Game -Wine

[DougieFresh4U]

I have installed a game using wine. A few months back it worked great. I have had to redo it because of a fresh install. When I click it to open , it comes up and stays for a few seconds then disappears. What may be causing this to happen/
Thanks

[noerrorsfound]

Did you... take a picture of your monitor?

Alt | Print Screen didn't work for you?

[kostkon]

Try to run it from the terminal and see what error messages you get.

I assume that now you are trying to run the game with a newer version of Wine and maybe it does not work with it. Sometimes this happens with Wine. A newer version of it breaks some games that worked with the previous version. It's rare, but it happens.

[Ferrat]

could you start the game in a terminal window then write the output you get? =)

Edti: Damn kostkon, took you 5min to send that in? wasn't there before ^^

[DougieFresh4U]

could you start the game in a terminal window then write the output you get? =)

Edti: Damn kostkon, took you 5min to send that in? wasn't there before ^^

Because game uses 'wine', what would I type in terminal, Sorry for sounding like a "dummy"

[Urilockz]

You should type...

wine game

[cogadh]

Just to be a little more specific, the proper usage of Wine is like this:

cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/game/directory/
wine game.exe

Change the "game/directory" and "game.exe" to match your actual game. If you run the game like this, any error messages produced by Wine will be output to the terminal, which you can then copy/paste here. Please make sure you use the forum "[code]" tags when you post the output, it will make it much more readable.

[DougieFresh4U]

Just to be a little more specific, the proper usage of Wine is like this:

cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/game/directory/
wine game.exe

Change the "game/directory" and "game.exe" to match your actual game. If you run the game like this, any error messages produced by Wine will be output to the terminal, which you can then copy/paste here. Please make sure you use the forum "[code]" tags when you post the output, it will make it much more readable.

Ok, so the name of the game is Mah Jong Medley
So what would the exact code in terminal be for this to attempt opening? It's in the c/ folder in wine

[DougieFresh4U]

dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ wine mah jong medley.exe
fixme:atl:AtlModuleInit SEMI-STUB (0x4042c8 0x404578 0x400000)
fixmele:CoInitializeSecurity (0x12ae80,-1,(nil),(nil),4,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Viewpoint Manager Service"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0004,0x0000,0x00000000,(nil),0x0001, 0x00000000,0x7e2f3984,(nil)): stub
fixme:advapieregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mah.exe": Module not found
dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot

[stinger30au]

dougie@DougiesLeanMachine:~$ wine mah jong medley.exe

you can *NOT* have spaces in your file names at the shell prompt or linux will have a spit.

if oyur file names have spaces in them, one way round this is to shove the files inside qoutes. your command should look like this instead

wine "mah jong medley.exe"

copy and paste everything above and it should go fine