[Wine] Re: Graphics problem with old W95 game (Panzer General 2)

[dank]

On Mar 6, 9:46 pm, "aarondesk" <aarond... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu (Dapper) newbie here. I installed Ubuntu two days ago. ...

Which version of Ubuntu?  Which version of Wine?

> Anyways, I'm trying to run a W95 game, Panzer General 2. The Wine site
> says it works fine.http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1242
>
> I was able to get the game running by changing to a Virtual Desktop
> and it loads to the main menu screen fine. However, after I start a
> scenario, the game loads up with the game control menu, but the
> central part of the screen where the map of the scenario should be
> doesn't change. It just stays the same graphic as the previous main
> menu screen. Clicking on the button to look at the strategic map
> crashes the game. Basically it appears anything with some bit of
> graphics doesn't work.
>
> I've changed Emulation to W95 for the program, and also played with
> the Video modes, but none of this helps.
...
> [And accessing the strategic map crashes the game]
>     wine: Unhandled division by zero at address 0x44b469 (thread
> 002f), starting debugger...

The appdb says it worked with wine-0.9.19, maybe you should try
that version of wine.  You can get old versions at
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/
- Dan