Installs fine. Then Doesn't run.

[LinuxNewb51]

I have installed several games such as Starcraft, Warcraft, and more and they all do the same thing. They install fine but when I try to run it the wine desktop appears stays on a while then shuts off. It happens on every one of them. I think it's a simple problem i just don't know what I've done wrong.

Can anyone help? thx in advance.

[cogadh]

What are your winecfg settings?
What messages, if any, are produced in the terminal when the games fail?
Have you checked on Wine's AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/) for any specific configurations required by the games you are trying to run?
How are you running the games (i.e. what are entering into the terminal)?

Let's just start with that and move from there...

[LinuxNewb51]

I'm not running it from the terminal. I run it from the applications menu. Should I?

[cogadh]

Until you have a game running smoothly, you really should use the terminal to launch it. If Wine produces any error messages, they can only be seen in the terminal window. Once you have the game running correctly, then using the menu shortcuts is usually fine.

What about the other questions?

[LinuxNewb51]

I can't seem to get it to run in the terminal because it can't find the file. where should I put it? And there are no special configurations on the wine site. And what settings do you need to know? or what settings should I put?



EDIT:
I now got it to do something in the terminal and it came up with this:

err:module:import_dll Library Storm.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\WarcraftIIBNE.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\WarcraftIIBNE.exe" failed, status c0000135

[cogadh]

Open your home folder in the file browser and hit CTRL+H to show hidden files. Look for the .wine/drive_c directory and open it. At this point, the file directory structure will start to look like Windows (i.e. a Windows and Program Files directory). Go into Program Files and look for where the game is installed. Then do this in the terminal:
cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/gamedirectory
If the game directory has any spaces in its name, put in a backslash like I did with "Program\ Files"
Next, run this to launch the game:
wine game.exe
Obviously, change the "game.exe" to match your game's executable. The game should now launch and if it doesn't, the errors associated with it will appear in the terminal.

As for your settings, click on the "Stuff I've learned about Wine" link in my signature. It leads to a post I wrote that will help you get Wine set up with a basic working configuration and may answer many other Wine questions you might have.

Post back with any results you get.

[LinuxNewb51]

