WINE and MM2

[Anthony]

OK, I am trying to run mm2 on ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon with WINE 0.4.96

It didn't work at first but I am getting round to fiddling with it. What I now need is DirectX 7? Or 8 or nine or even 10. But I have almost got it working I think.

If anyone has got it working the please let me know. If not then Ill keep trying myself.

[Franch88]

I haven't never used a Linux distribution. I've only tried an old Linux Mandrake distribution with boot through CD.
MM2 needs the DirectX 7.0, and I don't think that you can install the 10.0, it's also useless.

[Anthony]

do you know where i can download DirectX for WINE then?

[Franch88]

Try to do a search on Google. I've found this interesting page about DirectX 9 for WINE: https://directxwine.sourceforge.net/.
The newest DirectX versions has also the older.

[quicksilver]

I've been playing about with Ubuntu 9.04, WINE and MM2.

Just install wine, run the MM2 setup file and then run the game afterwards.

Didn't have to do anything regarding DirectX...and it even ran quite well.

[Anthony]

I've been playing about with Ubuntu 9.04, WINE and MM2.

Just install wine, run the MM2 setup file and then run the game afterwards.

Didn't have to do anything regarding DirectX...and it even ran quite well.

Yes WINE 0.9.something fixed MM2 mostly, though can't say I have tried it for a while. I have also trie MM1 Demo, that works pretty well too.

edit: and the menus were fixed in 1.1.6 apparently

Bugs fixed in 1.1.16:

3107 listview columns do not sort in Acemoney
7385 Microsoft Golf 3.0 crashes on startup
10213 Pegasus Mail: program closes when sub-program closes
10631 3DMark01 - Test4 Nature is extremely slow
11164 midtown madness 2 menus are not displayed correctly
11861 regedit does not correctly display unicode value data
11864 iTunes - Show in Windows Explorer link broken
12119 Dialog with enu does not display the menu
12345 Live For Speed S2: could not detect suitable screen modes
12701 watchtower library - listview works slow and wrong
13389 Victoria, an Empire under the sun. Crashes on startup
13676 Lemmings Revolution: does not start anymore, still did in 0.9.43.
14308 Dungeon Keeper 2 cursor fails to render correctly with hardware rendering enabled
14310 Dungeon Keeper 2 cannot be navigated with the arrow keys
14433 GuildWars 3D rendering broken
14469 America does not run
14780 FoxPro for Windows 2.5 setup.exe crashes with page fault
14964 Missing symbols in Microsoft Word (symbol.ttf is required)
14982 Supreme Commander: Lighting changes on zoom level
15063 Silent hill 4 demo crashes very early
15528 Miranda has severe problems showing history in conversation windows
15545 Photomatix Pro works in 32-bit but crashes in 64-bit Ubuntu
15559 winealsa sound regression: scratchiness/stutter in multiple games
15641 Tile Studio 2.55: Toolbar icons get resized when switching to Map mode
15907 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 crashes after SelectStyleFont
16199 Miranda IM options page crash
16556 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 New User Box displays training text incorrectly
16818 Switched Y/Z on german keybord settings
16908 memory leak in function SetWindowRgn (?)
16917 file dialog to select attchments slows down for many files
16990 Call of Duty 2 demo install fails
17050 eMule: Ends up eating all the memory (swap included)
17117 Chicken Tournament: needs ComputeSphereVisibility
17288 Keyboard stops working in Halo Demo
17369 VMware Intrastructure Client 2.5 cannot validate disk capacity while creating new VM
17373 eac3to: large files don't work - NtMapViewOfSection?
17409 crypt32/chain tests fail with +heap enabled
17411 crypt32/encode tests fail with +heap enabled
17413 riched32/editor tests fail with +heap enabled
17414 user32/dde test crashes if +heap enabled
17415 several tests (jscript:run, msi:msi, netapi32:access) crash if +heap enabled
17417 winetest causes msvcrt:file test to fail
17429 winhlp32 crash when run with no options
17490 win16 app fails with unimplemented function krnl386.exe.GetShortPathName
17500 libs/wine: Japanese character wrongly reported as invalid
17502 Portal: Prelude 1.1.5 installer has improper placement of directory selecti