The transition from Windows to Linux has been more or less painless for me, except for one thing; a game called Space Colony.
The WineDB lists it as Platiunum, Cedega lists it as something that can work, I had high hopes to get it working on at least one of these systems.
After I installed the program through WINE, it popped up the autorun menu and I clicked 'play' where I then got the error in the subject line; cannot find dvd/cd drive.
Please, help! My sanity depends on this game!
Cannot find DVD/CD drive...
Cannot find DVD/CD drive...
On 2009-02-10 (Tuesday) 12:49:06 you wrote:
winecfg go to Drives, click Add... to add your drive, specify correct path to its
mount point in Path field, click Advanced and set its Type to CD-ROM; then click
OK). Also make sure to cd to the directory where setup executable is located and
run it like this:
wine setup.exe
Alternatively you can use "wine start /unix" with full or relative UNIX path.
Instead of "setup.exe" use name of the file autorun supposed to run in Windows.
If still doesn't work please post terminal output including command you are
trying to run.
Please make sure that you configured your CD/DVD-ROM in winecfg as CD-ROM (inThe transition from Windows to Linux has been more or less painless for me,
except for one thing; a game called Space Colony.
The WineDB lists it as Platiunum, Cedega lists it as something that can
work, I had high hopes to get it working on at least one of these systems.
After I installed the program through WINE, it popped up the autorun menu
and I clicked 'play' where I then got the error in the subject line; cannot
find dvd/cd drive.
Please, help! My sanity depends on this game!
winecfg go to Drives, click Add... to add your drive, specify correct path to its
mount point in Path field, click Advanced and set its Type to CD-ROM; then click
OK). Also make sure to cd to the directory where setup executable is located and
run it like this:
wine setup.exe
Alternatively you can use "wine start /unix" with full or relative UNIX path.
Instead of "setup.exe" use name of the file autorun supposed to run in Windows.
If still doesn't work please post terminal output including command you are
trying to run.
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DanteAshton
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Cannot find DVD/CD drive...
On 2009-02-11 (Wednesday) 18:18:23 DanteAshton wrote:
works perfectly. Sometimes it works terribly or don't work at all. Of course
VMWare is nothing like Wine - it is an emulator and there are obvious
consequences like bad performance and bad integration in Linux desktop (you can
try Unity mode in VMWare as an partial workaround).
Please report bugs to http://bugs.winehq.org.Ok, got it working; bugs, though;
install and game work ok;
inbuilt editor fails to find any custom maps.
sound fails fifteen minutes into game.
You can try VMWare and its DirectX support. For some games and applications itI'm looking into the possiblty of running a virtualized Windows for other
apps that WINE dosent support, is this possible or is 3D right out the
window?
works perfectly. Sometimes it works terribly or don't work at all. Of course
VMWare is nothing like Wine - it is an emulator and there are obvious
consequences like bad performance and bad integration in Linux desktop (you can
try Unity mode in VMWare as an partial workaround).
