I have recently been trying to install a game made for Windows 95 titled Thief: The Dark Project. Unfortunately it seems to be having a problem with some sort of DirectX limitation. I am extremely inexperienced in dealing with wine so please if there is any more information I can give you, feel free to ask.
Upon activation on the install executable (wine setup.exe) the install process appears to begin only to disappoint me when the following error message arrives...
This product can not be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX (tm) limitation.
I've searched through the tested applications database and found the tests for this game and it seems as thought others have managed to get the game working. You can find the page here > Theif: The Dark Project. I have also searched the forums for something relative to this but I do believe my knowledge of wine is extremely limited, and thus hindering my ability to find a solution.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, BinaryBurnout <[email protected]> wrote:
I have recently been trying to install a game made for Windows 95 titled Thief: The Dark Project. Unfortunately it seems to be having a problem with some sort of DirectX limitation. I am extremely inexperienced in dealing with wine so please if there is any more information I can give you, feel free to ask.
Upon activation on the install executable (wine setup.exe) the install process appears to begin only to disappoint me when the following error message arrives...
Code:
This product can not be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX (tm) limitation.
Run 'winecfg' and set the windows version to windows 95.
Well thanks to austin987's advice I was able to install the game but upon execution I run across another error. Unfortunately I have no idea what it might mean.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:55 AM, BinaryBurnout <[email protected]> wrote:
Well thanks to austin987's advice I was able to install the game but upon execution I run across another error. Unfortunately I have no idea what it might mean.
Code:
fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open
I'm assuming that I need to play around with some drivers.
Any ideas?
What's the problem? You can ignore the output if stuff works...
austin987 wrote:'Doesn't run' is pretty ambiguous...does it show a black screen, exit
silently, not start at all, etc.? Is there any other output?
Hmm touche... "Doesn't run" is a bad description. Anyways, I use the command wine thief.exe then I receive the output and I'm afraid that is all. No screen flashes, no evidence of it trying to run besides the output in the terminal.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:51 AM, BinaryBurnout <[email protected]> wrote:
austin987 wrote:
'Doesn't run' is pretty ambiguous...does it show a black screen, exit
silently, not start at all, etc.? Is there any other output?
Hmm touche... "Doesn't run" is a bad description. Anyways, I use the command wine thief.exe then I receive the output and I'm afraid that is all. No screen flashes, no evidence of it trying to run besides the output in the terminal.