Which post (link?). I did try installing COD4 and I was able to get it loaded. Then I installed the 1.4 update and copied the nocd patch over into the directory. Then I tried to play the game and I was getting several video card errors basically saying your video card won't work.

I know it has something to do with DirectX not fully being installed correctly. It worked before with the directx spinning box on a previous version. Also one thing I noted was that wine is now at version 0.9.52. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Before I get hammered for my system, here are the specs:
Asus M2N-E motherboard
AMD x64 5600+ dual CPU
2 gig OCZ platinum DDR2 PC2-6400
EVGA 8600GTS superclocked Nvidia video card
Audegy 2 gamer sound card
Cooler Master 550 watt power supply

Our computers are close I have a 4200+ instead of a 5600+ but other than that identical. I am useing wine 0.9.52 right now and it works better for me that 0.9.49. here is the link again

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ly/027437.html

Both of those are already installed. I am going to wipe the .wine and wine-git folders and start fresh. Do I need to do a uninstall of wine? if so how do I do that. Still learning the linux way. Trying to move away from windows.

i'd recommend it. simply running

sudo make uninstall

wine in the wine-git directory will remove it.

Ok I got uninstalled, but before I go through this again, I am running the 64 bit version of fedora 8, are you running the 64 bit version of your distro? I wonder if that is causing an issue?

I don't use the 64-bit version. sure my CPU can use it but the support isn't there and there isn't that great of a performance boost.

Well I think I found that the issue is I am using 64 bit. I saw on another post that you can't build wine (opengl32) with 64bit libs. I will have to think about reinstalling back to the 32 bit version.

well that's too bad. That is why I stay away. I don't want to run into this kind of thing. Hope it turns out well for you.

This page on the wine website looks like it explains how to build wine on fedora 5 6 7 and 8. http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit. Look towards the bottom of the page. There are guides for other distributions too.

Thanks for the info Jimmy. I decided to go back to 32 bit for now. I originally wanted to use the 64 bit for video processing. I did some testing last night and did not notice a big difference. Since the os was just installed, I just decided to save a few files and throw the 32 bit version back on the PC. Most of the software I currently use is 32 bit anyway so maybe I will wait for Fedora 9 to move to 64 bit again. Hopefully more programs will be 64 bit by then.

So I will try again as I almost have everything else installed that I use. So I will post my progress.

OK I have everything installed and working great. I was able to play COD4 as well as all my steam games without any issues. COD4 is still a bit slow when there is a lot of action (movement of several people) on the screen, but I have not fine tuned the video settings yet. Thanks to all the help from everyone esp snares for posting and keeping the thread going with help and quick responses.

A few notes:
So some of the differences I have seen with the 32bit os and wine version I could see was the directx cube properly working when doing the 3d test. Also another thing I noticed is the 32bit wine has both ALSA and OSS sound options whereas when I was trying wine in the 64bit os I only saw OSS.

Hi! The last few months I've been having lots and lots of fun learning Linux, and even though I come from a professional techie Windows background (well, originally a child of the 8bit era... ah, my old C64...) I've found it all quite challenging...

And in the spirit of giving something back to the community... I've compiled what knowledge I have gleaned here and from the official WINE site and compiled together a guide for Call of Duty 4 on Ubuntu 7.10 / Fedora Core 8 – WINE 0.9.53:

http://www.perceptualmotion.co.uk/linux.html

Please take a look as it details all of the information I currently have about running COD4, including the part about Steam (if you do a fresh download of wine-git, it breaks Steam games, although I have since found a fix... it's all in the guide).

You can download the ODT or PDF version and please feel free to reuse any parts of the guide you wish, just let me know if you find it useful.

Thanks to everyone here who (knowingly or not) helped me run COD4 on my Linux box better than my mate could on his Windows box... Lol!

I haven't had any luck with wine yet. I installed a prebuilt .9.53&.9.54 with no luck on either - just running the iw3sp.exe+nocd from a windows partition. It complains about glow, but disables it, and then just kind of sits there at the splash screen. My windows has nvidia drivers version eighty something and I've been hoping to get better performance with wine:
Not that it's all that bad with XP... I'm not going to install from the source - I've tried that before and never really have any luck. I've tried cedega before too with no luck. I just hope they fix it soon and get in a deb package!

"I installed a prebuilt .9.53&.9.54 with no luck on either - just running the iw3sp.exe+nocd from a windows partition. It complains about glow, but disables it, and then just kind of sits there at the splash screen."

AFAIK, the patch mentioned in the posts above (page 3 of this thread especially) has not yet been merged into the main WINE stable build, and you can only patch by compiling from source (see page three of this thread or the guide I listed in above post for info on how to build from source). The glow error is fixed by this patch.

'Course, I could be wrong, but this was certainly the case when I last updated my WINE-git to latest version a few days ago.

Building from source isn't that bad once you've wrapped your head round it... the WINE wiki has some useful pointers and I'm sure people here would help if you get stuck.

Good luck!

Note: Guide updated 28/01/08

Thanks for the guide, HeWhoWatches!

I am using the source WINE 0.9.54 and I used the patch against source, and then compiled. Copied over the needed DLL files from my Windows hard drive. I then used a no-cd patch and I got the game to work. I did not have to install DirectX9 or modify any WINE registry setting, or use the WINE-git (whatever that is). The game plays well in Linux. I am impressed!

**update 2/23/08**
I am now using source WINE 0.9.56 and everything works the same as WINE 0.9.55. Remember to apply the patch against the source, and then build WINE, although this might not be necessary anymore. I saw in the change log that they fixed the CoD4 demo the "alpha blend" problem.

My specs:
Intel Q6600 (quad core) 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
CentOS 5.1 (32-bit version)
Nvidia 8600GTS 512MB RAM
Nvidia driver 169.09