Questions Tagged With game

King Games using Ubuntu

Yvonne Callaghan — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:32:40 -0400

Why can't I play King Games using Ubuntu Linux? On the site a message states that I need windows to play their games. I don't have windows internet explorer because it kept crashing. Is there anything I can do to get round this please?

which version of wine to use with Spore patch?

JoelFan — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:59:57 -0400

My Ubuntu system has Wine 1.2 installed. I am trying to install Spore using http://linuxoutlaws.com/spore . It says to "Grab the latest Wine source (1.1.4, at the time of writing)" and then to apply a patch. If I am going to apply this patch, which version of Wine source should I "grab"? 1.1.4? 1.2? 1.3.4?

Can't run NFS Most Wanted on Wine

Dezfor — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:55:00 -0400

I run Debian lenny amd64, video card ATI x1250 on Catalyst 9.2.

Kernel: 2.6.26 Wine version : 1.1.42

When i try to launch NFS Most Wanted v.1.3 I get error:

$ wine "/home/media/nfs_be/speed.exe"
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (0): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f81c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909198916 (as fourcc: DF16) WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909198916) in the format lookup table
wine: Call from 0x7eddcdd3 to unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateEffectFromResourceA, aborting
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000100 flags 1 addr 0x7eddcdd3

Any ideas? In winecfg i enabled "allow DirectX to hold mouse in it's window" and "emulate virtual desktop"

Native games for Linux

luc_martineau_luc — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:20:06 -0400

Without using wine or dosbox, which good games has a linux version ?

FreeCiv
OpenTTD

Games may be a clone or an original one.

Mouse pointer gets trapped in game windows

atilla — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:45:21 -0400

I think this is an SDL "feature". I am playing a game in a window, I receive an instant message, pause, want to reply, but cannot because all my keypresses are handled by the game and then discarded, so no alt+tab, and the mouse pointer cannot leave the game window. Is there a way to take the focus away from those SDL windows?