[Bug 40826] Galactic Civilizations III: does not start

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40826

Czcibor Bohusz-Dobosz <czbd at o2.pl> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Czcibor Bohusz-Dobosz <czbd at o2.pl> ---
The issue seems to be caused by Wine not understanding the notoriously ugly
parts of the Batch syntax just as good as the newer versions of Windows do. To
be precise, Wine seems to be unable to parse through directories with spaces in
their names when the entire path isn't wrapped in quotes.

Thankfully, the game doesn't use spaces in the names of directories inside the
Galactic Civilizations III directory, so a workaround is to create a symlink to
the directory itself in drive_c, like that (note that I assume that the
WINEPREFIX with Galactic Civilizations III is ~/.steamwine, and that Steam is
installed in its default installation directory):
cd ~/.steamwine/drive_c && ln -s "~/.steamwine/drive_c/Program Files
(x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Galactic Civilizations III" galciv3

The game can then be run like that:
cd ~/.steamwine/drive_c/galciv3 && WINEPREFIX=~/.steamwine GalCiv3.exe

If the game starts loading but then a black screen appears and it crashes, one
might need to set the MaxVersionGL DWORD value located in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D (the Direct3D key, as well as the
value, might need to be created first) to 00030002 in regedit.

To run the game a bit more comfortably (even more comfort is naturally possible
if one doesn't mind getting rid of the Steam DRM, but that's not to be
discussed here), the /nolauncher flag can be appended.

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