Re: D3D7 & WineD3D success

[Nick Seow]

On 11/21/05, Stefan Dösinger  wrote:
> > Doesn't the demo for Tomb Raider 3 rely on wierdo installshield stuff?
> > I have the full version of that game (it came with my videocard) and I
> > can't get past the installer using the winehq wine tree.
>
> Not that I know... It installed without any problems here. The demo is a
> WinZip self extractor, which extracts an old (non-DCOM) installshield
> installer, which worked out of the box for me.

Righteo - i'll have to have another look at it sometime to see if I
can make sense of what's going wrong.
> But, for the game to run, you have to set the Windows Version to Win98,
> otherwise the game will stop with a privileged instruction exception during
> startup.

Thanks,

Nick