Games Crash to Desktop after initial splash screen is shown

[gibsongirl]

I have wine 1.0 installed. On my Dell dimension b110. I have installed Civilization 3 and when I attempt to run it, I see the civ3 splash screen and it crashes to desktop. Likewise with CityofHeroes. I get the initial splash screen and the game crashes to desktop. Today I tried running Civ via terminal and I got : "jennifer@SuperCoolness:~$ wine start civ3.exe
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found

jennifer@SuperCoolness:~$"

I would appreciate all help I can get. Thank you. Sincerely, Gibsongirl

[vitamin]

wine start civ3.exe
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found

Looks like your Wine configuration is busted. Remove/rename ~/.wine directory and try again.

[gibsongirl]

And yet I can now load the city of heroes updater. the bottom of the updater is cut off. Since I can't figure out how to attach a screenshot,I am just going to describe the problem to you. The COH updater is a box and at the bottom of the updater on the right hand side are two buttons one above the other. Verify all Files and just below that OK. Since the bottom of the window is cut off, I can't click ok to check to see how well the game runs. so I guess my problem is more that:

I cannot make the wine window any larger.

I just go into synaptic and remove my wine install? When I reinstall wine won't it go to the same place?

[dimesio]

I just go into synaptic and remove my wine install? When I reinstall wine won't it go to the same place?

It's not Wine you were told to remove and reinstall, it's your Wine configuration settings.

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rm -rf ~/.wine

Note that this will remove everything you've installed in that wineprefix, so if there's something you want to save, rename it instead of deleting it.

After that, run the installer for your app again. A new ~/.wine will automatically be created.