Wine .Net 3 or 4

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Galo
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Wine .Net 3 or 4

Post by Galo »

Hi guys,

I have been struggling with this problem for almost a week now and I have looked EVERYWHERE for a solution, literally. A quick background on me first, I am the COO of a company and we are licensed to bring back a very awesome game to be released on both the PC and Mac. As this is still a surprise I can't talk much about it, but it's big. The only problem is though it's a very old game and it's source-code is not available, so we got the game running using Wine. The game's initial launcher does not support the new graphics setting we have today, so we built our own custom launcher for the PC to tweak the correct settings for the users. Our launcher uses .NET 4.0 libraries to make some of the complex injections into code we are doing, possible.

So the game is running fine inside Wine, but I can't get our launcher to work with it which means OSX players can't adjust their settings like our Windows audience can. And that's a bummer because as an OSX fanatic I really want to show gamers you CAN get the same on both platforms if developers just try hard enough.

Unfortunately I ran against a big wall, I can't get our launcher to work, because no matter what I tried I cant get anything over .NET 2.0 to get installed. I tried installing .Net 3.0 but it freezes on the install window. I have tried all the suggestions and everything I could find, so I was hoping someone who managed to get .Net 3.0 or even 4.0 to work, can give me a hand. It's much appreciated and as a reward I can give you Steam keys to the game(s) we are bringing back ;)

Thanks!
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Re: Wine .Net 3 or 4

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Use winetricks to install .NET 3.0 or 4.0. Note that .NET 4.0 doesn't fully install or work in Wine, so your launcher still may not work.
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Re: Wine .Net 3 or 4

Post by Galo »

Thank you for your reply Dimesio, I've tried installing it with Winetricks, but it keeps failing. Net 3.0 gets stuck at installer screen while Net 4.0 crashes. Has anyone been able to get it to work on OSX at all?
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