winex3 and installers don't want to work

carrett · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

i've tried to install:
-warcraft iii
-age of empires ii
-half-life

but inevitably, when using winex3 (version 3.0) the installers freeze...they load up real nice and pretty, everything seems to run real smooth, then it's fucked. anybody know what's up/how to fix it?
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:22 am Post subject:

That also happens to me when trying to install starcraft! Appears the installer menu, but when it's going to copy files, just 'hangs'! I think it's because I use NT native libraries instead of 9x ones... So I gotta install win9x if I want it to work.

carrett · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

anyone got a fix? POST IT!
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patsonrt1 · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:13 pm Post subject:

Just a guess but are you using the free version or the subscription version? I believe the free version is exactly the same except it does not support the copyright features on most games thus making the free version almost useless.
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carrett · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

paid.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:09 am Post subject:

carrett · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

ok, but there should be a fix for the paid version...anyone?
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David Holmes · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 31

In WineX in general you should be able to play these games without ANY Windows DLLs (only Wine). Have you tried using Point2Play which will install it's custom version of Wine in your home directory? Warcraft III and Half-Life work fine for me. Age of Kings won't work at all in anything earlier than WineX 3.1, it might sorta work in 3.1, but not very well.

carrett · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

yeah. aoeII installed fine with the new winex-transgaming, but when i try to run the program it pulls up a pretty loading screen and then does nothing.

anyone know?
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Occult · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 23

From my understanding, microsoft games (e.g. Age Of Empires II) are not very well supported in wine.

David Holmes · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 31

The lack of support is because their installers have never been supported. Just recently a degree of support for the installers has been added, but since nobody ever actually had the games install until now, the support for the games themselves is very lousy.

denatus · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Norway

www.transgaming.com has some forums that are veiwable by anybody, it has alot of problem solutions.