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RE: Howto for Slow Kids
by Viktor Jackson on Tuesday September 6th 2011, 23:58
You can quite safely create the keys and values with regedit. If you don't, default values (which don't work) will be used. I did winetricks d3dx9_??, but I believe it works just as well with the builtin libraries.

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RE: Howto for Slow Kids
by Brian on Wednesday September 7th 2011, 0:01
Also, should the values be like:

UseGLSL->disabled
-or-
UseGLSL->"disabled"

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RE: Howto for Slow Kids
by Maquis196 on Wednesday September 7th 2011, 6:58
It was just a brief howto to enable people just getting the game to know what settings/patches do the job to enable you to play it.

If you needed more info then what was there, then maybe it might be easier playing it on Windows! For everyone else, you should kinda know how to do all that if you use wine at a level required to play this game.

All in all, your howto was good work, when I get back on my computer with a proper mouse I shall see what to incorporate. There is such a thing as making a howto too in-depth. If you don't know how to set a direct3d reg entry for wine, you would google it and learn how, why, etc.

As for your questions, the only thing that we know for certain is that you need to create the Direct3D key in regedit and then set those options above. all the other things you mentioned aren't required afawk, so they werent included in the brief howto :)

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RE: Howto for Slow Kids
by Brian on Wednesday September 7th 2011, 12:51
Marquis196,

It sounds like I've stepped on your toes and I apologize for creating those feelings; my intention was only to help new wine users run this software. With a rich text editor, I might have been able to write a more well-formed howto.

For what it's worth, it sounds like I should keep running *nix as I am obviously struggling to figure out the finer points of Windows :)

Hopefully when you go to update your howto (feel free to delete my posts afterward - they will no longer be necessary) you might consider modeling after some of these well-written wine howto's:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3775 #this is the original Deus Ex
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13139
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1554 #this one is short and poignant, but covers all possible bases for errors

Or even utilizing some of these resources on how to write a good Howto:
www.google.com/?q=how%20to%20write%20a%20howto
tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html

Also, if you'd like a shell script that will automatically prepare wine and would work on many different Linuxes, I would have written one before you made that jackassy windows comment. However I'd be glad to write one for anyone else that needs one.

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