Hey, all,
Running Wine 20050111 under SuSE 9.2 (SuSE 9.2 package from sourceforge.net).
Wine was working fine until about an hour ago; I had several programs installed and working and did not have this error (afaik).
Then I decided to install Septerra Core ( http://www.lith.com/sites/septerra/ , don't download the demo, though; it is of no use in debugging, because the demo install does not write to the Registry... but I'm getting ahead of myself).
The installer ran fine, but Septerra Core has a bug (under Windows as well as Wine), where it does not write its Registry entries to the Registry. This is a well-documented issue, so I was able to find the correct Registry entries and add them to system.reg, and the main game now runs well (with a couple of caveats that now seem related to this problem).
But I must have done something wrong (even though I only added three keys to LOCAL_MACHINE/Software, and didn't touch anything else at that time), because now I'm getting the above error when I try to run ... well, anything.
Weirdly, this does not affect Septerra Core, which runs fine-- except for the Quicktime movies scattered throughout the game, which do not run at all, although I have QT 6.3 as installed via Wine by another game. I wouldn't care so much (most of the cutscenes within the game use the game engine), except that I'm almost positive that the final "reward" cutscene for finishing the game (which I have not yet done for the first time) is a Quicktime movie, and I have played enough of this game in the past to know that I *really* want to know what the stupid "Legacy of the Creator" actually is (this is the big mystery of the entire game, after all).
I thought that maybe the QT 6.3 previously installed wasn't being picked up because it was installed by another game, so I tried to install QT 6.3 again with the intention of doing a Full or Custom install rather than the Recommended I had done before.
What did I get?
holly@SuSE:~/games/Septerra_Core> wine /media/dvdrecorder/storage/+drivers/QT6pt3/QuickTimeInstaller.exe
Warning: the specified System directory L"%SystemRoot%\\system" is not accessible.
holly@SuSE:~/games/Septerra_Core>
Doesn't work if I cd to the directory first, either. Not good. I went back into the registry and changed a couple of cases to match the actual case of the path (C:\ to c:\ and System to system), but that didn't matter.
Other things seem to have gone south as well; I just tried to run Planescape: Torment, which had been running just fine, and it wanted me to put CD 2 in the D:\ drive (CD-ROM)... which would be normal, except for the fact that I copied all four disks' contents to the game directory and redirected the CD locations in the game's .ini file to the game folder on the hard drive (drive Y:), and this was working fine for the three days I was playing it last week. Something has changed, it definitely seems to be the Wine system.reg (it's not the Torment .ini file, which is still correct and contains no reference to drive D:), and it's doing this by itself for some reason, since things that I didn't have any reason to or interest in changing are now apparently different.
Does anybody know what has gone screwy and how I can fix it? And while I've got you, does anybody know what I might need to do to get Wine to run the game's *.db movie files (whose properties list them as Quicktime-video in my file manager) with the Wine-installed Quicktime?
Thanks, Holly _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
