problems with games

ann · Post by **ann** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:16 pm

I've bought my 12 yr old son a used laptop (Dell Latitude D600) and convinced him to use a version of linux unstead of Windows. The laptop came with PCLinuxOS release 2007.

He really wants to be able to run some of his games, so I used the Synaptic Package Manager to install Wine. The version available for PCLinuxOS was Wine 0.9.58.

So far I've tried two games, and I've struck out on both. The installations seems to go fine, but the games don't play.

Star Wars: The Video Game
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$ wine ./LegoStarwars.exe
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0xfffffffc at address 0x38c3bac (thread 0022), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0xfffffffc in 32-bit code (0x038c3bac).
Register dump:
.....

Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
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$wine ./QWC.exe
A gui pops up which says "A debugger has been detected: Unload the debugger and try again".

Thanks,
Ann

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:20 pm

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, ann <[email protected]> wrote:

I've bought my 12 yr old son a used laptop (Dell Latitude D600) and convinced him to use a version of linux unstead of Windows. The laptop came with PCLinuxOS release 2007.

He really wants to be able to run some of his games, so I used the Synaptic Package Manager to install Wine. The version available for PCLinuxOS was Wine 0.9.58.

Wow that's old...Upgrade.

So far I've tried two games, and I've struck out on both. The installations seems to go fine, but the games don't play.

Star Wars: The Video Game
------------------------------------
$ wine ./LegoStarwars.exe
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0xfffffffc at address 0x38c3bac (thread 0022), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0xfffffffc in 32-bit code (0x038c3bac).
Register dump:
.....

Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
------------------------------------
$wine ./QWC.exe
A gui pops up which says "A debugger has been detected: Unload the debugger and try again".

Sounds like some copy protection...Depending on what kind it is,
might/might now work in wine.

--
-Austin

Andrew Fenn · Post by **Andrew Fenn** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:28 pm

Star Wars: The Video Game
------------------------------------
$ wine ./LegoStarwars.exe

By the name I assume you mean the following game which according to
this link works past version 1.1.11

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=12828

Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
------------------------------------

The following link shows that this game works in 1.2

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=13082

Perhaps you should try using a much newer version of wine and
hopefully you'll have more luck.

Regards,
Andrew

ann · Post by **ann** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:16 pm

I'd like to try a newer version of Wine than the 0.9.58 available through through the Synaptic package manager, but couldn't find one for PCLinuxOS. Will one of the newer version built for another Linux release work?

- Ann

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:44 pm

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:16 PM, ann <[email protected]> wrote:

I'd like to try a newer version of Wine than the 0.9.58 available through through the Synaptic package manager, but couldn't find one for PCLinuxOS. Will one of the newer version built for another Linux release work?

- Ann

It's based off mandriva, so might try that.

--
-Austin

ann · Post by **ann** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:24 am

never mind - For a variety of reasons, I'm going to ditch the PCLinuxOS that is on the system and install Ubuntu instead. Thanks everyone.

- Ann