[Wine] Sid Meier's Pirates! crashes consistently - Part II

[James McKenzie]

peyre wrote:
> I'm running the latest version of Wine (currently 1.1.28 ) on Xubuntu 9.04 and I kept getting the error "The program Pirates!.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."  It was occurring regularly a short time after I started playing.  Some helpful folks posted suggestions to help get it working reliably, but nothing made a significant difference, and in the end they suggested the problem was likely because I was running the game with the crummy onboard video.
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> So, I purchased a good card, an NVIDIA GeForce EN9600GT.  I'm using the driver recommended by EnvyNG (180.44), and it's enabled in Hardware Drivers.  (I'm using the VGA output, not the DVI or HDMI.)  But now I get the error immediately when I start Pirates.  No video for the game comes up at all--not even the steering wheel at the very beginning--Wine opens and errors out.  I've removed Pirates, removed and reinstalled Wine, and reinstalled Pirates, without effect.
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Try updating your drivers to 190.X (beta) and see if the problem goes
away.  You may also have to install additional packages on Xubuntu to
support your new video card.

James McKenzie