It's really not - you're just not used to it yet.
That's because it's not difficult - you're reacting to "warns" as if they're "errors" and generally a little tense about things. This is just because you're not used to terminals, etc. It gets better.I just don't understand why it is so difficult when using WINE. This game is rated Gold with WINE.
The ALSA messages are from Wine, telling you that it's not sure how to talk to your sound card. If you've not used Wine before, try typing:
winecfg
into a terminal, and going to the sound tab and setting up your sound devices. (Pick ALSA to start with.)
Then, after closing winecfg, try the
wine installer.exe
again.
After many fruitless hours, I gave up on installing from the disks aand downloaded the installer. I don't know how this will be any better, but...nothing beats a can't like a try! Oddly, I had already tested the sound using "winecfg". I capitalized the word "Installer" when I ran "wine Installer.exe" is that a mistake? How does capitalization affect things? Are some things case sensitive?
It seems like all the preparatory steps I took were for nothing. I'll know if the download will work in a few hours. Thanks to all of you for your help. If nothing else, I am learning things.
Last edited by Pharohs; September 15th, 2008 at 11:22 PM.
1. Do you have the latest version of Wine installed? (1.0) A lot of those installations listed as Gold on winehq actually use the most up to date development version of wine (later than 1.0).
2. Have you looked for WoW installation instructions on www.winehq.com ? Typically people leave comments on their installation attempts there and how they did it. I dont play video games on my computer so unfortunately I dont have any experience in installing such games.
It turns our that-other than the long download time- installation via download was rather easy and mostly painless. But, the entire experience was great, because I learned quite a bit. Thanks to everyone for their assistance.
Make sure your files are executable (by default newly copied files are not). In GUI: right-click, properties, the middle-most tab, make executable (near bottom).
EDIT: Ah, nevermind
[useless rant]
So, you come here to ask "Tell me counter opinions why ******* sux."?
I am no Microsoft/Windows fanboy, but recently all this "If it is done by Microsoft, it sucks! Lets show linux is better!" stuff is idiotic.
Just like there are "cool" things in real life, there must be "cool" things in internet. Using Linux and bashing Microsoft/Windows looks like a one to me. Everyone uses them, but then people belong to this marginaö group of people who can laugh at the masses. Just like conspiracy theorists do.
Why can't people just admit that Linux is no for serious gaming? I mean, "We got Wine!", and people forget that not everything works out of the box, nor as good as on Windows. Actually, nothing works BETTER. I for one couldn't get WoW to work. Nor Trackmania Nations Forever. Nor CS:S, Nor Soldat. Actually I've NEVER seen that Wine runs something FLAWLESSLY. And I consider a slight mouse cursor animation bug a flaw.
[/useless rant]
Actually, usually after I write something like that, I usually just leave the page without posting it. But, just for the sake of "big bad monopolistic giant inferior company" called Microsoft, I post this, and I say that Linux and Wine SUCK for gaming. (Yes yes, a lot of progress has been made, but that justifies nothing. And until everything works, everything sucks.)
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