Game Not Starting

[nujinini]

Hi!

Someone gave me a game that is .exe and so I installed wine and installed the game in it. Didn't get any error reports during installation.

However, when I click on the game in the start menu, nothing happens. I mean, it blinks but no games appear on screen. I tried to install it on an XP and it works fine.

May I please know how I may be able to check what would be wrong? Like, was there something I missed during the installation?

Thanks!

[techieMoe]

Hi!

Someone gave me a game that is .exe and so I installed wine and installed the game in it. Didn't get any error reports during installation.

However, when I click on the game in the start menu, nothing happens. I mean, it blinks but no games appear on screen. I tried to install it on an XP and it works fine.

May I please know how I may be able to check what would be wrong? Like, was there something I missed during the installation?

Thanks!

What game are you trying to install? WINE isn't an exact science. Some programs work well, and others don't work at all. The only 100% solution for playing Windows games is to use Windows.

You can check and see if your game is well supported on the WINE HQ Database:

WineHQ - Wine Application Database

[nujinini]

What game are you trying to install? WINE isn't an exact science. Some programs work well, and others don't work at all. The only 100% solution for playing Windows games is to use Windows.

You can check and see if your game is well supported on the WINE HQ Database:

WineHQ - Wine Application Database

Hi!

I guess your right. I was trying to install a game called "Around the World in 80 Days" and didn't see it listed on the link you gave. Thanks!

[rokytnji]

I don't game nujinini.

You might try uninstalling wine and either try
Manual - PlayOnLinux - Run your Windows applications on Linux easily!
Which comes with extra scripts for installing Windows games
Or setup a Sun Oracle Virtiual Box Machine with Windows installed inside it. I installed Windows 2000 Pro once as a exercise. Blew it away cuz it was just for practise.

Either one of those applications should be in your synaptic Package manager.

Happy Trails, Rok

[nujinini]

Hi Rok!

Yeah! VirtualBox was actually my next direction. Re the other site, i'll take a look at it too. Might be a good alternative. Thanks!

[MikeTbob]

If it's a DOS game, you might try using DOSBox.
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

[nujinini]

I installed dosbox the other day and have been enjoying playing pacman2 once again

[MikeTbob]

Nice! DOSBox is pretty cool for old games.
I got a new phone that has Galaga, I can't stop playing!

[coopstah13]

also, you should try running wine from command line and see if it outputs any error messages that have more detailed information in them

[elija]

In Wine, I often find that games won't run from the Wine menu but browsing to them in the "C drive" and running them from there works