Successful Wine Installations

[vek]

ThreadSpace: Hyperbol (an indie game) on steam

1. Installed Steam as per all the other guides
2. Installed ThreadSpace: Hyperbol from steam game browser
3. Copied D3DX9_32.dll from another place (haha) to the games folder
4. Edited startup parameters to go my desired resolution and windowed mode

Well, the developers of the game actulaly put a guide up step by step for ubuntu:
http://wiki.hyperbol.com/moin.cgi/LinuxWINEGuide

I know, its cheating cuz I'm one of those devs, haha. But hey, I use ubuntu, I play it under ubuntu, I figure people would want to know how I'm excited about it cuz I just tried it using the latest wine and the pixel shaders, blur, glow, and so on all suddenly work just fine. -glee-

I've heard that copying/installing D3DX9_32.DLL is no longer necessary as of the latest WINE versions. Can anyone confirm this?

[mr_boo1711]

1. Dawn of War - Dark Crusade by Relic & THQ

2. Installation worked fine, nothing unusual

3. It worked straight away when I'd installed it

4. Units weren't saying their little sound bites when I clicked on them. Setting drivers to ALSA and ticking driver emulation in the audio settings of winecfg fixed this. The framerate is slightly lower than it was on Windows in the same settings.

5. Wine Version = wine-0.9.40

Ok- I'm trying to achieve what's stated above, but alas - no results! Now I'm getting use to Linux ok, but I'm a WINE novice (If there's such a thing). I installed the most up-to-date version of WINE, but when I go to the CD and run the setup exe it LOOKS like its about to do something, and then it does nothing?! Its setup to run all exe's as if it was XP and I cant see any other settings that look not right, If you run the autorun.exe on the CD then it brings up the menu, and if you click 'install game' it pauses and then closes the virtual windows desktop.

Any ideas?

[Victormd]

I took a slightly different approach: I installed all my games when logged in to my Windows installation, then I run the games from Ubuntu using wine through an ntfs-3g mount.

How does the "ntfs-3g mount" work? Because I also dual-boot and am trying to install all my games directly under ubuntu - no luck with any need for speed - so after reading your post, I think that's probably the best route for now. Could you explain how to get Ubuntu to recognize the directory under which the game is installed and correctly link all the dlls (not to access the NTFS partition)?
Thanks

[Victormd]

Warcraft III
- Installed from mounted CD image
- It worked straight away
- No graphics or audio issues so far
- Wine Version 0.9.52

Need For Speed High Stakes
- Installed directly from CD
- Still not working... I'm working on this one
- Wine Version 0.9.52

Adobe Photoshop CS
- Installed directly from CD
- Fully functional as far as I've tested it. I'll update as I work more on it.
- Wine Version 0.9.53

[davidpeace]

1. Diablo 2 with Lord of Destruction expansion
2. Wine version that I downloaded with the cd image (amd64)
3. Only two minor glitches: a. pressing alt to show items on the ground and then clicking on it won't pick up the item, but instead brings up a dialog about whether I want the window on top.... My work-around is to just click anywhere and press alt twice (2 times). b. Sometimes, during game transitions, or starting a new game without quitting D2LOD, the sound goes out. My solution: exit the game completely and restart.