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Harkainos
April 19th, 2007, 10:13 AM
I have successfully move WoW from my ntfs folder to the ext3 folder. I am going to try other games, but I have a question. Should I move them into the wine folder? or just to my home/games folder?

Currently (since i haven't created the shortcut) I need to double click the wow.exe and cannot run wine wow.exe in terminal (I know this is because i probably need to type wine \home\games\etc...)

On games that require a registry edit (CD Keys, etc) am I able to just move them? Or do i need to install them specifically?
justin whitaker
April 19th, 2007, 02:51 PM
I have successfully move WoW from my ntfs folder to the ext3 folder. I am going to try other games, but I have a question. Should I move them into the wine folder? or just to my home/games folder?

You can put them anywhere you like. WINE really just needs to know where to find the executable.

Currently (since i haven't created the shortcut) I need to double click the wow.exe and cannot run wine wow.exe in terminal (I know this is because i probably need to type wine \home\games\etc...)

You could create a launcher pretty easily if it bugs you. *shrug* The game runs, that is the important thing, right?

On games that require a registry edit (CD Keys, etc) am I able to just move them? Or do i need to install them specifically?

I think you need to install any title that does the key check in the registry. Oh, and you should install STEAM and the STEAM titles. They just update better that way.
Harkainos
April 19th, 2007, 05:05 PM
That is what I thought. I might boot into windows (wish me luck) and extract registry files... I could edit them and run. I mean if they work the same, then it should be good.

What do you think?
justin whitaker
April 19th, 2007, 11:48 PM
That is what I thought. I might boot into windows (wish me luck) and extract registry files... I could edit them and run. I mean if they work the same, then it should be good.

What do you think?

Should work. I'm not really familiar with how the Wine registry differs from the Windows Registry, but I've heard that this sort of thing works before.

Keep in mind, I do not have an XP install to test this out first, so YMMV.