Help for a dummy running wine on OS X

[krazykarl1988]

Hi, the name's Karl,
First off let me confess that I am no computer guru, and merely muddled my way through building wine on my Intel Mac running OS 10.5.7

I've been running into a problem and can't find a thread about it. I've tried running a f2p game called battlefield heroes on a windows version of firefox. In wine cfg, I've told it to open firefox under windows xp, YET, when I try to run an installer (within the browser itself) to let me play, it tells me that "Your Windows version is not supported by this application". It should be. Can anyone help?

Karl

[krslynx]

A wild stab in the dark would be to run Terminal and:

$ wine winecfg

Then, within the dialogue box that appears you can select a different Windows version for all applications to install to. I hope this helps, if not then if you could explain more about exactly how you compiled wine, and exactly how you tried to install the application I could try to think of anything else that could problems.

Cheers,

-krslynx

[krazykarl1988]

A wild stab in the dark ... Cheers,

-krslynx

Thanks krslynx. Unfortunately, neither running the program under Windows XP or 98 (the OS suggested in the CnC 1.04 AppDB) works.

OK, when I setup wine I did the following, more or less to the letter:
Installed MacPorts and all extras needed (Xcode, Xquarts... etc). In Terminal, I entered sudo port install wine. It did its thing, taking about 40 minutes and when it finished I added a couple other things. First I added cabextract via sudo port install cabextract, and then installed winetricks via the same method. Using winetricks I installed all fonts, most codecs (the install all codecs fails at one of the programs, I don't remember which). I also installed vcrun6, firefox 3, and vb6run. I also tried to install vcrun 2005 and 2008, but neither worked, both processes aborted. I believe I installed the MS Installer (msi2) and gecko for ff. That's about all I can remember.

Other options I've selected under winecfg are: I have everything running in a desktop and my default os is xp (which I had to change with winetricks since XP and Vista did not appear in the drop down menu of the winecfg gui). I added three other things in regedit when I was trying to get battlefield heroes to work (which, incidentally, I never succeeded at). Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER:SOFTWARE:WINE:Direct3D: I added new keys for DirectDrawRenderer, OffscreenRendering and RenderTargetLock.

That's what I have right now. And to reiterate, I can't even install the stupid program. When I run Autorun.exe, I get a window with music and three button options: Install, Preview CD, and some other thing that I don't remember. If I hit install, X11 freezes, and wine has a fit. I can't even run winecfg again until I reboot the entire machine, yikes.

Ok, so there's a real mess for ya What do you suggest?

[krazykarl1988]

aaaaahhh... apologies, I thought I was replying to another post of mine... another post, another problem. Incidentally, I have tried what you suggested already and it actually did fix the os problem, except now the game will not launch. I click the PlayNow button and it brings me to the plugin install page and just sits there, taunting me, and promising that the game will be starting shortly.

[krslynx]

I've recently tried installing wine via Macports, however I had no luck actually running anything. I'd suggest downloading the source, and manually compiling in Terminal. Once you've done that, use MacPorts to download & install Freetype and Fontforge. However, make sure that you symlink everything to your wine installation, and set your PATH variable correctly.

Also, try doing everything step by step. I.e. from a clean wine installation, test the application - then try Fontforge, Freetype, & whatever else you've installed, if still no luck, then try the registry tricks. I've noticed that wine behaves very differently on OS X than on Linux, especially when it comes to changing registry keys.

Also, post up a log of your terminal output. If it's very long, then you can e-mail it to me and I'll have a look to see if there's any clues in there. (my [email protected]).

-krslynx