Wine and Hitman, Hitman 2

conn-fused · 03-30-2005, 02:50 PM

With numerous versions of wine (currently 20050310 on Mandrake 10.1) I've been unable to install Hitman or Hitman 2. The error is (fairly) consistent:

"wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe" returns "Could not initialize installation. E:\GLCb4.tmp File not found." The only variation is in the missing filename ... I've seen E:\GLCa9.tmp, E:\GLCc6.tmp, etc.

Has anyone come across this? Better yet, has anyone found a solution? Thanks.

linmith · 03-30-2005, 02:53 PM

I found a site you might be interested in. Here you go. I haven't tried this myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

conn-fused · 03-31-2005, 04:04 AM

Thanks, but I've tried this method (although I couldn't find the no-cd patch at megagames).

Perhaps that's the missing element, but I tend to doubt it, as both Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 exhibit similar behaviour for me.

In any event, I'll keep working on it, but I welcome everyone's thoughts.

conn-fused · 04-02-2005, 03:59 AM

I just tried installing Master of Orion 3. Virtually the same message, so I think it must be a problem with my wine setup, and not with my games. I've installed several versions from RPM, using a config file I found on the net (Frank's Corner) as a starting point. I think I'll try installing from source. Any thoughts?

doralsoral · 04-02-2005, 08:42 AM

try cedega, its not that expensive.

conn-fused · 04-02-2005, 03:58 PM

Actually, I've now (almost) got everything working under Wine, having reinstalled from source. One last problem: I use ALSA for sound, but the in-game sound is very staticy. I see this error message a lot in the terminal from which I launched the game:

err:dsound

SOUND_PhaseCancel length not a multiple of block size, len = 52, block size = 4

How do I change block size, or alternatively length?