[Bug 16328] GTA4 does not work under Wine

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16328


cruiseoveride <cruiseoveride at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #60 from cruiseoveride <cruiseoveride at gmail.com>  2009-02-20 14:29:22 ---
I've noticed some people are getting a little frustrated with the development
of this bug. I would like to see new games like GTA4 working under Linux as
much as the next person. But please remember that wine is meant to be a clean 
implementation of windows API on Linux. Running Windows applications is merely
a by product of this effort. Wine is not a hack job to trick poorly coded
programs into working.

As I see it, if the goal is to get an application to work under wine, one needs
to first find what the minimum required implementations are. This process deals
with "hacking", stubbing out functions with glamorous return values to please
the application's logic, up to a point at which the application crashes.

Implementing API is fairly straight forward, but dancing around the logic that
causes the application to finally crash is an art in my opinion. 

Enough of my rant. Those of you who have the game, have you tried
VirtualBox+wine3d? It may help with some of the misc .net issues (but uses
wine3d).

Install the latest VBox and Wine3D
Here is a link to a wine3d build http://aybabtu.com/rmh/wined3d/

Dx8 and Dx9 seems to work.


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