Wine Install Times on 3d Games...

[Matthew White]

I was installing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II the other day, using wine of course, and it seemed that the install took SO ASTRONOMICALLY LONG that I must be doing something incorrectly. Basically I just put the disc in and run setup.exe with wine, which is integrated into Nautilus so I just double click it. Should I run it w/ sudo? What's taking so long? (I'm talking 4-6 hours for the install)

My system is by no means slow
1.8GHz AMD with latest k7 kernel
256 MB DDR Nvidia video card w/ latest drivers...
640 MB ram.
And the CD drive is 64x.
So...

I don't know, maybe this is normal? Any thoughts?

I just want to know if once I install it it will work properly so I don't wait the 10+ hours for nothing.

Thanks!

[RagerX]

Yeah that's normal, it's to do with the amount of small mp3 files that are copied across. Wine\Cedega seems to have a problem with such a large amount of small files. Maybe it's something to do with installsheild and whatever checking mechanism it uses as it copies the files...

[YokoZar]

It's a bug in Wine - installshield tends to go slow with lots of small files.

It'll work, just give it time. Lots of time.

[patrick295767]

The most important is once the game is running ...

What about the performances of the game running with wine compared to windowbs ??

Grreetings