Win(e)SPMBT under Linux. (Ubuntu 7.10)

runequester · #1 May 1st, 2009, 01:25 AM

Im on the newest version of Ubuntu, using the Wine version that was in the repo's, and the game works great for me. With one exception.. if sound is on, after a few turns, the icon panel on the right hand side will vanish, and the game more or less hangs.

Any suggestions ?

PatG · #2 May 5th, 2009, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by runequester

Im on the newest version of Ubuntu, using the Wine version that was in the repo's, and the game works great for me. With one exception.. if sound is on, after a few turns, the icon panel on the right hand side will vanish, and the game more or less hangs.

Any suggestions ?

I had the same problem with Debian/E17 - in my case it appeared to be buggy proprietary video drivers. Removed them and now it's working properly.

nuNce · #3 November 27th, 2009, 10:22 AM

I'm running winSPWW2 (which should be the same as running winSMBT) under Ubuntu 9.10 which I strongly suggest, as has wine 1.0,1 included in it's repos. The game works absolutely fine with it, as long as it is run in windowed mode. I have the full version, and if you try to run it by double clicking the exe the launcher will not allow you to use the enhanced features. You can solve this by using the terminal command to launch the exe: "wine directory/to/the/game/WW2GameOptions.exe".

As for the disappearing interface issue, when it happens play with the visible gui, click "Preferences" or "Unit view" until the interface appears again and save the game. Restart the application and it will be fine again.

I had some sound issues too. By using the ALSA driver you can have decent quality and not delayed sounds with minor stuttering.

Hope it helps.

runequester · #4 August 21st, 2010, 02:18 AM

This hasn't been updated in a while, but with Lucid Lynx and the most recent version of wine, Steel Panthers works perfectly both in full screen and windowed, and with sound on or off.

I can die happily now