TEW in Linux (Tutorial)

[Lucied]

This tutorial is in dire need of an update. I went through and tried to see what was the bare minimum you need to make this work in the current version of Wine. This was tested in Wine version 1.3.19, not the stable 1.2 branch.

So onto the tutorial.

First, the requirements:

Any x86 version of Linux (meaning a version of Linux running on Intel or AMD processors, including Intel Macs)
Wine (http://www.winehq.org or from your package manager)
Winetricks

There is a full guide to Winetricks here (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks), but I'll try to cover the necessary parts for getting TEW to run.

Now let's run through the steps.

1. Open up your terminal. It should start in your home folder. Just to make sure, run this command:
cd ~/

2. Make a separate directory for your TEW (Optional, but recommended if you already use your .wine directory and don't want to risk messing it up):
mkdir .tew-wine
If you do this, remember to use this command before continuing:
export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine
NOTE: You can name it whatever you want.

3. Download Winetricks:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
NOTE: If you're using Ubuntu and have added the Wine repository, Winetricks is automatically installed when you install Wine.

4. Run the following Winetricks commands.
sh winetricks ie6
sh winetricks vb6run
NOTE: If you have Winetricks installed via your package manager, you shouldn't use "sh" in the above commands.

5. At this point, you're almost done. Run the install program:
wine TEW2010setup.exe
NOTE: This assumes the installer is in your home folder. Use the exact path if it is in another directory.

6. After it's done installing, you're set to run it.
wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2010\TEW2010.exe"

7. This is optional, but recommended for ease of use ONLY if you followed Step 2. You can create a small script that will allow you to launch TEW without needing to use the WINEPREFIX or the terminal. First create a plain text file, then open it in your favorite text editor and paste this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd
export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine
wine "c:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2010\TEW2010.exe"
Save the file. Then right click the file and select Properties, go to the Permissions tab, and click "Is Executable." At this point, you should be able to double click the file and TEW should launch.

Known Issues:
Sometimes TEW will crash with a message that it needs a dll or ocx file. Some such files may not be properly installed when installing TEW. One solution to this is to copy/paste the files off of a Windows install that has TEW on it. If that's not available, then you can try this.

Download Universal Extractor (http://legroom.net/software/uniextract). For ease of use, just get the binary package. This program works well in Wine. Start it up and point it toward the TEW installer, and click OK. After it determines the type of installer, select "Wise Installer /x switch" and hit OK. This will dump all the files from the installer, including the files you need, into the target directory. Then you can just copy the needed files into the Windows/system32 directory of the Wine install you use for TEW.

[justtxyank]

I'm curious...

I just purchased my mac so this is all new to me. Does this work with a standard macbook pro?

[Lucied]

I'm curious...

I just purchased my mac so this is all new to me. Does this work with a standard macbook pro?

I responded to your PM.

But just to get this out in the public thread, I have no idea. I don't use a Mac or have access to one. I'm not familiar with Mac, so I don't know if it will work.

There is a page on the Wine website for using Wine on Mac. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX I do not know if Winetricks will work on Mac, though.

[Lucied]

I updated the tutorial. I added a line which fixes how text in certain screens is rendered. The added line is:
sh winetricks native_oleaut32
Don't forget to use the WINEPREFIX line if you used a separate Wine directory.

If you're having problems with text looking like this (screen from TEW2010) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lucied20/tew2010-titles.png), then that will solve your problem.

Also, as you may be able to tell from the screenshot, TEW2010 works perfectly with this method. However, as is the same with Windows users, you must have a copy of Excel to make use of the spreadsheet feature.

[jesushat902]

TEW2008 and 2010 both quit for me when I'm playing. I get the following message. I've followed both guides to the word.

Error picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/vanhalenfan/Screenshot.png)

[Lucied]

TEW2008 and 2010 both quit for me when I'm playing. I get the following message. I've followed both guides to the word.

Error picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/vanhalenfan/Screenshot.png)

See this line:

The last line fixes a font rendering problem on certain TEW screens. NOTE: Setting it to use the native oleaut32 file seems to cause some instability with both TEW2008 and TEW2010.

I answered this for you in a PM, but for everyone else, I'll explain it here.

