Call of Duty: United Offensive and wine on FC3

bentleysidwell · 12-26-2004, 12:30 PM

Greetings.

When trying to run the setup.exe program for Call of Duty : United Offensive with wine (wine-0.20041201-1.rhfc3.nr) on Fedora Core 3 (IA32), I receive the following error from the MSI InstallShield:

"1608: Unable to create InstallDriver instance, Return code: -2147024894"

I've done some googling and have found a few posts where people have commented on getting CoD:UO to run in Wine, alas I did not find any topics related to my situation.

I also found some posts that suggested upgrading the version of the MSI installer or DCOM. I am not sure exactly what the proper fix is, so if anyone has encountered this situation and knows the fix, please advise.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bentley Sidwell

mjuhannus · 12-26-2004, 02:23 PM

Hello.

I don't know what are planning to do, but I just want mention that I believe that you're not able to play DirectX games with regular wine. I thin you'll need Cedega.

mcleodnine · 12-26-2004, 02:52 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Games forum and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

mikedeatworld · 01-01-2005, 03:55 PM

Hey try the Call of Duty installers over at http://liflg.org/

mhearn · 01-02-2005, 12:33 PM

Hi Bentley, you need native DCOM:

http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/NativeDCOM.xml

sc3252 · 01-03-2005, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mjuhannus
Hello.

I don't know what are planning to do, but I just want mention that I believe that you're not able to play DirectX games with regular wine. I thin you'll need Cedega.

And from what i know call of duty is based on opengl since it is based off of quake 3 engine. I would try and run the game with cedega, but i have not tried the new version on linux so there could be problems even with cedega. If you cant afford cedega you can download the cvs version.