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None of my games are working in Wine

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Okay, with the exception of StarCraft I, every game I've installed with with Wine will not run (I've tried C&C 3, Worms Armageddon, and Rome Total War). All the games install fine, but when I try to run them (from the winefile), the screen flickers a bit (like it's trying to close out winefile) and then stops. And when I exit out of the winefile it looks like it has reverted my version of Ubuntu back to 10.08 (I think, the one I currently have is 11.04).

This is driving my crazy, as I cannot get any game (with the exception of StarCraft, and even then, the sound doesn't work) to work. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

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answered 2 Years ago rialhirt · Accepted Answer

First of to help you i need some more information:

Have you checked AppDB from Wine if these games are running fine ?
see: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1308

As you can see it is gold rated so it should work. Also the version who is gold rated is the latest wine (1.3.25).

Do you have the latest version of wine?

Do you have the same version of the games who are reported to work in appdb ?

Do you have your real graphics driver installed (fglrx or nvidia) and not those shitty oss drivers (I mean you just can play with the oss driver, its just reality)

Did you follow the instructions on the wine page? (in AppDB) for install and startup etc.... (Howto)

How do you start the games ? Please post your commands..

Also i would not recommend using some gui to start the games, you cant see the console output with my leads to the clue of some missing dlls....

UPDATE:

I forgot to ask: Do you have the games installed in a separate wine prefix for each game ? if not -> you should do...

Thanks

M.

Update 2:

Go to: http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu or https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa and get the newest version. They are stable!

Put this into an console: "glxinfo | grep vendor" it should put out nvida or ati and NOT mesa

The instructions are in the appdb from wine normally on one of the versions. for Armagedon they are here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1744 (scroll down a bit)

Well this is not the way you should start your games. you cant read any warnings and i'm not sure if it is correctly loaded anyway. The correct (working) way for me is:

cd /path/to/game
WINEPREFIX=/Path/to/Prefix wine Game.exe

For more info about Wineprefix see: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-faf9617c53607e583f6e6ff70a4ac9522d490faf