Various Doubts About Wine

Randall Flagg · Post by **Randall Flagg** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:07 am

Well, I'm using Hardy Heron from the last release of Ubuntu, and everything runs almost perfect with wine ...

But I'm Having problems when I'm trying games.. Dunno, for example, I've tried Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and got a little problem (mostly for my video card that is a little old

).
The First problem came with the error of the installer of the game, that sayed: You need Windows Media Player 6 or above to run this installation..

Ok, cool, so I installed Windows Media 9. But There was another problem that happend mi allot with games on Wine.
Becouse every game comes in the default 800x600 resolution, the game starts like that, but if for any reason (call it "X") the game Is having trouble running, then, (still in 800x600 res) go back to my ubuntu desktop, my resolution stays in 800x600, even thou I use regular at home 1280x1024...

In some cases, like it happen to me yestarday, I cant even use mouse, and in all the cases this happends to me, I have to press Control+Alt+BackSpace...

theres no problem resenting the video setting like that, but I don't think is the solution to that kind of problem.
Ah! almost forget, triying to go back to my normal resolution, I've tried to close every .exe aplicattion running, and everything conserning Wine throw the monitor system..

Any clue?

Then I have a doubt...
I have two HDDs, one have the ubuntu, and the other have windows xp(need this to run the phothosop cs3

..)
Shouldn't it run better the wine if I copy all the C:\WINDOWS directory to the wine drive_c directory?
just an idea...

I've tried that really in gutsy, and I aaaaalmost got the PS cs3 to run..!
But got stuck with the beggining splash (and at the back the PS window well rendered)

Well, thanks in advance

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:23 am

Then I have a doubt...
I have two HDDs, one have the ubuntu, and the other have windows xp(need this to run the phothosop cs3 ..)
Shouldn't it run better the wine if I copy all the C:\WINDOWS directory to the wine drive_c directory?
just an idea...

No. Do not do that. This would most likely break most applications on wine.

Instead consult appdb.winehq.org for your particular application and
then if you have problems ask questions here.

John

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:26 pm

[quote]But I'm Having problems when I'm trying games.. Dunno, for
example, I've tried Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and
got a little problem (mostly for my video card that is a little old Sad ).[/quote]

From the appdb this game is currently rated garbage, that can explain your problems.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=5957

[quote]Becouse every game comes in the default 800x600 resolution, the
game starts like that, but if for any reason (call it "X") the game Is
having trouble running, then, (still in 800x600 res) go back to my
ubuntu desktop, my resolution stays in 800x600, even thou I use
regular at home 1280x1024...[/quote]

You can use xrandr to switch your resolution back.
Type in a terminal:
[code]xrandr -s 1280x1024[/code]
And it will (should) switch your resolution back.
You can also make a shortcut for the command if it appen to you a lot. The best would be that these "troubles" doesn't occur in the first place ^^[/quote]

Randall Flagg · Post by **Randall Flagg** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:09 am

thanks...

I'll try that code Tlarhices...
and well, I wanted to try in hardy and with the new updates of wine Call of Cthulhu

thanks!