[Bug 36492] 32-bit Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.x fails to start in 64-bit WINEPREFIX

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36492

--- Comment #4 from Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> ---
Hello Anastasius, 

First, I should say that NatSpeak installs and runs very well in a 32-bit wine
prefix, and that's what I use when I run it. I'm very happy with its current
performance. 
NatSpeak has had a 64-bit "version" for a couple of editions now. It's really a
32-bit program with handles that make it run on a 64-bit system. 
But there is no reason that I know of why it shouldn't run on a 64-bit wine
prefix, and I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't. Some of this is
pre-emptive, since I have heard that NatSpeak is working on a true 64-bit
version. In fact, it would be odd if they were not, since the program is very
resource-intensive, and would benefit greatly from using more RAM, among other
things. 

The second reason I want to fix it is that it seems to be both a very small
problem and a regression. NatSpeak installed and ran 64-bit in wine version
1.4, and I could upgrade from there to 1.6, but starting at 1.6 it only
installs in a 32-bit wineprefix. 

I can't do regression tests any more because compiling wine is now too
complicated for my limited skills. I've tried with the directions several
times.

Winetricks:
I install with winetricks fontfix only. I was told that vcrun2010 helps avoid
some errors, but whatever functionality it provides is minor and I don't use
it, so I don't bother installing it. Sometimes I turn on font smoothing to
gray, assuming that it can't hurt. I don't remember whether I did. 
Winecfg I set to Vista (sometimes but not this time to Windows 8), and I set
the outgoing audio to pulseaudio rather than "default." The former makes it
install correctly; the latter is required for it to work.

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