playonlinux - FARCRY2 glitch

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:01 pm

Hello. I installed Far Cry 2 + the patch. I have suse 11.4 + KDE.

The run button doesn't do anything. Right after I installed it, I use the autorun feature to get far cry running. After I reboot, I can't get the feature to work again. The start menu has far cry references, but they give file not found. The correct location: media\FARCRY2, it's set at media\cdrom.

I have to attemped a reinstall and correct the media name. Then run it from menu that pops up. I have to eject the cd rom and reinsert it to get it to see the dvd rom.
install->dvd version->insert far cry disk->cd rom mounted->other->FARCRY2 then cancel then try autorun again and follow the prompts.

This takes about 5-25 times to get the game to run. All menus say file not found even when it's fully installed. :p

After using play in linux APP. How do manually run it in wine?

Need help. Thanks.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:41 pm

If the problem is simply the mount point, just change it.

I'd go to terminal and do:
mount
//This gets a list of what's mounted where. Find what's mounted at /media/cdrom or whatever instead of /media/FARCRY2. It's probably /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 or /dev/cdrom or something like that.
//Then do:
sudo umount [/dev/sr0 or whatever it is]
//That just unmounted it.
sudo mkdir /media/FARCRY2
//That makes that folder. We're going to mount it to that folder.
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/FARCRY2
//That just made the contents of the disc be displayed in that folder.

Ok, now it's mounted where it wants it!

As far as how to run the game manually with WINE, you can navigate to /media/FARCRY2, right click the game launcher and tell it to run with the WINE program launcher. If that option isn't there, open terminal, type "wine" with a space after it and drag what you want to run in wine after it. The hit enter.

There are folders that contain a drive_c folder that WINE uses as a virtual C:\ drives. Also in the folder are registry keys. These folders are WINE prefixes. Each prefix is a separate "WINE world".

When you run something through wine in terminal, you can specify the prefix. For example: WINEPREFIX=$HOME/farcry2 wine [path to executable].

The default prefix is $HOME/.wine, a hidden folder. Whenever you don't specify the wine prefix, the default it used. I should say that that is the default default. If you compile WINE from source, you can pick the default WINE prefix.

So if PlayOnLinx put the game in a prefix other than the default, and you don't specify the prefix to run the launcher, it wil go to the default prefix and not find the game.

Also know that you are running the launcher off the disc which further runs the game executable in the program files folder. You aren't directly running the game executable.

Also know that it is possible that simply typing "wine" in terminal won't do it. It's actully looking in /usr/bin for a shortcut or actual executable named "wine". If the wine executable is named something else, or if the shortcut to it is named something else, you'll need to use that. For example, when I have more than one version of WINE I have a shorcut named wine1.3.22 or whatever. So I have to say "WINEPREFIX=[prefix path] wine1.3.22 [path to executable]" or something like that.

I don't think PlayOnLinux would make life hard on you like in the above to you. If they really wanted to mess with you, they could put the wine executable off in some folder somewhere with no shortcut in /usr/bin, and you'd have to write the full path to it (or you could get ahead and make a shortcut their named "wine").

Cheers,
Jake

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:05 pm

SpawnHappyJake wrote:If the problem is simply the mount point, just change it.

I'd go to terminal and do:
mount
//This gets a list of what's mounted where. Find what's mounted at /media/cdrom or whatever instead of /media/FARCRY2. It's probably /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 or /dev/cdrom or something like that.
//Then do:
sudo umount [/dev/sr0 or whatever it is]
//That just unmounted it.
sudo mkdir /media/FARCRY2
//That makes that folder. We're going to mount it to that folder.
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/FARCRY2
//That just made the contents of the disc be displayed in that folder.

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umount /dev/sr1/                     (superuser mode)

umount: /media/FARCRY2: device is busy.                                                                                                                                    (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

Playonlinux is looking for media/cdrom/ I have media/FARCRY2/

I get on autorun

Line #1: *
Line #2: other

If scans for autorun and finds it I get: "farcry has been found."

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:33 pm

Oh. I'm backwards. I thought it usually mounts at /media/cdrom and you want it to mount at /media/FARCRY2. Apparently it's the other way around.

The other way of fixing this is to go into winecfg and have it look at /media/FARCRY2 as, say, drive D:. And might as well have it look at /media/cdrom as drive E: or whatever in case it gets mounted there.

Go to terminal and type "wine winecfg.exe" and go to the drives tab (a window will pop up). You'll see what I mean. You can throw a prefix in front of that to set the settings for a certain prefix.

Cheers,
Jake

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:28 pm

This is what I see when I do autorun:

playonlinux->tools->autorun->forward->

"a cd rom has been found on your drive.
media/FARCRY2/autorun.exe
name:unknown"->

"no setup location was found in autorun.inf
[In an existing prefix(add-on)] *selected
[in a new prefix]->

Choose the prefix:
[FarCry22]
[wine]

If I pick wine, I get a menu. Play is greyed out. Install is not.
If I select FarCry2, the game will run as normal.

