Praedor:
I don't know what your problem is, but what I can say is that it's related to
your system, and not Winex. I can tell you that I've had unprecedented
success with installing and running Baldur's Gate 2....a game of such size
and complexity that I NEVER expected to see this soon in the "game". Pun
intended.
There are several issues with regard to Winex that you might want to
consider. First, I myself had wine installed at one time, which I
uninstalled and subsequently bought and downloaded. Incidentally the
subscription cost is only something like $6.00 a month, so I don't really
understand the ire you have at paying that either; I pay more for bubblegum
machine support in three days for my son than that.
Anyway, I noticed that winex was "tickling the hard drive", as you say.
Since my system was getting some age on it, I backed up my ~/ directory,
formatted the partitions, and reinstalled LM81 from scratch, with nothing
except KDE workstation, development stuff, and Enlightenment. After getting
my home directory back in place, I reinstalled winex, and slapped Baldur's
Gate 2, Installation disk 1 in the main CDROM just for grins and giggles.
I was thrilled to see an installation screen come up. I had to shunt to a
root Eterm and mount/unmount the CD's every time there was a CD change, but
that was probably because I havent taken the time to enable supermount or
something similar. In any case, the game installed and I brought it up (WITH
SOUND !!!). Needless to say, as this was something I've been waiting for for
quite a while, I've seldom been more thrilled.
The bottom line here is that I think you need to seriously reexamine your own
configuration from the standpoint of a fresh install that's never had Wine
installed at all.
Darklord:
Have you tried networking BG2, by any chance?
David Joham wrote:
>
> With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a "I
> tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions?" Email might be more
> constructive :)
>
> Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand.
>
> My experience with winex has been very good. It doesn't need much
> configuration because it tries to guess all of the configuration itself,
> for better or worse. Maybe I got lucky.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> David
Ditto here. Works great. I did change my config file to add my CDRW as well as
my first CD (which is a DVD) but other than that...flawless, even allowing me
to play networking with Diablo 2: LOD with my sons Windoze boxes...
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On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:18, you wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:43 pm, David Joham wrote:
> > With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a "I
> > tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions?" Email might be more
> > constructive :)
> >
> > Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand.
>
> I'm venting. What I am trying to accomplish is to simply get it to work,
> period.
>
> I install it, run winex, and it doesn't do anything - OK, it DOES create a
> config file in my .transgaming directory but it does NOT create a fake
> c:\windows drive and it apparently doesn't install a critical library that
> it needs to run: libMFC42.so.
>
> Doing a search on my system and there is NO libMFC42 anywhere. This is a
> very winex-specific file but it apparently didn't install it? Or if it
> did, it doesn't know where it stuck its own file? THIS pisses me off.
>
> Finally, there is a winesetup binary in the /usr/lib/transgaming/winex/bin
> directory. Running this app produces a tk window similar to something
> you'd see with codeweavers. It doesn't do anything but error out because
> it cannot find yet another file that it should have installed itself
> (otherwise why include this <broken> binary in the first place?).
>
> All this together is frustrating me to the point of yelling. I paid
> Transgaming money and have tried to use their winex several times over the
> months and there is apparently no change at all in the result. There is
> absolutely NO documentation. No instructions. Nothing. There isn't even
> anything useful in regards to my problems on their website under the
> various "Support" headings. I looked.
>
> Where is libMFC42 and why can't it find it? It is a winex file! I didn't
> do anything wierd, just installed the rpm. Why didn't it create a fake
> c:\windows directory or, barring that, why isn't there any documentation or
> instructions on creating all this oneself?
>
> There.
>
> praedor
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