Go to your terminal and enter winecfg. That will get you to the Wine settings. Go to the Libraries tab, highlight oleaut32, click Edit, and change it to "Builtin then Native."

[Rick Savant]

Hey, I have TEW07 installed on windows. If I uninstall windows and install Ubuntu, and then install TEW07 again through WINE, would I be able to enter the same elicense or would I need a new one?

[Lucied]

Hey, I have TEW07 installed on windows. If I uninstall windows and install Ubuntu, and then install TEW07 again through WINE, would I be able to enter the same elicense or would I need a new one?

You must unlicense your version on Windows first. The method to do that should be in one of the FAQs on these forums.

[Rick Savant]

Thanks!

[Rick Savant]

Ok so I followed the instructions on here but kind of messed it up.

I'm using TEW2007 and Ubuntu 8.4.

So I entered in all the commands (except for the one to fix the screwy text), including the making of the new directory, up until I got to the point where I was trying to run the installer.

I (rightly or wrongly) entered:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine wine TEW2007setup.exe

which got me the message:

bash: export: `TEW2007setup.exe': not a valid identifier

to which I said. Hrmmm. And made a disapproving face. So I decided to heck with the the alternate directory and entered:

wine TEW2007setup.exe

And it worked! After a restart I saw it in my Applications>Wine>Programs. So I clicked on it and it asked me for an elicence. I unlicenced my 2007 on windows and entered it into my Ubuntu one. It worked! Everything's great! So I try to play the game and it says at the bottom of my screen:

Starting TEW2007

Which is what I want it to do but then it disappears with nothingness taking it's place which is not what I want it to do. So a restart and the same thing. So I think, "Hey! Maybe I should reinstall the winetricks but without the 'export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine' part as I said 'to heck with the alternate directory'!" and I install them all (including the one to fix the screwy text for some reason) (the ie one was kinda weird and didn't return me to my command line prompt but I think it worked) and then try to play the game. Same thing. Damn. Ok no problem I'll try it in the terminal, I enter:

wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe"

And I get a wall of text.

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).
Register dump:

and then it goes on for quite some time. Something about modules. Things are deferred. I don't know. I can supply the full text if it's helpful. But basically this is where I'm at:

A) What did I do wrong? There's a lot of possibilities.

B) Is it fixable? I hope so...

C) Even if it's not fixable does anyone know how to unlicence the game from the linux terminal?

Thank you for your kindness and understanding in these tough times.

[Lucied]

Well, let's go through this piece by piece.
I (rightly or wrongly) entered:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine wine TEW2007setup.exe

which got me the message:

bash: export: `TEW2007setup.exe': not a valid identifier
I guess maybe I was a little too vague. When I said "enter this line" I meant type the WINEPREFIX line, hit Enter, and then type the next command. So it would be:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine
wine TEW2007setup.exe

Two lines. :)

Which is what I want it to do but then it disappears with nothingness taking it's place which is not what I want it to do. So a restart and the same thing. So I think, "Hey! Maybe I should reinstall the winetricks but without the 'export WINEPREFIX=~/.tew-wine' part as I said 'to heck with the alternate directory'!" and I install them all (including the one to fix the screwy text for some reason) (the ie one was kinda weird and didn't return me to my command line prompt but I think it worked) and then try to play the game. Same thing. Damn. Ok no problem I'll try it in the terminal, I enter:

wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe"

And I get a wall of text.

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).
Register dump:

and then it goes on for quite some time. Something about modules. Things are deferred. I don't know. I can supply the full text if it's helpful. But basically this is where I'm at:

A) What did I do wrong? There's a lot of possibilities.

B) Is it fixable? I hope so...
I'm not sure...

What version of Wine are you using? Do "wine --version" (without quotes) in your terminal. That should give you the version. If it replies 0.9.59, it may be your outdated version. Follow the instructions on this page to get the most recent Wine for Ubuntu: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

After that, you might want to delete your Wine directory (unless you have stuff in there that you want saved) and start over. The other directory option in the tutorial is mainly there for people who already use Wine for other stuff, and don't want to risk the Winetricks things messing it up.

