nothing will work now

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:07 pm

it was working fine for ubuntu 9.10 but it crapped out on me for 10.04. now i can't even play my games that are even designed got ubuntu. please help

Post by **dimesio** » Thu May 20, 2010 7:51 am

mikekleman wrote:it was working fine for ubuntu 9.10 but it crapped out on me for 10.04. now i can't even play my games that are even designed got ubuntu. please help

Terminal output? http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:48 pm

does it have to be installed to wine? i downloaded the game via torrent so it only ran with wine but was not installed

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:26 am

mikekleman wrote:does it have to be installed to wine? i downloaded the game via torrent so it only ran with wine but was not installed

Legally, I hope?

I'm not sure about this, but in your first post, did you say that even Linux games don't work (properly) anymore? In that case, there might be something wrong with your video system, try getting the latest graphics drivers for your video card.

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Mon May 31, 2010 2:18 am

do you have a site to get them from?

nww02 · Post by **nww02** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:27 am

Since upgrading, I also installed PlayOnLinux, which upped Wine to 1.2.. Since then, I've been unable to run about 80% of my apps on Wine, whether newly installed, or previously installed. Everything just seems to die with no error.

I downgraded back to Wine 1.0, and everything started working again. I re-upgraded to Wine 1.2 without PlayOnLinux, and again, everything stopped working.

I wiped my .wine folder, and re-created everything, then re-installed some apps and games.. No joy, usually with no error, often with D3D errors, PixelFormat errors and so on. Downgraded to Wine1.0 again, and everything starts working.

*shrugs* It seems clear to me that (as far as games are concerned) wine 1.2 just don't cut it yet.

What I have:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running on an HP Pavilion DV6330ea and an Acer business PC.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:20 pm

nww02 <[email protected]> wrote at Jun 9, 2010 8:27 AM:

Since upgrading, I also installed PlayOnLinux, which upped Wine to 1.2.. Since then,
I've been unable to run about 80% of my apps on Wine, whether newly installed, or
previously installed. Everything just seems to die with no error.

I downgraded back to Wine 1.0, and everything started working again. I re-upgraded to
Wine 1.2 without PlayOnLinux, and again, everything stopped working.

I wiped my .wine folder, and re-created everything, then re-installed some apps and
games.. No joy, usually with no error, often with D3D errors, PixelFormat errors and so
on. Downgraded to Wine1.0 again, and everything starts working.

What happens when you try to run the 'broken' applications from a terminal session?

The FAQ page has a link at the top on how to run from the terminal and how to generate a log file.

James McKenzie

nww02 · Post by **nww02** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:30 pm

James Mckenzie wrote: What happens when you try to run the 'broken' applications from a terminal session?

Hi There,
Well, a variety of things, mostly video related. Before I start, let me just say that on this machine I have successfully got Directx9.0c installed. dxdiag runs, and DirectX games run just fine.. All under Wine 1.0. All these errors are found after doing the exact same process to install Dx9 in Wine 1.2

DXSETUP.exe: Direct X just dies with an error "DirectX is already at a higher level". When deleting lots of DLLs, it crashes halfway through the install with an "Unknown exception".

dxdiag.exe : just dies silently when trying to run Direct3D test (solved in wine1.0 by changing the "ddrawex.dll to builtin, contrary to all the FAQs).

Warcraft3 : silent death.. Hangs, I have to Kill -9 WINE

Unreal Tournament: D3D death

Rosetta Stone: Just won't start. Exits immediately.

Pharaoh : Starts, gets past the intro movie and then hangs. I have to Kill WINE.EXE to stop it.

I mainly use Wine to play old games.. When I downgrade to wine1.0, with NO other change, all the games and apps start working.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:39 pm

nww02 <[email protected]> wrote at Jun 10, 2010 1:30 PM

James Mckenzie wrote:
What happens when you try to run the 'broken' applications from a terminal session?

Hi There,
Well, a variety of things, mostly video related. Before I start, let me just say
that on this machine I have successfully got Directx9.0c installed. dxdiag runs, and
DirectX games run just fine.. All under Wine 1.0. All these errors are found after
doing the exact same process to install Dx9 in Wine 1.2

DXSETUP.exe: Direct X just dies with an error "DirectX is already at a higher level".
When deleting lots of DLLs, it crashes halfway through the install with an "Unknown
exception".

Did you do what I asked? Apparently not. I wanted you to run the programs from a terminal session and provide a log file back to us so we could provide further assistance. Windows does this naturally, and this is a 'to do' project for Wine. However, the process is described in the Wine FAQ on how to run a program in a terminal session and to produce a log file. Upload the log file to a site like pastebin.com and then provide us with the URL.

Also, PLEASE INSTALL TO A FRESH WINE PREFIX. There are many, many changes between Wine 1.0.1 and 1.2-rc2 that cause things to break if you attempt to use an old wine prefix with the new wine (sort of what happens when you put new wine in an old wineskin, it bursts, believe me.)

Please do run the programs and create log files so we can look at them.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

nww02 · Post by **nww02** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:48 pm

A lot of things crash with

err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"LMIInfo" failed to load

I just re-upgraded to Wine1.2 and dxdiag now gives....

err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"LMIInfo" failed to load
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dxdiag.exe": Module not found
nick@nick-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32$ err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -a
err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -r

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:49 pm

Delete or rename ~/.wine and reinstall your games. Do not install directx; Wine has its own implementation, and installing native is more likely to cause problems than solve them. None of the AppDB entries for the games you mentioned say anything about needing native dlls.

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:18 pm

none of this stuff helps! i want to play stepmania again but not even the binary file works anymore. it was made for ubuntu. ubuntu 10.04 is screwing everything up. now wine won't work for me either on games that used to work. i don't know what to do about it

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:01 pm

mikekleman wrote:none of this stuff helps! i want to play stepmania again but not even the binary file works anymore. it was made for ubuntu. ubuntu 10.04 is screwing everything up. now wine won't work for me either on games that used to work. i don't know what to do about it

If native Linux games aren't working either, it's not a Wine issue. The most likely culprit is your graphics drivers. Try reinstalling them. If that doesn't fix it, you need to ask for help on the Ubuntu forum.

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:41 pm

can someone instant message me or something? i haven't really figured out all of this ubuntu stuff. i have an aol and msn. mikekleman@(aol or hotmail).com. i went on the stepmania site and downloaded the linux binary. the stuff loads but nothing else happens. i can provide screenshots as well

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:28 pm

mikekleman wrote:

can someone instant message me or something? i haven't really figured out all of this ubuntu stuff. i have an aol and msn. mikekleman@(aol or hotmail).com. i went on the stepmania site and downloaded the linux binary. the stuff loads but nothing else happens. i can provide screenshots as well

Mike Kleman:

You were told to go to the Ubuntu forums as your installation of Linux
is not correct.

This area is strictly for Wine assistance. We cannot help you with this
situation as Wine supports not only Linux, but MacOSX, Free/OpenBSD, and
Solaris (and a few other UNIX/Linux combos as well...)

Thank you.

James McKenzie

mikekleman · Post by **mikekleman** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:28 pm

i know this, but i would like to run touhou as well and it is only for windows. is there a was that i can get wine to be able to display japanese characters? that's what pops up when i try to run any touhou game now. i also tried running stepmania in wine. the installation didn't really work and won't let me play either

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:04 pm

On a terminal:

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LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 wine touhou.exe

As for all your other problems, they'll probably be magically fixed once your distribution is actually installed properly. So either try re-burning and reinstalling Ubuntu, or ask on the Ubuntu forums.