Re: [orca-list] Wine

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hello,
Many thanks for that info.
The winetricks, what's that?
So I just download the dxwebsetup.exe and run it with the /s option with wine, correct?
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2011-06-01 at 12:49 Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Well, as an avid gamer and software developer I've had some really
> mixed results using wine for games. Here is basically what I found
> out.
>
> First, one thing I discovered is game performance goes way down when
> emulated. For example, the game I'm developing, Mysteries of the
> Ancients,  ran terrible under wine. This might be a pulse issue, I"m
> not sure, but the audio cut in and out, and certain things like the
> footstep sounds didn't play at all. Then, there was issues with
> certain input devices like joysticks that didn't seem to work through
> wine. It was for various issues like that why I'm now developing Linux
> specific ports of all of my new games using LibSDL and FMOD Ex.
>
> Second, issue was installing dependencies and the games as well. To
> get a game up and running such as Jim Kitchens games you have to
> install Sapi 5.1, which the installer doesn't talk, install DirectX 8
> via winetricks, and then run  his Winkit setup to finish adding VB
> dependancies etc. Then, if you want a game like Shades of Doom or GMA
> Tank Commander you pretty much have to do alt+n through all the
> dialogs to get through the setups. Its doable but less than ideal.
>
> That said there are sometimes work arounds for some of these issues.
> One thing is some apps such as DirectX can be installed using a silent
> install. If you pass the dexsetup.exe the /s switch it will install
> the entire thing without prompting you.If I'm not mistaken the same
> can be done for the Sapi 5.1 install as well. This makes it easier to
> install dependencies as the /s silent install setup will just install
> the program using the defaults.
>
> HTH
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