It very well could be your Wine version. Also note that the line to fix the font sizes, as I put in bold text, can cause TEW to be unstable. But since it acted this way both with and without, I don't think that's what's causing this particular incident.

It might also be missing files that you may have to copy over, but I wouldn't know without the full error text. But try upgrading your Wine version (if it's still the 0.9.x series) and see if that works first.

C) Even if it's not fixable does anyone know how to unlicence the game from the linux terminal?

Thank you for your kindness and understanding in these tough times.
Unlicensing the game in Linux is the same as in Windows. You just have to use the Wine command along with the normal command.

wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe" -unlicense

[Rick Savant]

You are a super human. Thank you very much.

My wine version appears to be 1.0 (according to wine --version) so what I'll do is delete it and start from scratch with the two lines.

Thanks again!

BREAKING NEWS:

The unlicence didn't work and I suspise that the reason it didn't work might be the reason the game doesn't work: When I type in

wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe" -unlicense

it says "wine: cannot find 'C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe'" and I say "That''s weird." and go into my C:/ in wine. There I see Program Files and Windows folders, and in Program Files I see Common Files and Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and the thing I notice about all of these folders is that none of them are GDS or TEW2007 or really anything that actually has the game in it. But it does appear in my menu under Applications>Wine>Programs>TEW2007.

So is it possible that I somehow installed it somewhere stranger and more obscure? Or is it hidden for some reason? Or is it not actually installed at all? Any suggestions at all would be massively helpful, thanks!

[Lucied]

You are a super human. Thank you very much.

My wine version appears to be 1.0 (according to wine --version) so what I'll do is delete it and start from scratch with the two lines.

Thanks again!

BREAKING NEWS:

The unlicence didn't work and I suspise that the reason it didn't work might be the reason the game doesn't work: When I type in

wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe" -unlicense

it says "wine: cannot find 'C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe'" and I say "That''s weird." and go into my C:/ in wine. There I see Program Files and Windows folders, and in Program Files I see Common Files and Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and the thing I notice about all of these folders is that none of them are GDS or TEW2007 or really anything that actually has the game in it. But it does appear in my menu under Applications>Wine>Programs>TEW2007.

So is it possible that I somehow installed it somewhere stranger and more obscure? Or is it hidden for some reason? Or is it not actually installed at all? Any suggestions at all would be massively helpful, thanks!
If you deleted your .wine directory before that, then it would be deleted. The menu items don't get removed if you just delete the entire directory like that.

You should be able to install it again. I don't know if eLicense will complain.

But to check if you did install it somewhere else, go into a menu editor and see where the menu shortcut points.

[Rick Savant]

I didn't delete the directory yet so that's just the way it was installed... I followed your suggestion by going System>Preferences>Main Menu and got this:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine "C:\PROG~FBU\GDS\TEW2007\UNWISE.EXE" /W1 "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\INSTALL.LOG"

So I think that means that it should be installed in C:\program files but I can't find it there...

[Lucied]

I didn't delete the directory yet so that's just the way it was installed... I followed your suggestion by going System>Preferences>Main Menu and got this:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine "C:\PROG~FBU\GDS\TEW2007\UNWISE.EXE" /W1 "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\INSTALL.LOG"

So I think that means that it should be installed in C:\program files but I can't find it there...

Well I guess it must be installed in the /home/felix/.tew-wine/drive_c/Program Files/ directory, given the existence of the WINEPREFIX.

(For future reference, "env WINEPREFIX" has to be on the same line as the Wine command, while "export WINEPREFIX" has to be on its own line.)

So if you were to enter this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine "C:\Program Files\GDS\TEW2007\TEW2007.exe" -unlicense
You should be able to unlicense. Assuming you haven't deleted that directory, either.

[Rick Savant]

Ok. Remember what I said earlier about you being a super human? I was wrong. You are a God King.

That absolutely worked. Ok so I've unlicensed it. I'll now delete the directory, reinstall wine and try again.

You've been extremely helpful. Yay the internets.

...ok so I lied. I instead went to /home/felix/.tew-wine/drive_c/Program Files/GDS/TEW2007 on my computer (which was tough because .tew-wine as invisible for some reason... and double clicked the .exe file and IT WORKED! You have actually fully solved my problem. Thank you so much.

