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Setting up and Using Wine

for those that want a Link... Wrapper 2.5.6RC1 can be found here. If you use the "Update" button in Winery after you install this, it will go back to 2.5.5 for now. This is a wrapper version, which you only keep 1 of (the latest is what you want when it comes to this). The engines are still normal (for the moment). I'm starting up my own company working on some game development (Urge Software), and working a different full time development job (to pay the bills), and taking care of Wineskin (among a few other things), so I don't get to some things as fast as I'd like... but I'm never bored :)
 
I'm not really sure what is up with WineHQ. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems like there are tons of things on there stating XYZ game works (or doesn't work). But no where are there links to the wrappers. Does this mean that the game is supposed to work out of virtual box? Just create a new wine wrapper and it should work?

Also, where is the best place to get wine wrappers? I've gotten a few from ThePortingTeam.com; but there aren't all THAT many there.
 
CylonGlitch said:
I'm not really sure what is up with WineHQ. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems like there are tons of things on there stating XYZ game works (or doesn't work). But no where are there links to the wrappers. Does this mean that the game is supposed to work out of virtual box? Just create a new wine wrapper and it should work?

Also, where is the best place to get wine wrappers? I've gotten a few from ThePortingTeam.com; but there aren't all THAT many there.
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WineHQ is about normal Wine usage. On Mac that means compile the source code yourself and run everything from command line... There are no wrappers or GUI integration. Luckily you can do most of the same stuff in Wineskin, just the interface is different. Like if it says to type winetricks d3dx9 then in Wineskin you'd go into the Winetricks GUI and select d3dx9 and run it... basically just covert whatever they say to do to the Wineskin method to do the same thing.
 
doh123 said:
WineHQ is about normal Wine usage. On Mac that means compile the source code yourself and run everything from command line... There are no wrappers or GUI integration. Luckily you can do most of the same stuff in Wineskin, just the interface is different. Like if it says to type winetricks d3dx9 then in Wineskin you'd go into the Winetricks GUI and select d3dx9 and run it... basically just covert whatever they say to do to the Wineskin method to do the same thing.
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Ah, sweet... gotcha. Seems like WineTricks is the unsung hero of wine.
 
Using USB devices with Wine(skin)

Using Wine with glucose monitoring software

Software not detecting USB connected device. Any idea why?

--Type 1 Diabetic Mac User in Dallas
 
I've been working on trying to get Borderlands to run. I installed it on my son's computer; patched it to the latest version and then installed the "No CD" hack and all was great. I then copied all that data to wine wrapper I created and it keeps complaining that it can't find the executable. Turns out the "No CD" hack is causing the problem; thus if I disable that . . . Secure ROM fails to see the CD and won't run the game.

Grrrr... frustrated, spent several hours, and nada. I tried to follow everything online, but no luck.

Anyone get Borderlands 1.41 working with Wine?
 
CylonGlitch said:
I've been working on trying to get Borderlands to run. I installed it on my son's computer; patched it to the latest version and then installed the "No CD" hack and all was great. I then copied all that data to wine wrapper I created and it keeps complaining that it can't find the executable. Turns out the "No CD" hack is causing the problem; thus if I disable that . . . Secure ROM fails to see the CD and won't run the game.

Grrrr... frustrated, spent several hours, and nada. I tried to follow everything online, but no luck.

Anyone get Borderlands 1.41 working with Wine?
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if its saying the EXE isn't found, that doesn't mean there is something bad with the EXE itself, just that it cannot find it. Make sure its named exactly right and is in the right spot... even if the EXE doesn't work, it should still find it.
 
doh123 said:
if its saying the EXE isn't found, that doesn't mean there is something bad with the EXE itself, just that it cannot find it. Make sure its named exactly right and is in the right spot... even if the EXE doesn't work, it should still find it.
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It is right, and it is in the right spot. It seems like it is doing something odd because of the hack that removes the CD Check. If I put back the original EXE in the same place, it at least gets to the CD check. But put the patched one and it says Can't find the Executable but it is there and right. Very odd, but according to what I've read online it isn't uncommon. :(
 
doh123 said:
Thats why I created Wineskin in the first place.
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Hey, sorry to threadjack but can I ask a quick question? What is the difference between the performance of Wineskin, Crossover, WineHQ etc etc. Is it just that yours and Crossover's gives a GUI, or is there an actual noticeable performance difference?

Right now I'm currently installing plain old Wine using terminal and it's taking a long time but I don't plan to back out unless it ends up failing.
 
arashb said:
Hey, sorry to threadjack but can I ask a quick question? What is the difference between the performance of Wineskin, Crossover, WineHQ etc etc. Is it just that yours and Crossover's gives a GUI, or is there an actual noticeable performance difference?

Right now I'm currently installing plain old Wine using terminal and it's taking a long time but I don't plan to back out unless it ends up failing.
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well you can make special Wine builds and settings per program with Wineskin, so you aren't stuck with a single version... this can lead to possible performance improvement. Can also use Crossover Wine versions. Wineskin isn't designed like Crossover or Normal Wine. its not about using Wine to run some programs, its about taking the programs and wrapping them up so you have a self contained app bundle at the end you can run like any other Mac app, and even move computer to computer.

Crossover puts in special hacks for certain games for things to run better, and they have a user friendly interface and program installation scripts that help in ease of use too.

but 98% of the time, the performance of a game is exactly the same through all of them.
 
doh123 said:
well you can make special Wine builds and settings per program with Wineskin, so you aren't stuck with a single version... this can lead to possible performance improvement. Can also use Crossover Wine versions. Wineskin isn't designed like Crossover or Normal Wine. its not about using Wine to run some programs, its about taking the programs and wrapping them up so you have a self contained app bundle at the end you can run like any other Mac app, and even move computer to computer.

Crossover puts in special hacks for certain games for things to run better, and they have a user friendly interface and program installation scripts that help in ease of use too.

but 98% of the time, the performance of a game is exactly the same through all of them.
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Ohhhh ok, I understand now. I read through your website and saw that part but assumed all of them were like that. Thanks.
 
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