graphical issue running tropico with wine

BobCobb · 09-27-2005, 10:04 PM

I know that wine isn't complete, and that running anything through it has its hazards, but I was wondering if there was a way to get around the annoying mouse cursor errors when playing. If you haven't played tropico, you must because it is a great game.

yekrahs · 09-28-2005, 04:32 AM

so you actually managed to get tropico running on wine?
more than me

BobCobb · 09-28-2005, 12:44 PM

Yea, its not hard. Runs great in fact. The only issue is the mouse being a bugger. What problems are you having getting it to run? I may be a noob, but since I got it, I may be able to help you.

yekrahs · 09-30-2005, 11:18 AM

It got about halfway through the install and showed an error message. (should have thought to write it down... haven't had time to try an reinstall it since)

This sort of thing has happened when I've tried anything other than quite simple games, usually whatever game installs ok but then gives a load of error messages when it comes to running it.

Well I'm using Wine 20050524,
I've installed dcom98.exe (that went ok)
hmmm...what else do you say?
Fedora Core 4 on a 650 Mhz Pentium 3.

[Did you use WineTools to configure your wine btw? I would have done, but I don't have an internet connection (I'm on a library computer right now). I would have thought though that WineTools would give you the option of installing whatever file from a different location than the automatic one, e.g. from my hard drive (with files I've downloaded from the library and brought home on a USB). Or say the link was broken, for whatever reason? You should be able to specify a URL!]

...Anyway, rant over.
Any idea what's wrong? Or what other info should I provide?
I'll post the error message soon.

BobCobb · 10-01-2005, 10:34 AM

Hmm, I'm not sure exactly what could be worng without an error message. What did you use to install it? I had to use the autorun program exe, because the setup.exe didn't run when I executed it through wine.
First of all I would update and get the new version of wine, I don't have the newest version, but version 20050725 because I know that the version after that doesn't work on slackware, but the newest version is untried. I would download the newest first, and if you can get wine to run try to install again.

I use Wincfg to configure wine. My slack laptop won't have internet till I can afford all the wireless gear, so I don't have internet on that either.

yekrahs · 10-04-2005, 05:08 AM

I got the most recent version of wine... (just 4 days old...)
but had a few problems.
(One strange thing was when I compiled it, by the time it had finished it had taken 2 hours and the wine directory in /usr/local had used up 890MB of hard drive space!!! There were no errors or anything and it works, but I find this peculiar: the rpm I used for a previous version installed in seconds, and I don't think the /usr/local directory it created was anywhere *near* so big. Did you compile it yourself? And if so, was it that large?)

I also tried winecfg... seems a bit the same to Winetools in that it tries to connect automatically to the internet to download all the necessary files, which of course it couldn't do. So I'm just wondering how you used it to make any difference if your comp isn't connected to the internet either! I noticed the files it was trying to download were a bit old, too, (dcom95.exe for example). The new version of wine is no longer equivalent to Windows 98 anymore (so dcom98.exe is too old), I think it needs some NT version of dcom now.

[Having also downloaded the slightly older version of wine you said you have, I may try that as well, see if anything different happens.]

If I *do* use winecfg's .wine folder in my home directory, I get this error message when I try to use wine. However, it's ok if I use the .wine file it installs normally instead.

Quote:

Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/user', starting in the Windows directory.

I also got this when I compiled wine in the first place. Did you get this, and if so, is the error message important?

Quote:

*************************************************
*************************************************
The installed Wine libraries will not be found!
You can either:
Add the line '/usr/local/lib' to /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
*************************************************
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/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkdeinit_cvsservice.so.#prelink#.KSihjk is empty, not checked.

Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/usr/local/wine-20050930', starting in the Windows directory.
err:wave:OSS_WaveOutInit open(/dev/mixer) failed (Permission denied)
err:wave:OSS_WaveInInit open(/dev/mixer) failed (Permission denied)
/home/sharkey/.wine updated successfully.

Installation complete for now. Good luck (this is still alpha software).
If you have problems with WINE, please read the documentation first,
as many kinds of potential problems are explained there.
[user@localhost wine-20050930]$

Any ideas?
(Oh, sorry I forgot to get that tropico error message. Will post that soon)

yekrahs · 10-12-2005, 04:09 AM

Hey, BobCobb, are you still out there?

I finally got wine to work... I got winesetuptk and everything went fine for wine.
It gives me some error when I try to run tropico though... "Tropico cannot be played with the cd not in the drive", or something. Perhaps wine isn't recognising my cd drive.
Nevermind.

But I jut had a thought: why don't you try cedega from CVS?
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=45
That may work better.

However, I also heard the CVS version doesn't come with cdrom for running off cd's: you might need to get a no cd patch somewhere off the internet.