scratch that

this is what it's doing

main/renderbuffer.c:2041: _mesa_add_renderbuffer: Assertion `bufferName == BUFFER_DEPTH || bufferName == BUFFER_STENCIL || fb->Attachment[bufferName].Renderbuffer == ((void *)0)' failed.
wine: Assertion failed at address 0xffffe410 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: assertion failed in 32-bit code (0xffffe410).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:ffffe410 ESP:0033e9f4 EBP:0033ea0c EFLAGS:00200202( - 00 - - I1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:00001ab9 ECX:00001ab9 EDX:00000006
ESI:0033eaac EDI:b7e4dff4
Stack dump:
0x0033e9f4: 0033ea0c 00000006 00001ab9 b7d3adf0
0x0033ea04: b7e4dff4 b7d0c6c0 0033eb38 b7d3c641
0x0033ea14: 00000006 0033eaac 00000000 00000130
0x0033ea24: 7c229dc0 00000000 00000000 b7d75dfd
0x0033ea34: 0033ea70 7c229d58 7c229dbc 0033eb48
0x0033ea44: b7e4dff4 000000bb 000000bc 0033eb1c
Backtrace:
=>1 0xffffe410 (0x0033ea0c)
2 0xb7d3c641 abort+0x101() in libc.so.6 (0x0033eb38)
3 0xb7d3443b __assert_fail+0xfb() in libc.so.6 (0x0033eb7c)
4 0x7e26ab9b _mesa_add_renderbuffer+0x13b() in unichrome_dri.so (0x0033eb9c)
5 0x7e204c75 in unichrome_dri.so (+0x5bc75) (0x0033ebcc)
6 0x7e20555a viaMakeCurrent+0x1ba() in unichrome_dri.so (0x0033ebfc)
7 0x7e201859 in unichrome_dri.so (+0x58859) (0x0033ec3c)
8 0x7e40c0ce glXMakeContextCurrent+0xbe() in libgl.so.1 (0x0033ecac)
9 0x7e40c3b3 glXMakeCurrent+0x23() in libgl.so.1 (0x0033eccc)
10 0x77566a40 in wined3d (+0x36a40) (0x0033ed9c)
11 0x775680ea IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps+0x3a() in wined3d (0x0033ef3c)
12 0x7756b75d InitAdapters+0x16d() in wined3d (0x0033ef7c)
13 0x775c918f WineDirect3DCreate+0x1f() in wined3d (0x0033efac)
14 0x7b98b293 in ddraw (+0x2b293) (0x0033f01c)
15 0x7b98b942 DirectDrawCreate+0x102() in ddraw (0x0033f06c)
16 0x0048a40d in warii (+0x8a40d) (0x0033fd10)
17 0x004284b8 in warii (+0x284b8) (0x7edea380)
18 0x7d8938ec (0x83e58955)
19 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0xffffe410: popl %ebp
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (89 modules)
PE 400000- 4d8000 Export warii
PE 2000000- 200f000 Deferred w2local
PE 15000000-1503b000 Deferred storm
ELF 774a4000-77524000 Deferred libglu.so.1
ELF 77524000-775ef000 Export wined3d<elf>
\-PE 77530000-775ef000 \ wined3d
ELF 7b800000-7b929000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b929000 \ kernel32
ELF 7b95a000-7b9af000 Export ddraw<elf>
\-PE 7b960000-7b9af000 \ ddraw
ELF 7b9af000-7ba00000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF 7bc00000-7bc97000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bc97000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bcd2000-7bd00000 Deferred libcrypt.so.1
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7bf06000-7bf76000 Deferred libgnutls.so.13
ELF 7bf76000-7bfa7000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 7bfa7000-7c000000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7bfb0000-7c000000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7c22a000-7c23f000 Deferred libtasn1.so.3
ELF 7c276000-7c315000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7c290000-7c315000 \ ole32
ELF 7c316000-7c31a000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 7c331000-7c363000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7c340000-7c363000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7c365000-7c36a000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7c36a000-7c373000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7c373000-7c390000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7c380000-7c390000 \ imm32
ELF 7c390000-7c396000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7c396000-7c39e000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e1a9000-7e3e1000 Export unichrome_dri.so
ELF 7e3e1000-7e3ea000 Deferred libdrm.so.2
ELF 7e3ea000-7e44a000 Export libgl.so.1
ELF 7e44a000-7e44f000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e44f000-7e452000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e452000-7e543000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e543000-7e551000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e551000-7e556000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e556000-7e56e000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e56e000-7e577000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e577000-7e600000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e590000-7e600000 \ winex11
ELF 7e679000-7e699000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e699000-7e6c4000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e6c4000-7e6d8000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e6d8000-7e743000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e743000-7e756000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7e756000-7e774000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7e760000-7e774000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7e774000-7e7a1000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 7e780000-7e7a1000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7e7a1000-7e7bb000 Deferred wsock32<elf>
\-PE 7e7b0000-7e7bb000 \ wsock32
ELF 7e7bb000-7e822000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 7e7d0000-7e822000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7e822000-7e83c000 Deferred crtdll<elf>
\-PE 7e830000-7e83c000 \ crtdll
ELF 7e83c000-7e850000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7e840000-7e850000 \ lz32
ELF 7e850000-7e86a000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7e860000-7e86a000 \ version
ELF 7e86a000-7e89d000 Deferred winspool<elf>
\-PE 7e870000-7e89d000 \ winspool
ELF 7e89d000-7e95a000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7e8b0000-7e95a000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e95a000-7e9b3000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7e970000-7e9b3000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7e9b3000-7eab1000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7e9c0000-7eab1000 \ shell32
ELF 7eab1000-7eb52000 Deferred comdlg32<elf>
\-PE 7eac0000-7eb52000 \ comdlg32
ELF 7eb52000-7eb9a000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7eb60000-7eb9a000 \ advapi32
ELF 7eb9a000-7eba6000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7ec9a000-7ed5a000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ecb0000-7ed5a000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ed5a000-7ee97000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ed80000-7ee97000 \ user32
ELF 7efad000-7efb8000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7efb8000-7efcf000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efcf000-7eff6000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7eff6000-7f000000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF b7d03000-b7d0c000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF b7d0d000-b7d11000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7d11000-b7e52000 Export libc.so.6
ELF b7e53000-b7e6a000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7e74000-b7f88000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF b7f8a000-b7fa5000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000a
0000000c 0
0000000b 0
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\WarII\warii.exe
0000000d 1
00000009 0 <==