[Rick Savant]

Damn. So close... yet so far...

ok so it loads up to the proper screen and I can start a new game and it checks all the files, says they're ok but then when I click Begin New Game I get this error:

Run-time error '339'

Component 'ovscombo2d.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

I get the same error if I go into the editor, edit database and then click on any of the buttons (workers, promotions etc). You had mentioned earlier I might need to copy files over... how would I do that?

Thanks again.

[Lucied]

Damn. So close... yet so far...

ok so it loads up to the proper screen and I can start a new game and it checks all the files, says they're ok but then when I click Begin New Game I get this error:

Run-time error '339'

Component 'ovscombo2d.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

I get the same error if I go into the editor, edit database and then click on any of the buttons (workers, promotions etc). You had mentioned earlier I might need to copy files over... how would I do that?

Thanks again.
Yeah, that's the thing. For some reason, some of the game or VB files aren't properly installed.

If you have a Windows installation on your system, you go to the windows/system32 directory on that partition. Copy the ovscombo2d.ocx file from that to your drive_c/windows/system32 directory. You'll probably have to do that for a few more files, as well.

I don't really know any other alternative. I did a search on Google, and I'm guessing there are no or extremely few non-GDS programs that use these files. If you uninstalled TEW from Windows and no longer have those files, you could try installing a demo of one of the TEW versions under Windows, and that should give you the files.

[Rick Savant]

Oh well that sounds easy. I'm on it!

[Rick Savant]

OK: So that worked great with ovscombo2d.ocx

But the next file it asked for was ovsBooleanControls.ocx so I coppied it over but I still get an error message saying

Run-time error '339':

Component 'ovsbooleancontrols.ocx' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

ovsBooooooo. I restarted my computer and it I still get the error and I double checked to make sure ovsbooleancontrols.ocx is in system32 and it's right there alongside ovscombo2d.ocx which the game recognized.

Any suggestions would be spectacular. By dependencies does that mean there might be other files it needs in order to make ovsbooleancontrols work?

[Lucied]

OK: So that worked great with ovscombo2d.ocx

But the next file it asked for was ovsBooleanControls.ocx so I coppied it over but I still get an error message saying

Run-time error '339':

Component 'ovsbooleancontrols.ocx' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

ovsBooooooo. I restarted my computer and it I still get the error and I double checked to make sure ovsbooleancontrols.ocx is in system32 and it's right there alongside ovscombo2d.ocx which the game recognized.

Any suggestions would be spectacular. By dependencies does that mean there might be other files it needs in order to make ovsbooleancontrols work?
Hmm. Just dumping it in the System32 folder works for me.

You should probably try this:

wine regsvr32 ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

Of course, if you're using a different directory (like .tew-wine) you need that WINEPREFIX entered first. That should (hopefully) register the file and the game should read it.

[Rick Savant]

Ok! So I entered:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine regsvr32 ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

and got the following error msg:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ovsbooleancontrols.ocx") not found
Failed to load DLL ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

So I'm reading this as I need to move over the file MSVBVM60.dll so I'll go into windows and try and find it... but if I'm totally off base please let me know.

[Lucied]

Ok! So I entered:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine regsvr32 ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

and got the following error msg:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ovsbooleancontrols.ocx") not found
Failed to load DLL ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

So I'm reading this as I need to move over the file MSVBVM60.dll so I'll go into windows and try and find it... but if I'm totally off base please let me know.
Yeah, go ahead and move the file.

Also, I should note, DO NOT upgrade to Wine version 1.1.41. This versions seems to have broken TEW2010 for me, and likely will break TEW2007, as well. Hopefully it's a regression that gets fixed in the next version.

[Dordhs]

billb wrote:keefy wrote:I tried chaning the res to no black borders but I edited the wrong section and now I cannot boot linux at all, is the only way to solve it to re-install?
I managed to boot into game-os so have PS3 games etc.

[Rick Savant]

Hrm. Ok so I moved over MSVBVM60.DLL and then entered

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine regsvr32 ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

and... it worked! At least ostensibly as the msg in the terminal read

Successfully registered DLL ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

Only it didn't work. When I try to use the program I get the same Run-time error '339 as I got before. Still pertaining to ovsbooleancontrols.ocx.

