Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote: > No one if forcing you to run the latest Wine version. Wine is beta software, > so there is not guarantee that the newest version is "best", although it > usually is. If you had bothered to take a look in the AppDB, you could have > read that e.g. Settlers IV has a Gold rating (i.e. runs perfectly). >
I think you misread what he said. He ran Settlers IV himself and it fails to run, regardless of what the AppDB says (which probably reflects an older wine version). > As for World of Warcraft, it does not even run with a vanilla Wine, but > requires special patches. > > > Grave regards, > > Alexander N. Sørnes > > Torsdag 13 juli 2006 23:15, skrev Martin Owens: > >> OK I'm quite upset now, when I compiled the cvs version of wine on my >> own computer and Pharaoh started working again I thought great, fixed! >> but oh no one of the comunity computers I administer is running ubuntu >> same as me but their getting the package from the wine apt repository. >> >> so I was happy to 0.9.17 was available because I thought it would >> allow this game to work again, imagen my suprise when I find it still >> doesn't work. and even better when I try to run it from the command >> like it segfaults. >> >> I'll provide logs and things if asked. >> >> * Pharaoh - used to work back in 0.9.15 and still does in cvs 2006-07-02 >> * C&C Generals - Fails to run >> * Discworld Noir - Fails to install >> * Imperialism II - Graphical tiles issue (DDRAW) >> * Industry Giant II - Fails to run >> * Star trek SFC3 - Fails to run >> * Tropico - Fails to run >> * CSI - Fails to install >> * Fugawi - Fails to display maps >> * Settlers IV - Fails to run >> >> This isn't a list of failures, this is a list of every program I have >> tried in the last month with wine, not _one_ works. this is an >> incredibly sad situation and I know the interfaces are difficult but >> could you concentrate on getting more thing working than just making >> sure World of WarCraft has a nice fps. >> >> Grave Regards, Martin Owens >> > > > >
