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Old 11-26-2005, 03:22 AM   #1
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Wine on x86_64 systems


Hello guys, I was wondering if any of you has had trouble running WineHQ's Wine in an x86_64 distribution. I've got both cedega and Wine installed on Fedora Core 4 x86_64, and oddly enough cedega works just fine, while Wine simply refuses to work properly. Specific cases being games. I'm pretty sure the games i'm trying to get running work just fine in a pure 32-bit environment, but for some reason miserably fail in an x86_64 system, even with all the libraries in place (otherwise, how come Starcraft works just fine with cedega and not wine?)

Was just wandering if anyone else had experience with wine on x86_64 Linux.
 
Old 11-29-2005, 09:17 AM   #2
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was the installation proper...did it show any dependency error
 
Old 12-01-2005, 11:56 AM   #3
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Nope. Tinckering around it seems that what was required was to properly configure wine with winecfg.
 
Old 12-08-2005, 11:24 AM   #4
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Nope. Tinckering around it seems that what was required was to properly configure wine with winecfg.
I'm not able to run Starcraft on my system (FC4 x86_64). Could you point me in the direction of an online guide you used, or some of the things you had to change to get it working.
 
Old 12-08-2005, 01:39 PM   #5
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I'm not able to run Starcraft on my system (FC4 x86_64). Could you point me in the direction of an online guide you used, or some of the things you had to change to get it working.
Sure!

First off, what does it seem to be the problem?

Second, make sure you have all the pertinent drives configured with winecfg. One of the coolest things of Windows-through-Linux as I call wine, is that you can configure your drives as you see fit, not having to have a C:\ drive as your home and having the ability to pretty much configure all your partitions and whatnot.

Well, for me, Starcraft and other games were not working properly since they required CD drive access and an exclusive "drive" had not been appointed for use as a Wine device. So I had to run winecfg:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ecfg_about.png

This is a very useful tool, which allows you to configure (in a grahpical way, windows-like) the behaviour of Wine:
This last tab proved to be the most important for me to be able to properly run games (which required CD access) in Wine. If you click the autodetect button in the drives tab, pretty much all your dri'ves partitions (and devices under /media) will show, with the exception of /boot. When you click add drive, a new drive will be added and you can browse through your filesystem to add a drive, say for example you want to add /usr/local/games as a drive, just add a new drive and browse to it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ive_browse.png

Here you can get an advanced view of the drive's configuration:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...e_advanced.png

Where you can change some options of your drives, like label. From my experience, this is not so useful for Optic drives, but quite useful for your other configured drives. Hope this helps.

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Old 12-13-2005, 07:38 PM   #6
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hey guru incase u do not have any fat partitions on your hdd can u still install win pgms using wine?
 
Old 12-14-2005, 03:43 PM   #7
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Yes, you can. When you configure your partitions or filesystem directories as Windows drives, Wine will be able to treat them as a FAT partition, even though all UNIX attributes will still apply (owner, user, group permissions and stuff).
 
Old 12-20-2005, 10:28 PM   #8
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Sure!

First off, what does it seem to be the problem?

Second, make sure you have all the pertinent drives configured with winecfg. One of the coolest things of Windows-through-Linux as I call wine, is that you can configure your drives as you see fit, not having to have a C:\ drive as your home and having the ability to pretty much configure all your partitions and whatnot.
That's really cool what you've done with wineconfig... I run it on FC4 x86_64, but it dosn't help get steam running. Steam throws a fatal exception / memory address error, and I can't seem to find a d*mn thing about it...

I can screenshot the error, but I agree w/ the post above, that there are some strange issues with wine and Fedora x64.

For the record, I had similar errors with K-Ubuntu x86_64 and both Wine and XoverOffice.

Cedega doesn't install properly from CVS... at least not w/ the script that I'm using...

Thanks!

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Old 12-21-2005, 11:07 AM   #9
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Indeed some executables in 32 and 16 bit mode cause trouble in x86_64 for some reason, many programs that work just fine with cedega won't work all that well in Wine.
 
  


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