Good question and as you can see in my 2nd point thats what I did
for flash and vcrun2005. That was really the easier way instead of
fixing the entire script. I tried previously installing all of d3dx9
and it did not help so I looked exactly what Winetricks did.
Pretty good, it really just takes the pieces that are needed for
this game to run.
I state now run as I actually got it to work. There was one thing
missing which I found on
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9620
You need to add the Direct3D key, from that time on it actually runs
pretty fast.
FYI the other url also uses winetricks but only installs vcrun2005
and the d3dx9.
Yeah, I see that -- what I'm essentially concerned with is people 'doing to much work'
to get things running in crossover, based on information contained in WineHQ AppDB. Not
all crossover users are that computer savvy, and not all information wrt Wine directly
applies to crossover -- you can meld the wine instructions into the crossover case, but
that hasn't been done here (wrt the tip&trick)...for example, the following line;
"sh winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2005"
..that's how wine users would do it -- crossover users could/would instead;
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Install Microsoft Directx Runtime - Modern
Both these targets are avialable in cxinstallwizard 'service packs & dependencies'.
With regards the flashplayer & firefox bit...if it were me, I would go about it
a different way, again using install targets in cxinstallwizard from the crossover
office suite (even if you don't own it, it's fine to use the demo version for such
tasks) - no manual downloads, no winetricks to edit, do everything inside crossover
using install targets that download/install things for you...stuff like this.
I'm just pointing out there's probably an easier way than following the Wine-centric
methods - unfortunately I don't own the title, so I can't cobble together some nice
easy crossover-centric instructions to save less computer savvy people from a whole
lot of stuff they may not understand...(and might not need to use anyhow)...
...oh, the regkey is still a manual operation however (unless my lobbying to have these
keys included/exposed in another way sees some light)...and perhaps COG-9.0 will be
released with similar install targets as crossover-office has included (.NET, IE6/7,
flash etc)...but it's too early to say for sure yet...
'food for thought' as they say 😎
Cheers!