Usually nothing happens, I get "* or other".

If I right click on farcry2 in media/FARCRY2/, I get a game menu with play greyed out and install black.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:42 pm

On 7/4/11 12:28 PM, Lord_Valarian wrote:

This is what I see when I do autorun:

playonlinux->tools->autorun->forward->

"a cd rom has been found on your drive.
media/FARCRY2/autorun.exe
name:unknown"->

"no setup location was found in autorun.inf
[In an existing prefix(add-on)] *selected
[in a new prefix]->

Choose the prefix:
[FarCry22]
[wine]

If I pick wine, I get a menu. Play is greyed out. Install is not.
If I select FarCry2, the game will run as normal.

Usually nothing happens, I get "* or other".

If I right click on farcry2 in media/FARCRY2/, I get a game menu with play greyed out and install black.

This appears to be a POL issue and needs to be addressed to them.

James

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:57 am

Let's make this easy. Forget about PlayOnLinx. Make sure your WINE is either the latest or one behind by going to terminal and doing "wine --version" and update it if necessary.
Just make a launcher or a bash script on your desktop to run the game executable located within the program files folder in the prefix rather than relying on autorun.

Cheers,
Jake

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:14 pm

SpawnHappyJake wrote:Let's make this easy. Forget about PlayOnLinx. Make sure your WINE is either the latest or one behind by going to terminal and doing "wine --version" and update it if necessary.
Just make a launcher or a bash script on your desktop to run the game executable located within the program files folder in the prefix rather than relying on autorun.

Cheers,
Jake

OK, so I think I found the right place play on linux put them. The saved files are in media/farcry2/

version: wine-1.3.12

/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/FarCry2/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Far Cry 2/bin>

What line to use? Play on linux never created a shortcut.

WINEPREFIX=[prefix path] wine1.3.22 [path to executable]

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:48 pm

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Lord_Valarian
<[email protected]> wrote:

SpawnHappyJake wrote:
Let's make this easy. Forget about PlayOnLinx. Make sure your WINE is either the latest or one behind by going to
terminal and doing "wine --version" and update it if necessary.
Just make a launcher or a bash script on your desktop to run the game executable located within the program files folder
in the prefix rather than relying on autorun.

Cheers,
Jake
OK, so I think I found the right place play on linux put them. The saved files are in media/farcry2/

version: wine-1.3.12

/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/FarCry2/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Far Cry 2/bin>

What line to use? Play on linux never created a shortcut.

WINEPREFIX=[prefix path] wine1.3.22 [path to executable]

Try this:

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which wine

Should return /usr/bin/wine

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cd /usr/bin
ls -l wine

Should return that the file is an executable

-rwxr-xr-x root <something> <file size> wine

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cd '/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/FarCry2/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Far
Cry 2/bin'
wine <name of Far Cry 2 executable>

That should start Far Cry 2.

James

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:51 pm

If I change to '/home/[username]]', it still says directory not found..

That is a distribution problem. Not all distributions use /home for where they locate user files. What Linux/UNIX distribution are you using, again?

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cd '/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/FarCry2/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Far
Cry 2/bin'

>dir

doesn't list the hidden files.

And it should not. You'll have to use the UNIX list (ls) command with the all (-a) option like this

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ls -a

This will list all of the files to include the current and parent directories.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:49 pm

On 7/12/11 2:51 PM, Lord_Valarian wrote:

That gives directory not found. If I change to '/home/[username]]', it
still says directory not found..

This appears to be a distribution related problem. Not all Linux/UNIX
releases place user files in a specific directory under the /home directory.

Code:
cd '/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/FarCry2/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Far
Cry 2/bin'

Does this work?

dir
doesn't list the hidden files.

The DOS based dir<ectory> command as it was ported to Linux does not do
this. You will need to use the UNIX ls (list) command with the -a (all)
option to see hidden (.<something>) files. As a warning this also lists
the current (.) and parent (..) directory information as well if you use
the -al (all long) option.

The program executable should be listed just using the dir or ls command
as <something>.exe

James

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:30 am

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/home/username/>  cd /.PlayOnLinux/

I checked to see if it would change to one directory at a time. Gives file not found?? 'ls -a' shows it.

Do I need to be in superuser mode to run it? No, right?

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:04 am

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:49 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:

The DOS based dir<ectory> command as it was ported to Linux does not do
this.

Yes it does.

dir -a

does more or less the same as ls -a. In fact it accepts most (all?) of
the same options as ls, though some of the defaults may differ, e.g. on
my Fedora system 'dir' doesn't colour directory entries while 'ls' does,
but 'dir --color' gives identical output to 'ls'.

Martin

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:32 am

Lord_Valarian: you've already been told that PlayOnLinux is not supported here. If you have problems with it, ask on their forum. If you want help here, reinstall your game using plain Wine.

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