Hi All; I have just successfully installed Microsoft: Age of Empires II, Age of Empires II-Conquerors expansion, Age of Empires III on Wine 1.3.7. No dll overides, no pissing about nothing, just dropped in the CD, mapped it to using winecfg and installed. Empires II installed directly from disk and would not run after the install until I applied the no_Cd_patch and not are fine. AoEIII has 3 CDs so copied all files to a directory and installed. Now, to get wine to behave itself, I have set the graphics up to be in a 1280x1024 window and works fine from my calling script: #!/bin/bash cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires III/" wine age3.exe Now, I don't want all of wine to be in a 1280x1024 window, only the games so, I set winecfg to turn off the virtual desktop and changed my script to this: #!/bin/bash cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires III/" wine -desktop 1280x1024 age3.exe But it didn't work, the virtual desktop appeared then disappeared and I get this on the command line: jserink@jserinki7 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires III $ wine -desktop=1280x1024 age3.exe err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\-desktop=1280x1024.exe" its pretty obvious that it things "-desktop" is a windows app. I have tried 2 dashes, an equals sing between the desktop and the resolution but its always the same. Any ideas on how I could do this? Cheers, john
