Re: MS Flight Simulator?

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Gerry Visel <gcvisel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    An update on my attempts to fly again...
>
>    Trying to install the newer MS Flight Simulator X resulted in a
>  lockup when it asked for DVD disk 2.  I had to eject the DVD tray with a
>  wine eject command in a second window, and it would never recognize that
>  disk 2 was inserted.  Multiple tries got me no further, though it had
>  installed a lot of files from disk 1.
>
>    So I backed up a bit and dug out my old copy of FS98.  It was
>  contained wholly on one CD, which did install just fine.  So far, so
>  good.
>
>    When I then tried to run it from the Wine menu, it would start up
>  fine, with the engine running, and responding to controls.  However,
>  when I taxied very far or tried to take off, wine would crash.  When I
>  ran it from a terminal window where I could watch, with:
>         env WINEPREFIX="/home/gerry/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files
>         \Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\FltSim98.exe"
>  I got this as it loaded:
>         fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil))
>         fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a
>         fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d8e0,0x00000000),
>         stub!
>  and this when it crashed:
>         Segmentation fault
>
>    Anybody got any ideas on how to proceed?  Is anybody else flying it?
>
>    I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on an Intel box, without a Winders partition
>  any more.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Gerry
>
>
>

I  don't think this app has  ever worked well,  FWIW.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7775&iTestingId=20357


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