Same game, same Wine version, different distros.

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Ashboy
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Same game, same Wine version, different distros.

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I'm trying to wrap my head around something.. odd.

First I install a certain old 3d game in Wine (1.4.1). on Linux Mint Nadia. Game works. Then I remove Mint and install Xubuntu 13.04 + the same version of Wine on the same PC. Same game suddenly decides to not work. Mint and Ubuntu were both pretty much out-of-the-box when I installed Wine.

The key is that the only thing different is the Linux distro., but I just can't seem to figure out how that could possibly effect identical installations of Wine. Does anyone know where to start looking?
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Re: Same game, same Wine version, different distros.

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Different kernel, drivers, libraries...there are lots of things that could affect Wine.

Were you trying to use the old wineprefix in the new distro? If so, try reinstalling to a clean wineprefix in the new distro.
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Re: Same game, same Wine version, different distros.

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dimesio wrote:Different kernel, drivers, libraries...there are lots of things that could affect Wine.

Were you trying to use the old wineprefix in the new distro? If so, try reinstalling to a clean wineprefix in the new distro.
That did the trick! Can't thank you enough, I've been trying to crack this one for six hours straight. :)
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