Fwd: The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009)

[David Gerard]

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From: David Gerard 
Date: 2010/1/6
Subject: Re: The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009)
To: Reece Dunn

2010/1/5 Reece Dunn :
> 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.

The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009)

[Reece Dunn]

2010/1/6 David Gerard :
> whoops, sending to list as well!
>
> 2010/1/5 Reece Dunn :
> > 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