[Wine] Sims?

[L. Rahyen]

	(Don't forget to reply to the list)

	I already gave you explaination how to bypass the installation on WINE: read 
carefully. In short words: you need to do the installation under VMWare or 
QEmu and monitor it with filemon and regmon and then import all changed or 
newly created files and registry entries from Windows to WINE. And yes, this 
is not what a simple user should do. And even not what should do a developer 
in most cases!
	Best thing you can do for the WINE project in order to help to fix your 
problem is to write a bug report at http://bugs.winehq.org . This will take 
just few minutes of your time but will help to resolve your problem and 
someone (maybe I) may suggest a workaround if it exists - in this case you 
will be able to install your application right now.
	We need bug report from you if you want to find a solution or temporal 
workaround to your problem because it is clear that your problem is unlikely 
to be user mistake, it is more likely a bug in WINE and needs to be fixed.
	Don't forget to attach (not paste) full terminal output from failing 
installer and your WINE version (make sure it is at least 0.9.41). You will 
be able to attach files in the comments to your bugreport.
	Thanks!

On Wednesday July 18 2007 09:51, Warren Dumortier wrote:
> Thanks for trying to help me :(
>
> Wineprefixcreate didn't resolve it but the installation worked a bit
> longer, but stille the same message...
> I also saw this error:
> fixme:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim (0x3b2a58 L"fusion.dll", (nil), (nil),
> 0x34b938): semi-stub
>
> Maybe important :S
>
> For Windows, I don't have a installation cd and no time for doing it :(
>
> Can't you explain me how to bypass the installation?
>
> Thanks
>
> 2007/7/17, L. Rahyen <research at science.su>:
> > On Monday July 16 2007 16:38, Warren Dumortier wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I am asking it here :)
> > >
> > > My sister bought this game: Sims: Animal histories
> > >
> > > The installer works partially, when accepting a license, the installer
> > > says: 'Impossible to continue installation because this game derquier
> > > DirectX9.0c or higher. You can download it on M$..."
> >
> > 	If you are using latest version of WINE (0.9.41) with no native dlls
> > installed by you then you definitely should write a bug report to
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/ ; this will help developerts to fix your problem.
> > 	But before doing this try the following:
> >
> > mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.old
> > wineprefixcreate
> >
> > 	And try again to install your application. If it still doesn't work,
> > please fill a bug report.
> > 	Also try to run winecfg and try to set Windows version to win98 and
> > win2000.
> > If it does show any difference include this into your bug report.
> >
> > > What can I do?
> > > Can you bypass the check?
> > > Maybe with adding dlls (native)?
> >
> > 	Native dlls are unlikely to help in this case. It is possible to bypass
> > the check but proper way to solve the problem is to fill a bug report to
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/ . This is especially true if you are simple user
> > and don't know how to bypass installers.
> >
> > > I also tried to installa DirectX installer included on the cd but it
> > > also doesn't work :S
> >
> > 	Native DirectX will never work. This is because it has some low level
> > code which cannot work on Linux. This is why WINE has its own
> > implementation of DirectX up to version 9.0c (DirectX 10 not supported
> > yet).
> >
> > > If I can't resolve this, then I will have to install Windows :S
> >
> > 	You may to install it using VMWare or QEmu on Linux, monitor all
> > registry and
> > disk changes (with regmon and filemon) before and after installation and
> > import them into WINE drive_c and then try to run your game with WINE.
> > Again,
> > if you encouter additional problems don't forget to write a bug report.