I'm new to linux and I need help
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I'm new to linux and I need help
I trying to play my games Oblivion and Spore. I almost got oblivion to work but when I click create new game it freezes and forces me to quit it, not to mention it's really slow and skips. It's not my computer because it exceeds the requirements by far. And then spore won't even start.
Re: I'm new to linux and I need help
That's not enough information to help you. What distro, wine version, graphics card/driver? Post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminalMindrifter wrote:I trying to play my games Oblivion and Spore. I almost got oblivion to work but when I click create new game it freezes and forces me to quit it, not to mention it's really slow and skips. It's not my computer because it exceeds the requirements by far. And then spore won't even start.
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I think then that you should get familiar with the very basics : http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/index
I'm new to linux and I need help
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Mindrifter <[email protected]> wrote:
Have you opened a gnome-terminal?
Inside gnome-terminal do you know how to change directory to the
folder that your application is installed in.
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
Should get you to your Program Files.
Inside that you will need to cd to the folder containing the
executable of the program you want to run.
John
Lets start at the most basic level.The example confuse me
Have you opened a gnome-terminal?
Inside gnome-terminal do you know how to change directory to the
folder that your application is installed in.
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
Should get you to your Program Files.
Inside that you will need to cd to the folder containing the
executable of the program you want to run.
John
The example:Mindrifter wrote:The example confuse me
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cd '.wine/drive_c/Games/Tron'
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wine tron.exe
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Google the error message, and you'll find instructions for removing it, e.g.
http://www.fettesps.com/how-to-remove-t ... -terminal/
http://www.fettesps.com/how-to-remove-t ... -terminal/
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Look in the program directories and figure out which file is the main executable. Often it's the name of the app (e.g., spore.exe), but some games have launchers with names like "launch.exe" or "play.exe." I don't play either game, so I can't tell you; you're going to have to figure it out. Once you do, cd to the program directory and run it with the wine command.Mindrifter wrote:So now I know how to get into the program files and games but I don't know how to run the games through the terminal
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So this is what I put in the terminal
josiah@josiah-desktop ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/SPORE/Sporebin $ wine start 'SporeApp.exe'
And this is what came up
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
josiah@josiah-desktop ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/SPORE/Sporebin $ fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
Then under that it said
Allocating 16 x 16 radeon RBO (pitch 16)
200 times with
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x286fc04,0x00000000), stub!
every twenty times but the numbers between the two x's changed ever time. and on the second "stub!" line it said
fixme:psapi:EnumPageFilesA (0x1de88d0, 0x290982c) stub
fixme:psapi:EnumPageFilesA (0x1de88d0, 0x28d4148) stub
And then at the very end it said
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x286f200,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:winhttp:request_set_option WINHTTP_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS unimplemented (00003100)
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x001d0000 at address 0xf7546c96 (thread 001a), starting debugger...
^C
josiah@josiah-desktop ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/SPORE/Sporebin $ wine start 'SporeApp.exe'
And this is what came up
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
josiah@josiah-desktop ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/SPORE/Sporebin $ fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
Then under that it said
Allocating 16 x 16 radeon RBO (pitch 16)
200 times with
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x286fc04,0x00000000), stub!
every twenty times but the numbers between the two x's changed ever time. and on the second "stub!" line it said
fixme:psapi:EnumPageFilesA (0x1de88d0, 0x290982c) stub
fixme:psapi:EnumPageFilesA (0x1de88d0, 0x28d4148) stub
And then at the very end it said
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x286f200,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:winhttp:request_set_option WINHTTP_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS unimplemented (00003100)
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x001d0000 at address 0xf7546c96 (thread 001a), starting debugger...
^C
Instead of
wine start 'SporeApp.exe'
you can just do
wine SporeApp
Spore looks kind of tricky to run, see
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=13652
Oblivion looks a bit tricky, too, see
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=7506
Being new to Wine, you should probably start with some app
that's rated Platinum in the appdb before tackling less well polished ones.
wine start 'SporeApp.exe'
you can just do
wine SporeApp
Spore looks kind of tricky to run, see
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=13652
Oblivion looks a bit tricky, too, see
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=7506
Being new to Wine, you should probably start with some app
that's rated Platinum in the appdb before tackling less well polished ones.
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Yeah, both Spore and Oblivion are popular enough that the
rough edges will probably be smoothed off sometime...
but who knows when.
Try a platinum rated game (there are a bunch of downloadable free ones),
once you have that working, try a gold rated game,
once you have that working, try a silver rated game.
And then come back to Oblivion and Spore and try following their
recipes.
rough edges will probably be smoothed off sometime...
but who knows when.
Try a platinum rated game (there are a bunch of downloadable free ones),
once you have that working, try a gold rated game,
once you have that working, try a silver rated game.
And then come back to Oblivion and Spore and try following their
recipes.
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That's not off-topic at all, if the topic is "how the heck do I start using wine",
which I think it is!
So, you need to either mark that file executable, or run it from
the commandline with wine instead of double-clicking on it.
To mark it executable, do
chmod +x /home/josiah/.cache/.fr-yzjVug/Setup-BGT.exe
But maybe we should start even simpler. How about Plants Vs. Zombies?
Try this:
wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wisotool
sh wisotool plantsvszombies
cd ~/.wine/drive_c
wine cmd /c run-plantsvszombies.bat
Does that work? If so, try running
sh wisotool
and using it to install any of the games marked with [download].
See
http://wiki.winehq.org/wisotool
for more info about the wisotool game downloader.
which I think it is!
So, you need to either mark that file executable, or run it from
the commandline with wine instead of double-clicking on it.
To mark it executable, do
chmod +x /home/josiah/.cache/.fr-yzjVug/Setup-BGT.exe
But maybe we should start even simpler. How about Plants Vs. Zombies?
Try this:
wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wisotool
sh wisotool plantsvszombies
cd ~/.wine/drive_c
wine cmd /c run-plantsvszombies.bat
Does that work? If so, try running
sh wisotool
and using it to install any of the games marked with [download].
See
http://wiki.winehq.org/wisotool
for more info about the wisotool game downloader.
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I'm new to linux and I need help
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mindrifter <[email protected]> wrote:
can not be replaced by microsoft dlls. However some parts of directx
are installable using winetricks.
John
You usually do not install directX because wine provides support thatA thing kept popping up about a dxdllreg.exe error. I already know this is directx because I've tried to fix it (and I thought I had) before. so I did the wine tricks thing ad the vcrun6 thing, but how do I install directx?
can not be replaced by microsoft dlls. However some parts of directx
are installable using winetricks.
John
Re: I'm new to linux and I need help
Actually, this specific error is kind of a special case. You started out having installed Oblivion, right? Well, Oblivion installs DirectX, or at least that dxdllreg.exe thing. You'll find it in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32, I believe.John Drescher wrote:On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mindrifter <[email protected]> wrote:You usually do not install directX because wine provides support thatA thing kept popping up about a dxdllreg.exe error. I already know this is directx because I've tried to fix it (and I thought I had) before. so I did the wine tricks thing ad the vcrun6 thing, but how do I install directx?
can not be replaced by microsoft dlls. However some parts of directx
are installable using winetricks.
John
In any case, this supplemental exe doesn't run under Wine, and in fact you will get that error in any application you try to run, because dxdllreg.exe is a "system file" (being part of directx) and so acts globally, even though it was installed by one particular application.
You may rename it, or throw it out without consequence, and in my case that (throwing it out) has always resolved the issue of the error message (it goes away).
You do not need to install directx in its entirety via winetricks, and in fact you should not do so.
Hope this helps,
Holly