Ever 17: The Out of Infinity crashes on Wine

[GarrettR]

I have been trying to get the visual novel, Ever17, to run on Wine. I will click it and it will ask me if I want to run it as fullscreen or windowed. I choose my setting that I want. However, whenever I do, there will be the outline of a window and an error box stating, "ever17PC_us.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." If there is anyone who knows how to solve this problem who is also a visual novel-er as well, please tell me what I need to do to fix it. I am running Debian 7.8 Wheezy. Wine version is 1.4.1. Thanks in advance.

[dimesio]

Try running it in an emulated virtual desktop (select it on the Graphics tab in winecfg).

You should also upgrade Wine; 1.4.1 is no longer supported.

[GarrettR]

Running it in the virtual desktop helped a little bit. However, it freezes after it shows the Hirameki international logo. I cannot upgrade from 1.4.1 on Wheezy. It will only let me go up to 1.4.1. I ran a sudo aptitude upgrade wine, and it just upgraded some libs, but running wine --version still shows wine 1.4.1. I will have to install Sid in order to get the latest version of wine. I don't feel comfortable doing that, though, because Sid is unstable. I don't even want to use Jessie until it is stable.