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I installed a game (Shredder 11) using Wine on my Ubuntu system.
The installation seemed to go well, including the directx part,
but when I want to run the game, I can't find it anywhere.
It's not in Applications -> Wine, it's not on Wine's C: drive,
and I even tried a search "find / -name shredder", which came up empty.
I tried to install it again, but according to the installation program it is already installed! (It asked me if I wanted to modify, repair, etc..).
Okay, I managed to run it, but it turns out it's very buggy under wine.
(a little off topic) I did purchase the Linux version of Shredder 12, but it is somewhat inferior to the Shredder 11 version (for Windows) I had from Chessbase (the Chessbase version uses the same engine but has a much better GUI and graphics).
You can install Windows in a virtual machine and run it on linux. VirtualBox is good ans easy to use.
I might try it, though the program (shredder) uses a lot of memory to run properly (1 gig+), so I don't know how well it will work inside a virtual machine, considering I only have 4 gigs.
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