Game freezes, Steel Panthers

[Sarge]

Hi all,

Just interested to try this old gem on newest Linux Mint using Wine. Everything went ok, no problems at all. Gameplay is smooth unless at sudden, game freezes and after approx 5-10 seconds, the program shuts down. Another version is that suddenly, at instant, the game quits without any freeze.

In one case, when game did so, it opened wine explorer to backround, you know, the window where I can look my stuff.

The game is very simple, no fancy graphics, no 3d, only drawn images and sound. It uses DirectX and if I try to use windows 7 or 8 mode, in the options there is only GDI (dunno what that means) option only, when using XP mode etc. there is also directX to choose from.

The game is made to work from XP(maybe even earlier) to 8. I have tried all the modes and switched between GDI and DirectX with no result.

I downloaded Wine from Mint's own repo. Nothing more installed.

Anyone knows what could be the issue?

[Douglas Fredy]

Have you tried starting your game with emulated desktop.
In some cases when those freezing problems are related to integration with X server, emulated desktop helps.
I think its worth a try.

[Sarge]

Thanks for the tip. I will try it when I have time.