I renamed .wine, created a new one with wineprefixcreate, installed and now it works! I had to rename the movies still, but battle.net works without any further changes.
I should have tried this on my own, but because of my early (2005) successes with wine i had assumed i would never have to reinstall the windows stuff, since i would just carry my /home around as i changed system.
A great thank you to all that helped.
Thanks for the reply, I’ll test that later on when I get the opportunity.
(PS. Im Marco da Silva )
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, awdoyle wrote:
> Then I get a popup labeled Windows Update Setup, saying:
>
> Setup has detected a newer version of Internet Explorer already installed on this system.
Maybe it’s because the default windows version in wine recently changed to XP?
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:39:30 -0500
“cttw” wrote:
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> John Drescher wrote:
> > I heard that battlenet does not work with wine versions > 0.9.48 but
> > for me that is fine because I never use that.
> >
>
>
> Unfortunately i pretty much only play on battle.net.
>
>
theres a patch here to make bnet work again:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787
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On 08/04/2008, cttw wrote:
> No. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it.
> Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of?
You can try a different wineprefix without actually deleting the old
one – try creating a fresh wineprefix and install it in that. From the
command-line, do something like:
export WINEPREFIX=.wine-warcraft
wineprefixcreate
- this creates an entirely fresh fake Windows directory, and you can
then try to install afresh in that.
If that works, you know Wine works, and you can then experiment with
what files need to be copied over for saved games, etc. to be loaded.
- d.
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:35:33 -0500
“cttw” wrote:
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> Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:40 -0500
> > “cttw” wrote:
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> > > Nvidia 7600 GS
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> > have you tried with a clean .wine directory ?
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> No. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it.
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> Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of?
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just make a backup of your .wine directory
mv .wine .wine_bak
then run wineprefixcreate
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John Drescher wrote:
> I heard that battlenet does not work with wine versions > 0.9.48 but
> for me that is fine because I never use that.
>
Unfortunately i pretty much only play on battle.net.
Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:40 -0500
> “cttw” wrote:
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No. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it.
Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of?
Marco da Silva wrote:
> Hy all,
>
> Is it possible to change the users profiles folder?
> what I what is instead of them using “C:\\windows\\profiles\\username\\”
> I would like to set it has “Z:\\home\\username\\”
>
> I tried setting that in system.reg and user.reg, but with no sucess.
You probably didn’t change it in all places. I think this is the full list:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList]
ProfilesDirectory
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
APPDATA
USERPROFILE
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:01 AM, cttw wrote:
> Interesting. Personally i get a black screen at start. I renamed the Movies and i run with -opengl.
I do not have the Movies folder renamed. And it works for me with or
without the -opengl switch but I do have an GeForce4 Ti 4200 which can
work fine without the opengl switch. Newer nVidia cards removed some
functionality from the GPU that makes -opengl a requirement.
> If i run with -window i get a black window instead of a black screen. There are countless forum threads about this problem, and not one has a solution. There also seems to be a problem connecting to battle.net, but i haven’t made it that far yet. When i played it some time ago i could do everything, battlenet, and even run it in directx mode for laughs!
>
I heard that battlenet does not work with wine versions > 0.9.48 but
for me that is fine because I never use that.
> My wine version is 0.9.58. I installed warcraft and the expansion from original CDs, and the latest official patch removed the cd-check, so there is not even a crack involved. My last ditch effort was going to be reverting to an old wine version. Now i am out of ideas, and would appreciate any help.
>
Using wc3 in wine in the last 3 years has not required a crack. Well
at least for me.
John
