[Bug 12547] Original Civilization III does not run -- drive read error/ crashes

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12547





--- Comment #9 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2008-04-15 11:56:15 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Well if you're creating a symlink, then you put the source first like this:
> 
> ln -s /dev/YOUR_CD_DRIVE ~/.wine/dosdevices/f\: 

Duh, thanks. Was up late last night.

> 
> The drive read error seems to only be an issue now after game installation. 
> Once I kill the dosdevices, it reads the drive.  I would imagine that doing a
> symlink directly to the device wouldn't be effective because the files aren't
> mounted there.  I tried it anyway because I'll try anything at this point and
> it was worse.  It didn't detect at all.  When the f: is set to /mnt/cdrom and
> it's mounted, it detects the CD but then crashes.  I think the main thing here
> is if you look at the crashes I attached, it's complaining about something
> called LSANS.fot.  I have a file name LSANS.TTF and I've tried linking and
> copying that file as LSANS.fot in the Civilization III and windows/fonts
> directories and that does not work either.
> 

You said the game uses Safedisc, right?


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