WineX Help

[Benjamin Fisher]

Well, I never had a problem with WarCraft III.  Works flawlessly.  One thing you should do is make 
sure that you're running X in 16-bit mode.  Otherwise, WarCraft III gets confused and really slow.  
IMHO, setting the desktop option is better.  Doesn't matter what you set it at, so long as it's not 
the max that's in your XF86Config.  Other than that I'm not sure.  I don't give it any options 
("winex /mnt/game/Warcraft III/War3.exe").  But it does take about 45-60 seconds to load up.  Soon 
as it loads, its just as fast - actually, faster in my opinion.  But it takes a very long time to 
load up.  I'm behind an erroneous MS Proxy @ my college, so I haven't been able to test Battle.NET. 
 People have gotten it to work as far as I know.  I use a GeForce4 TI4200, though.  You're using 
Gentoo, right?  That's what I've been using for several months (and loving it!).

Oh yeah.  Make sure to rename the movies directory.  The movie playback was fine, but it'd crash 
indefinitely if I tried to escape out of a movie.  Got very annoying.

Other than that, I'd have to mess with it.  I've always gotten pretty good assistance on the forums 
at TransGaming, though.

Now if I could just get MOHAA working...

Benjamin W. Fisher

----- Original Message -----

From: Jason Clinton 


To: kclug at kclug.org

Subject: WineX Help

Re: Anyone here had any experience with WineX? I have Warcraft III and a 

Re: Radeon 7500 video card and I bought the WineX subscription and I cannot 

Re: get it to work. I've navigated through Transgaming's pathetic site for 

Re: hours and hours and haven't been able to glean anything out of the forums. 

Re: 

Re: I've tried: 

Re: * Reinstalling three times including using winex-cvs and completely 

Re: purging my /tmp dir. 

Re: * Reinstalling XFree86 4.2.1 and then a newer release of XFree86 4.2.1 

Re: * Upgrading Warcraft III to the most recent version. 

Re: * Applying a NO-CD crack to the game thinking that it might be a problem 

Re: with the CD-ROM 

Re: * Using a CD-Key generator to try and different CD-Key 

Re: * Deleting the Movies dir. 

Re: * I've tested OpenGL several times. I get 1,400 FPS in glxgears. It 

Re: works fine with all other OpenGL Screensaver and Applications. 

Re: * I changed window managers. 

Re: * Changed from AGP 4x to AGP 1x 

Re: * Checked my DRI permissions. 

Re: * With and without the Desktop variable set in config 

Re: * With and without Managed mode 

Re: 

Re: I use this command line to start the game: 

Re: 

Re: $ winex -winver win98 War3.exe -opengl -nosplash 

Re: 

Re: If I drop the -opengl flag, it will run but only for about five mins 

Re: before it completely locks up system and there are tons of graphics 

Re: anomolies. 

Re: 

Re: With the -opengl flag, the first time I run it, the OpenGL driver starts 

Re: and changes the video mode using the XVidMode Extention and then sets 

Re: the gamma. It then creates a black box to fill the 800x600 on the 

Re: screen. Immediately following this, "Unhandled exception, starting 

Re: debugger..." appears in the xterm window and I have to forcibly kill the 

Re: OpenGL window using xkill and then kill all wine processes. Every 

Re: following the first crash, use the same command as above and the video 

Re: mode never changes and the black box is never draw by I get the exact 

Re: same message. 

Re: 

Re: Here's the wierd thing: 

Re: If I forcibly disable DRI by commenting it out the module in 

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config then War3.exe will start in OpenGL Software mode 

Re: rendering about 1 frame every three seconds which leads me to believe 

Re: that WineX is not properly mapping DirectX call to the OpenGL calls that 

Re: the features that the present driver supports (all things are supported 

Re: by software but not all things are supported by all hardware) 

Re: 

Re: I'm at my wit's end and I must have my games! Help! :) 
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