[Wine] Civ IV

[L. Rahyen]

On Monday October 22 2007 13:39, Joe Auty wrote:
> L. Rahyen wrote:
> > On Monday October 22 2007 05:59, Joe Auty wrote:
> >> I don't have a d3dx9_26 library, only a d3dx9 one. Did I possibly
> >> install the wrong DLL? Other than this, I have followed these
> >> instructions. I'm getting the following error:
> >
> > 	If some DDLs are missing you will see errors about missing DLLs in
> > terminal output. If you have wrong version of native DLL then you may see
> > errors about some functions unimplemented in DLL that you installed and
> > then you need find better version of that DLL. Of course, if you have no
> > such errors then you don't need additional DLLs.
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get Civ IV running on my 64 bit version of Ubuntu 7.10
> >> using the latest Wine version using these directions:
> >
> > 	First try to install your game without any special instructions and
> > without any DLL overrides. Then try to launch your game like this: cd to
> > it installation directory and type "wine game.exe". If it fail and say
> > (in terminal output) that you need some DLLs, install them (just put them
> > to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ directory). If game still doesn't
> > work then please report bug to http://bugs.winehq.org/ .
> > 	Reporting bugs is as simple as writing to this list (just make sure
> > attach long terminal output instead of just pasting it) but most
> > developers don't read wine-users mailing list at all - they prefer to
> > read bug reports from http://bugs.winehq.org/ because this is much more
> > convenient. So if you want to get your bug fixed you really need to
> > report it at
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/ .
> > 	Thank you for using WINE.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Please find my CivIV output (w. no DLL overrides) attached. The output
> looks identical, if not similar to my output w. DLL overrides.
>
> Could you please identify whether this is indeed a Wine bug, or simply a
> problem with my install?

	Personally, I always try with clean WINE before submitting a bug report. This 
is very simple:

rm -rf ~/.clean-wine
export WINEPREFIX=~/.clean-wine
wineprefixcreate

	Then install your game by running its installer (make sure that you are doing 
everything in same terminal which have WINEPREFIX pointing to clean wine 
prefix directory). After doing this try to run it from installation 
directory. If it still doesn't work then this is bug in WINE. If terminal 
output is different, output from clean WINE should be proffered.
	Please note that your ~/.wine will not be touched - by doing this in a way I 
described you always be able to test with clean wine prefix directory with 
very little additional effort and always be sure that the bug you going to 
report is real bug.
	Thanks for using WINE.