Wheel Of Time Forum

I was able to successfully install The Wheel of Time in a Win98 bottle on the following machine:

Soyo SY-7ISA+ Intel i815 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 866 MHz Processor
512 MB SDRAM
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8x 256 MB DDR
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card (SB0220)
Samsung CD-RW/DVD Drive Model: TS-H492A/RSWN
Dual Boot openSUSE Linux 10.3/Windows XP Pro
CodeWeavers CrossOver Games for Linux Version 7.1.2

I was also able to install the latest update (WoTPatch333b.exe) and Direct3D patch (WoTD3DPatch2.exe).

When I attempted to start the game using the autoexec.exe file in the CD-ROM #2 root directory, both the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive were accessed for several seconds, but eventually the activity stopped and no windows or screen changes ever took place, and the game processes terminated. I noticed when installing the game that the installer gave the option to install QuickTime 4 since it is needed to play the in-game movies. I made installations with and without the QuickTime 4 installation, but neither made a difference in the game, and the QuickTime 4 installation in the bottle would not play a movie independently. I used the Kaffeine Player in openSUSE 10.3 to see if I could play the movies outside of the game/bottle, and got messages that I needed two additional 3rd-party codecs in order to play the movies:

XviD (Xine, 32 bit, i586)
Sorenson Video 1 (Xine, 32 bit, i586)

So it looks like someone with a Mac running CrossOver/Wine is going to have a much better chance of running the game since they can install QuickTime natively. If you are going to try to install the game in Linux, I would suggest that you first use your media player(s) to try and play the movies in the Movies subdirectory on CD #2 in order to see if you have the necessary codecs/plugins beforehand.

RUnning CrossOver Games 7.22 and OSX 10.5.7 here. The game and MP3 music plays but the movies don't. I have the latest quicktime installed into my Wheel of Time bottle but every time I try to play a Quicktime movie, it says "Some of your Quicktime files are not up to date, would you like to update them now?". I click yes, and then it crashes.

I did get this to work with COG-7.1 on linux (complete with movies..),
but I'll need find my notes...it went something like this..;

download quicktime stand-alone installer
download game patches + no-cd patch
install directx runtime into a new bottle, winxp profile
install 'windows installer 2.0 redistributable' into same bottle
install quicktime into same bottle
install WoT -- do NOT install quicktime or directx7 from disc!
copy no-cd patch to game install dir
install/apply game patches (you only need the v333b patch in most cases)
game should run (with movies)
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once you have the no-cd patch and everything is working, you can
copy the movies and mp3 folders from disc2 into your virtual C:
drive in crossover, then edit the Default.ini to match...ie;
default is D:MOVIES , change to C:MOVIES etc etc, then you don't
need the 2nd cd at all (the copy protection stuff is actually on
cd2 ;)
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It may be that I installed ie6 into the same bottle before the
quicktime install..I can't recall...but if you get stuck, post
here and I'll see if my notes can be found.

Don