[Wine] Re: I think I messed up DirectDraw.
jeffz
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Aug 7 20:20:12 CDT 2008
DOS4dinner wrote:
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> vitamin wrote:
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> > What video card and driver? I'm assuming you was installing these programs into different WINEPREFIXes? If not, then the next step would be to do that.
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> I am using an ATI Radeon 9800 with the propiatary drivers (the ones from the Ubuntu repositories, I believe--whichever ones you get when you hit the "use propiatary drivers" button.
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> And what are the "WINEPREFIXes" and what am I supposed to do? (I am new to Wine)?
your WINEPREFIX is where your Wine data is stored, registry, drive_c etc
The default WINEPREFIX is ~/.wine
If you want to run a program under a new or different WINEPREFIX, then you run Wine like this, for example under a prefix named foo
WINEPREFIX=/home/myusername/foo wine /path/to/setup.exe
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