http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36492
--- Comment #4 from Susan Cragin susancragin@earthlink.net --- Hello Anastasius,
First, I should say that NatSpeak installs and runs very well in a 32-bit wine prefix, and that's what I use when I run it. I'm very happy with its current performance. NatSpeak has had a 64-bit "version" for a couple of editions now. It's really a 32-bit program with handles that make it run on a 64-bit system. But there is no reason that I know of why it shouldn't run on a 64-bit wine prefix, and I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't. Some of this is pre-emptive, since I have heard that NatSpeak is working on a true 64-bit version. In fact, it would be odd if they were not, since the program is very resource-intensive, and would benefit greatly from using more RAM, among other things.
The second reason I want to fix it is that it seems to be both a very small problem and a regression. NatSpeak installed and ran 64-bit in wine version 1.4, and I could upgrade from there to 1.6, but starting at 1.6 it only installs in a 32-bit wineprefix.
I can't do regression tests any more because compiling wine is now too complicated for my limited skills. I've tried with the directions several times.
Winetricks: I install with winetricks fontfix only. I was told that vcrun2010 helps avoid some errors, but whatever functionality it provides is minor and I don't use it, so I don't bother installing it. Sometimes I turn on font smoothing to gray, assuming that it can't hurt. I don't remember whether I did. Winecfg I set to Vista (sometimes but not this time to Windows 8), and I set the outgoing audio to pulseaudio rather than "default." The former makes it install correctly; the latter is required for it to work.