[Wine] Re: Problem well trying to run Need For Speed Porsche Unleased

[Darren Wilkinson]

dynamicpaul at msn.com wrote:
> Daniel Skorka wrote:
>> dynamicpaul at msn.com wrote:
>>> paul at Pdesktop:~$ wine "C:\PROG~FBU\ELEC~OXY\NEED~N54\Porsche.exe"
>> [...]
>>> FILE_load - unable to open file install.txt [FILE=\real\cmn\hlsfile.c,
>>> LINE 218]
>> Please have another look at my last post.
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> Ok, sorry about that I missed the beginning bit and just saw the copy
> protection thing.
> 
> So first thing I choose Win 98 becasue the games kinda old so I assumed
> it woulr work well on that system. I then changed it to Nt 4.0 because
> it said I should.
> 
NT 4 and windows 3.1 are both very old systems. Stick to the default of win 2000 
or change to 98/95 as you did.

> Second I must have read something wrong but I am sure I have 0.9.9 I
> took a picture and you can see it highlighted in the package manager.
> The photo is here at flickr
> 
> Third i tried the cd ~/wine/drive_c/program\ files/ and got...
> 
> paul at Pdesktop:~$ /home/paul/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic
> Arts/Need For Speed - Porsche Unleashed/Porsche.exe
> bash: /home/paul/.wine/drive_c/Program: No such file or directory

Thats because in unix terms it would be this:

/home/paul/.wine/drive_c/ Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Need\ For\ Speed\ -\ 
Porsche\ Unleashed/Porsche.exe

What you should to is use your browser to change to the games directory and 
launch a console so it is in the need for speed dir or cd to the directory like 
this:

cd /home/paul/.wine/drive_c/ Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Need\ For\ Speed\ 
-\ Porsche\ Unleashed

and then type "wine porsche.exe"

This is because the game expects its files to be in the *current* directory but 
"wine /path/to/game/game.exe" won't cd to "/path/to/game". Instead it will keep 
the consoles current directory and the exe will end up looking for it's files in 
that.
> 
> and then I tried your second command and got this
> 
> paul at Pdesktop:~$ wine Porsche.exe
> wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Porsche.exe": Module not
> found
> 
If wine can't find porsche.exe (capitals in the exe name at least don't matter 
to wine) in the current directory it will look in it's windows/system32 dir.

> it just keeps getting better to. I fooled around and I loaded up the
> autoplay from the CD and it said I had Directx 0. So i tried to
> reinstall DirectX and it already said I had a copy of Directx. Mabye I
> should just get Cedega
> 
Wine imitates DirectX like it does with the rest of windows. Quite a bit of 
DirectX work has been done in the past few releases so check the www.winehq.com 
website for a recent package for ubuntu. Changing your c drive in winecfg to a 
drive you have windows installed on may also change wether an app runs or not. 
As for wine & cedega I find if a exe starts in one it starts in the other. 
Within the games themselves you mileage may vary.