Problem running a game from NTFS drive

[tatsumaru]

Hello.
I'm new to Linux but I love it and I'm looking to use Windows as little as possible. This of course means some Wine use.

I have a favourite Bridge (the card game) tutorial that is available only for Windows so I decided to try whether it will run on Linux. It's already installed on my NTFS drive so I figured I'd just mount C: to a "cdrive" in my home directory and run it with wine from there.

Now here's the tricky part. If I go run the exe by right-clicking it, it doesn't work well. This is what happens:


The screen is not supposed to be blue and inactive.

If I try:

wine cdrive/"Program Files (x86)"/"Learn to Play Bridge"/ltpb.exe

The same thing happens.

The only way it would work is if I first type:

cd cdrive/"Program Files (x86)"/"Learn to Play Bridge"/

And then:

wine ltpb.exe

When I do that everything falls into place:



However this method is not very practical let alone sophisticated. I have no idea whatsoever why there is a difference to running wine once in the directory. I'd really appreciate a way to create a desktop shortcut that does it all in one click and also an explanation as to why wine works better once in the directory. Thanks in advance.

[dimesio]

Pointing Wine to a Windows partition is neither recommended nor supported. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-878d4f6 ... a4a4cafa13

[tatsumaru]

Well Ok, I installed it again to home/"user"/

But the problem is still the same. I need to navigate to the directory in the terminal and then run "wine ltpb.exe" otherwise it just pops up a defective version of the game.

[dimesio]

Navigating to the program directory is the recommended way to start apps from the command line; many Windows apps expect to be started from the program's working directory.

You could try

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wine start /unix /path/to/program

(use the full path to the program).

[Chiitoo]

Teegrins, tatsumaru!

What comes to shortcuts, I often set the 'work path' for applications that do not work 'outside' their 'root', and that works for me.
I imagine most, if not all DEs/WMs should have the possibility to easily achieve this.

I hope this helps~