[Wine] MS Flight Simulator?
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 08:51:21 CDT 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Gerry Visel <gcvisel at gmail.com> wrote:
> An update on my attempts to fly again...
>
> Trying to install the newer MS Flight Simulator X resulted in a
> lockup when it asked for DVD disk 2. I had to eject the DVD tray with a
> wine eject command in a second window, and it would never recognize that
> disk 2 was inserted. Multiple tries got me no further, though it had
> installed a lot of files from disk 1.
>
> So I backed up a bit and dug out my old copy of FS98. It was
> contained wholly on one CD, which did install just fine. So far, so
> good.
>
> When I then tried to run it from the Wine menu, it would start up
> fine, with the engine running, and responding to controls. However,
> when I taxied very far or tried to take off, wine would crash. When I
> ran it from a terminal window where I could watch, with:
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/gerry/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files
> \Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\FltSim98.exe"
> I got this as it loaded:
> fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil))
> fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d8e0,0x00000000),
> stub!
> and this when it crashed:
> Segmentation fault
>
> Anybody got any ideas on how to proceed? Is anybody else flying it?
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on an Intel box, without a Winders partition
> any more.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerry
>
>
>
I don't think this app has ever worked well, FWIW.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7775&iTestingId=20357
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