Fwd: The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009)
whoops, sending to list as well! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/1/6 Subject: Re: The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009) To: Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com> 2010/1/5 Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com>:
2/ the major issues appear to be in the application launchers used by different game providers (most of which are in the current wine implementation of the IE browser ActiveX control);
Curious question: you tested with IE6, how do things work if you install IE7? Any better? (I installed IE7 with winetricks to see if I could get the ActiveX control for our work VPN going. It didn't work, and I didn't expect it to - it uses ActiveX to completely take over and try to secure a Windows installation, and I think it just recoiled in horror when it found itself in Wine on Linux - but I routinely use it now to check website rendering. It's really horrible. But useful.) - d.
2010/1/6 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>: > whoops, sending to list as well! > > 2010/1/5 Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com>: > >> 2/ the major issues appear to be in the application launchers used >> by different game providers (most of which are in the current wine >> implementation of the IE browser ActiveX control); > > Curious question: you tested with IE6, how do things work if you > install IE7? Any better? If you read down into the comments on the various game vendors (e.g. Big Fish Games), I noted that with IE7 installed via winetricks, the game launcher crashes. I have not done any extensive investigation/analysis at this point (maybe for the February report :)). >From experience: - Wine/Gecko will display some pages and work with some vendors, but not all - IE6 works - IE7 crashes when used as an ActiveX component (but works as a browser via iexplore) - IE8 does not work (even as a browser) when using the IE7 recipe See the original report for comments on what works with each vendor. - Reece
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