On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:23 AM, jaceace01 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to install Civ 3 the other day. I think I might have got it installed right. Then when i went to run it, it did not work properly while detecting the cd in the cd rom tray. I figured i would ask this question to see what everyone thinks. > > Could it be that Civ 3 does not run due to the speed of the cd while running "through" wine? > > Im pretty sure that Civ3 requires a specific read speed to read the cd. > > I propose this fix. > > Create an ISO on the hard drive and read the cd through the hard drive ( which should produce a faster read speed? ). The only problem i had with that is - Wine will not detect an iso image as an actual Cd for purposes of Cd usage. You can do this through your os. Use a loopback device and set the drive type in winecfg. If your game is more picky and wants to read sectors, you'll need a cd emulator. > I propose fix for that. > > Allow wine to have a Cd emulator. that allows an "iso" to be mounted and "appear" to be a valid cd in a cd rom tray. Windows doesn't not provide this, so why should wine? -- -Austin
