[Wine] Civilization 3 1.29f on OS X crashes on launch

[James Mckenzie]

SiRGadaBout <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> Have you removed any sort of copy protection from it? It won't work on OS X.
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>http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=6130&iTestingId=56103
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Are there results for MacOSX?  Most of the results are for Linux.

>There's no mention there of any requirement to remove copy protection.

Linux installs, for some reason, don't need this.

>However, seeing as you ask (presumably that's what you're asking, your brevity makes it a little ambiguous) I did try
>launching the game through a No-CD crack (that I know to work on Windows XP, having used it previously) also, with the
>same result.
NoCD cracks are not the same as removing copy protection, in most cases.  However, if you did do this and the program still crashes, then the problem may be elsewhere.
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>For the record, I have also "make uninstall"ed WINE 1.3.10 and deleted the .wine directory, and started from scratch by
>compiling and "make install"ing 1.2.2 (the latest stable code) and re-installing Civ3, with the same result as in my OP.
>
Actually, you did the opposite of what is recommended.  Can you remove 1.2.2 and re-install 1.3.10?

>I may have to PM the guy who claims Civ3 works on 10.6.x, and ask how he accomplished this.

This may be the best course of action.  Please advise if you have success with what the guy recommends.

James McKenzie