I installed winex 3.2 on my new gentoo system. everything was fine, i installed a few games without any trouble. I installed BF1942, and then downloaded and installed the 1.5 patch. the patch installed fine, and BF works, but now whenever i try to install any other game winex will only load the BF 1.5 patch installer (even if it has been deleted or BF completely uninstalled).

for example:
(after the 1.5 installation) I put in GTA: Vice City to install. type "winex3 setup.exe" and it will come up with the 1.5 patch installer instead. I hit next on the patch installer to continue, and it goes to screen two and then errors saying: "An error has occured during setup. Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and close other applications."

For some reason this only happens when i try to install games from a cd. I have tried Vice City, Max Payne 2, some others, and they all give me the same thing. I can, however, install BF1942 just fine. Anything else gives me the same problem.

I am thinking that this may be a temp folder that was never properly deleted, or something to do with temp files. But to be honest, I have no idea what is going on. I have installed BF and the 1.5 patch on mandrake without a problem.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

so, you're running mandrake & gentoo ?

try deleting everything that looks wine related in your /tmp folder. . .

Actually, im only running gentoo. What I meant to say was that I was running Mandrake and winex worked fine after the 1.5 patch. then I formatted and installed gentoo. So I am only running gentoo. Sorry, I should have made that clearer.

I looked in my /tmp folder and there was a folder called '.wine-gentoo' (gentoo being the username i guess). I deleted it, but wine still has the same problem. It didnt do anything.
I didnt see anything else related to wine in my /tmp directory.

I'm having the same problem. Can someone please help? I tried to install a game i got for christmas. I run the installer for a game, but the BF1942 patch comes up instead.

May it be because of the no-CD-patch I use? (Which I have to use, because the game wouldnt accept either of the originally bought CD's)

looks like i shouldnt buy that game
did you try reinstalling winex? try looking at
http://transgaming.com
at the game search page, look for bf1942, and look for your problem.

Timeturtle, please tell me if you find a solution to this. I dont care if I cant play Battlefield. I just want to be able to use WineX again

Classic problem. I've been there . Some games mess up winex registries. The solution is to search for everything related to winex, search after it at bin, usr, whatever with the command "locate" or "whereis" winex. Make sure to delete also your transgaming fake c drive.
Then, get some tools to help installing games always at /usr/local with separate registries and graphically

http://www.franksworld.net/wgm/

That would do it... hopefully...

Good luck!

P.S: there might be a way to do not need to delete everything, but I'm not aware of it

It seems like bf1942 through winex sucks
I installed the 1.1 patch of battlefield, any everytime I install a game through winex it says "Battlefield 1.1 patch setup starting", and then continues the normal install. It isn't a (big) problem, but I still think it should be fixed by transgaming.