A quick question about a "wine" problem

[Diss]

Hi

I have installed MAtrix Games "Battles in Normandy" using Wine. I must confess i don't know if this game works with wine.

It put a link on the desktop but if i double click it nothing happens.

If i try and run it from a terminal i get this message whcih seems to be saying it is trying to start the program but is looking in the wrong place:

diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine "Battles In Normandy"
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system\\Battles In Normandy.exe": Module not found

Am i doing something wrong?

Thanks

Diss

 

[kiwi]

i think you're just getting the name wrong. cd to the dir it's in then type 'wine B<press tab here>' this should enter the exact name for you.

 

[Diss]

thanks kiwi

tried that but no luck

i get this:

diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c$ cd /home/voteslave/.wine/drive_c/"Matrix Games"
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine Battles\ In\ Normandy/
wine: cannot find 'Battles In Normandy/'
disse@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ ls
Battles In Normandy
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine Battles\ In\ Normandy.exe/ wine: cannot find 'Battles In Normandy.exe/'
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$

the LS command shows that the file iis there???
but it doesn't work

any suggestions?

thanks

Diss

 

[Pajeh]

thanks kiwi

tried that but no luck

i get this:

diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c$ cd /home/voteslave/.wine/drive_c/"Matrix Games"
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine Battles\ In\ Normandy/
wine: cannot find 'Battles In Normandy/'
disse@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ ls
Battles In Normandy
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine Battles\ In\ Normandy.exe/ wine: cannot find 'Battles In Normandy.exe/'
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games$

the LS command shows that the file iis there???
but it doesn't work

any suggestions?

thanks

Diss

Why do you have a / after .exe ? try

diss@ubuntu:~/.wine[/email]/drive_c/Matrix Games$ wine Battles\ In\ Normandy.exe

 

[Mr Potatohead]

Battles in normandy is a folder , cd into it and use ls to find the executable.

 

[Diss]

doh!

Thanks - made progress but still get:

diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games/Battles In Normandy$ wine BattlesI nNormandy.exe
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Matrix Games \\Battles In Normandy\\BattlesInNormandy.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Matrix Games\\Ba ttles In Normandy\\BattlesInNormandy.exe" failed, status c0000135
diss@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Matrix Games/Battles In Normandy$

I couldn't see anything on there website about this running in Wine - so looks like its just not compatible.

Is there a free version of Cedega?

thanks again

Diss

 

[Mr Potatohead]

MSVCP60.dll isn't included with wine by default. You need to put a copy of the windows dll in your .wine/drive_c/windows/system/ folder.

 

[Pajeh]

cedega cvs is free but I didn't find it too great, but personally I have a winxp partition for if I want to game.

 

[Diss]

thanks pajah

that worked - sort of
at least the game ran, though not properly - but i think thats just cos its not suitable for linux - i had lots of direct draw probs

cheers

Diss