Wine + Thief CD drive error

**Hobo Joe** · August 5th, 2007

Ok, so I really like Thief, and it doesn't work on Windows XP(unless there is some tweak I don't know of), so I thought I'd give it a try out on WINE, emulating Windows 98. So I popped the CD in, and everything worked perfect, not a single hitch through the whole install.

Then, after the install finished, the window popped up with options like 'play' and 'uninstall' etc. So I click play, and it says "Please enter CD into drive". Normally I wouldn't consider this a really weird error with WINE, in fact, I would say it's to be expected, but because I was able to install perfectly from the CD, it doesn't really make sense.
Has anyone had this problem or knows how to fix it?

**cogadh** · August 6th, 2007

It's probably the CDs copy protection. Wine doesn'thave complete support for all copy protection schemes, which sometimes presents itself as a "insert CD" error, so you might try to use a cracked exe.

**Hobo Joe** · August 6th, 2007

I might have agreed with that normally, but the fact that is was able to install pretty much tells me that that isn't it, but then again, I could be wrong.

Is there any way I could make a 'no-CD' patch for it? Or is that illegal?

**cogadh** · August 6th, 2007

Quite often, the copy protection doesn't actually come into play until after the game is installed. For example, Starforce copy protection only really works after it has installed a hidden driver on the system, which occurs during game installation (only on Windows, of course). A security check doesn't occur until you try to launch the game for the first time.

As for a no CD crack, its not illegal as long as you legally own the game, but why would you try to make your own when you can just download one from any number of sites?

**Hobo Joe** · August 6th, 2007

Ok, I tried installing Warcraft 3, and had the exact same results. Installed fine, but can't see the CD when I try to run.

Would it have anything to do with the fact that I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu? Or is it a bugged wine version?

**cogadh** · August 6th, 2007

What does it say for your CD drive on the Drives tab in winecfg? Is your CD drive properly configured there? You might also check to see if there is a symbolic device link to your CD drive in the .wine/dosdevices directory. If you need help with that, click on the "Stuff I've learned about Wine" link in my sig, I included some info on the drive configuration in Wine there.

Almost forgot, what version of Wine are you using?

EDIT - I did find that if you are using Warcraft 3 on a 64-bit system, you may need to run it with this command:

Code:

setarch i386 -X wine "Warcraft III.exe"

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1177

**Hobo Joe** · August 7th, 2007

Code:

setarch i386 -X wine "Warcraft III.exe"
bash: setarch: command not found

Hmmmm.

I'm using Wine version 0.9.42

My CD drive config is: "A: /media/cdrom0/"

Should it be a differen't letter or something?

**cogadh** · August 7th, 2007

A: is usually reserved for the floppy drive only in Windows, so I can see how it might cause a problem. It seems pretty unlikely, but try changing it to D: or something higher.

**Hobo Joe** · August 15th, 2007

I know I'm bumping and old thread, but i fixed the drive problem, and now I have another.

When I boot into WC3 it tries to stretch across both my monitors,(which is normal, all fullscreen apps try to do this), but when I click on options, to change it windowed mode, it crashes. So I was wondering if anyone knows about a config file or something that would change it without me having to open the game.