[LinuxNewb51]

okay can anyone help me with this?

[buttons]

okay can anyone help me with this?

Silly question: Do you have direct rendering working?

glxinfo | grep direct

Type that in a terminal. You should see something like this:
direct rendering: Yes
The helpful bit is that Yes there. If it's a no, please see the Binary Driver Howto here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto).

[kernalsanders123]

Hello all, kind of new here to the forum, and linux in general, so sorry if i can't provide any solutions. I do have a similar problem though, i can install wine just fine, but whenever I try to run an application, though, it usually errors out. Oddly enough, eMule runs fine via wine, but other programs don't. For example, when I try to run Frets on FIre via wine, the terminal spits this out at me:

err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglMakeContextCurrentARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglGetCurrentReadDCARB) - not found
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMe m (0x188f98) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x1773b0)->((nil),00000008)
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x1773b0)->((nil),00000008)

p.s.: sorry if I didn't format the code correctly, I'm pretty much a n00b at Linux and forums, but if anyone would care to fill me in as to properly inserting code into a reply so I don't screw it up again, that' be a big help, thanks!

[cogadh]

First off, why are you trying to run FoF in Wine? There is a Linux native client.

Second, those errors would seem to indicate that you do not have the 3D accellerated driver for your video card installed. What kind of video card do you have?

Thirdly, you can pretty much ignore any "fixme" messages from Wine. 9 times out of 10, they are just developer messages and notes that actually mean nothing to an end user. They are just there to remind the developers of what they still have left to work on.

[kernalsanders123]

When I try to run Frets on Fire in linux, the terminal gives me this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in <module>
engine = GameEngine(config)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/GameEngine.py", line 189, in __init__
self.data = Data(self.resource, self.svg)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Data.py", line 48, in __init__
self.loadSvgDrawing(self, "star1", "star1.svg", textureSize = (128, 128))
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Data.py", line 106, in loadSvgDrawing
drawing = self.resource.load(target, name, lambda: SvgDrawing(self.svg, fileName), synch = True)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Resource.py", line 157, in load
return l.finish()
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Resource.py", line 68, in load
self.result = self.function()
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Data.py", line 106, in <lambda>
drawing = self.resource.load(target, name, lambda: SvgDrawing(self.svg, fileName), synch = True)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Svg.py", line 543, in __init__
self.texture = Texture(bitmapFile)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Texture.py", line 202, in __init__
self.loadFile(name)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Texture.py", line 206, in loadFile
self.loadImage(Image.open(name))
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Texture.py", line 214, in loadImage
self.loadRaw(image.size, string, GL_RGBA, 4)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Texture.py", line 281, in loadRaw
gluBuild2DMipmaps(self.glTarget, components, w, h, format, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, string)
OpenGL.GLU.GLUerror: [Errno 100901] invalid value


I believe that this has something to due to to my lack of amanith on my computer, which I tried installing, but frankly I could not make heads or tails of the instructions. However, this is probably another issue for another forum.

As for video card drivers, I downloaded and installed the drivers from ATI, which are listed under the restricted drives manager as the ATI accelerated graphics driver, and is listed as being enabled and in use.

As for the fixme messages, that clears up quite a bit, Thanks!