Using my Suse 10.1 and WINE for my gaming needs...

**antidrugue** · 05-22-2006

I can certainly understand how you feel. But you'll need more patience then that if you want to run games in Linux

Then again, I don't really use Windows myself (once or twice a month maybe), but I don't really play games either (other then on my GameCube).

Don't give up. The site I gave you should be a good starting point:
http://frankscorner.org

Yesterday I did install Diablo 2 on my Debian Etch laptop and the whole process was quite straight forward.

Good luck!

**Mad Professor** · 05-22-2006

HOLY **** IT WORKS!!!! I just installed Halo through linux to windows dir, but I am having a problem to executing it.
I keep typing

wine C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe

and I keep getting this error

Code:

wine: cannot find 'C:Program'

any ideas on how to get around it???

EDIT: I also need to get around this one too.
I'm making Symbolic links to the folders in profiles to my /root

Code:

ln -s /windows/C/windows/profiles/root/My Documents  ~/root/My Documents

Error

Code:

ln: target `Documents' is not a director

The problem is the space between "My Documents" how do I get around this, because the programs also need to use my documents and desktop.

Thanks for your Time Mp
Well I figure how to get around it but still it won't execute, it relies on c:\windows\system32\drivers\secdrv.sys..
This sucks...

**antidrugue** · 05-23-2006

Originally Posted by Mad Professor

Code:

wine C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe

That won't work, it is not a valid bash path, try something more "linux":

Code:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Halo/halo.exe

So no "c:" and things like that.

Originally Posted by Mad Professor

Code:

ln -s /windows/C/windows/profiles/root/My Documents  ~/root/My Documents

When you have space, either you use " " to get around it, or backslash. For example those should work:

Code:

ln -s /windows/C/windows/profiles/root/My\ Documents  ~/root/My\ Documents

Code:

ln -s "/windows/C/windows/profiles/root/My Documents"  "~/root/My Documents"

Keep on trying, you're getting hot!

**Mad Professor** · 05-23-2006

Ok PROJECT ENDED!!!

I decided to call quits, it doesn't work. I can install it, but I can't execute it. *it crashes to desktop with no GUI of any type even while trying to execute it* So I really didn't know what was wrong because konsole wasn't telling me anything but numbers.
But what I think might have been happening was that directX was relying on windows drivers so it was getting the list but it fails because I never installed the drivers in windows. It could have been anything else for that matter. I only assumed that might be the problem.
It too much trouble, *I wouldn't mind if it did work, it would been an ok trade off* WINE was glitchy on SuSe 10, sometime it would link to the files and sometimes it would not link to my C Drive. I barly have any DirectX support, The drivers are too weak to run anything 3d except for the games on linux and Compiz/Xgl.
Not only that I don't have much use for linux except web browsing and listening to music which is why I want my games to run on it. I was looking for an alternative to Windows and if this did work, People would have had a choice, but it didn't. Its still going to take another 10-20 years before linux will make it big.

PLUS I'm tired, I havn't slept in awhile so I think I'll go catch some Z's

Thanks all for trying to help, even if I was a complete ASS...

**techieMoe** · 05-23-2006

There's no shame in knowing what OS works for you. It's quite apparent to me after your rants that you're just much more comfortable with Microsoft Windows and it does what you want. Good. Enjoy it. No need to bash Linux while you're at it.

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