{"id":7989,"date":"2004-10-01T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/01\/winex-33-on-fedora-linux-core-2\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T02:06:37","slug":"winex-33-on-fedora-linux-core-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/01\/winex-33-on-fedora-linux-core-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WineX 3.3 on Fedora Linux Core 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being uterly bored today, I decided to try WineX to run a few games on my home Fedora Linux Core 2 workstation. WineX is a commercial version ($5 USD) of Wine project<\/a> produced by Transgaming Technologies<\/a>. WineX is mostly Wine, plus a few goodies, like better support for DirectX.<\/p>\n

It seems that Transgaming Technologies website is partially closed for renovation. Including the part of the store where you can buy WineX. So, I searched the web and found a stripped down version of WineX<\/a> which works on Fedora Linux and a couple of other distributions. It comes in RPM format, so all the installation and configuration thingy is pretty much minimized.<\/p>\n

When I tried to run this and that executable I started to get all sorts of debug and error messages. Brief search on Google<\/a> also provided me with an answer, which, pretty often, was to go to DLL-Files.com<\/a> website and download this or that file.<\/p>\n

Most of the games I tried ran the installation just fine. Everything was installing pretty nice, but I didn’t succeed in actually playing any game except for Sierra’s Half Life<\/a>. It was getting stuck every other time after accessing main menu, but when it was working – it was perfect. Age of Empires II, Sims, Singles, Colin McRae, Midtown Madness, and a couple of others – all refused to work, reporting problems about unhandled exceptions.<\/p>\n

It seems that some people do succeed in playing some of the games I failed, but I am certainly not alone. Overall, I think that the progress is very noticable. Last time I tried Wine\/WineX I could only install Counter Strike at best. I have no idea if the commercial versino of WineX is any better, but judging from the impressive list of supported games<\/a> it must be.<\/p>\n

I will try it again later and probably will pay my $5 USD. These guys are doing a great job and they need all the support they can get. Meanwhile, I am back to Quake III Arena<\/a> and a whole bunch of Linux games<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Being uterly bored today, I decided to try WineX to run a few games on my home Fedora Linux Core 2 workstation. WineX is a commercial version ($5 USD) of Wine project produced by Transgaming Technologies. WineX is mostly Wine, plus a few goodies, like better support for DirectX. It seems that Transgaming Technologies website … Continue reading WineX 3.3 on Fedora Linux Core 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t