I'm guessing this may be the end of the line for my Linux TEW experiment. But if you have any suggestions on what I could do from here that'd be awesome.

[Lucied]

Hrm. Ok so I moved over MSVBVM60.DLL and then entered

env WINEPREFIX="/home/felix/.tew-wine" wine regsvr32 ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

and... it worked! At least ostensibly as the msg in the terminal read

Successfully registered DLL ovsbooleancontrols.ocx

Only it didn't work. When I try to use the program I get the same Run-time error '339 as I got before. Still pertaining to ovsbooleancontrols.ocx.

I'm guessing this may be the end of the line for my Linux TEW experiment. But if you have any suggestions on what I could do from here that'd be awesome.

Well, I would at least suggest you start over. I'm sure you can delete the .tew-wine folder, if you only used it for TEW. (Only after unlicensing, of course.) That way you can take it from the beginning and make sure everything is put in the correct Wine directory (whether it be .tew-wine or your normal .wine directory).

That's all I can think of right now.

[Rick Savant]

Good call. I'll give that a shot. Thanks again for all your help!

[Rick Savant]

Everything you suggested worked btw, thank you.

You win:

More questions!

So I'm trying to play multiplayer with a friend in a different country playing 2005 as that's all he has) but I can't find the folder to drop the save file into.

I figured it would be in Felix/.wine/dosdevices/C:/Program Files/GDS/TEW2005

But there's no GDS folder in my Program Files. I have another game (EHM 2007) installed and I can see it but my TEW games aren't there... I've set it to show hidden files. Any suggestions?

Oh both TEW 2007 and 2005 work. Hell even the installed demo of 2010 works.

[Lucied]

Everything you suggested worked btw, thank you.

You win:

More questions!

So I'm trying to play multiplayer with a friend in a different country playing 2005 as that's all he has) but I can't find the folder to drop the save file into.

I figured it would be in Felix/.wine/dosdevices/C:/Program Files/GDS/TEW2005

But there's no GDS folder in my Program Files. I have another game (EHM 2007) installed and I can see it but my TEW games aren't there... I've set it to show hidden files. Any suggestions?

Oh both TEW 2007 and 2005 work. Hell even the installed demo of 2010 works.

Did you install into a separate .tew-wine directory, or just into your base .wine setup?

Other than that, all I can think of is that it's in the base Program Files directory instead of GDS. I don't know if TEW2005 created a GDS folder or if it's just Program Files/TEW2005. I don't have access to your system so I can't probe around your files looking for it.

[StudioStu]

I know this thread is kinda old, but I was wondering if you could help me with my issue. I keep getting this "Run-time error '429': Active X component can't create object" message. I did the Universal Extractor thing and copied all of the dll's and ocx's into the system32 directory, downloaded msscript.ocx and registered that, but I'm still getting the same error. Any advice?

[Lucied]

I know this thread is kinda old, but I was wondering if you could help me with my issue. I keep getting this "Run-time error '429': Active X component can't create object" message. I did the Universal Extractor thing and copied all of the dll's and ocx's into the system32 directory, downloaded msscript.ocx and registered that, but I'm still getting the same error. Any advice?

Did you use winetricks to install ie6?

Are you using a different Wine directory (other than .wine)? If so, are you using the WINEPREFIX line?

If you installed ie6, you should have no ActiveX issues.

And I think the msscript file is probably from vb6run, which you should also have installed via winetricks.

I think that if you're using Ubuntu and have winetricks installed via the Wine repository, you shouldn't have the "sh " in those winetricks lines. I should make a note of that.

[wwe9112]

When I go to the directory to play the game and run it, it says opening but nothing ever comes up :(

[Lucied]

When I go to the directory to play the game and run it, it says opening but nothing ever comes up :(

Well, at least I know it's not just me...

The WMMA3 demo works just fine, but full, licensed versions of TEW2008 and TEW2010 quietly crash.

It's been like this for a couple weeks, and there have been a few Wine updates since then, and none have fixed the issue. I've never tried regression testing, but I think if this keeps up I'm going to have to give it a try so I can get a possible bug report for the Wine devs.

EDIT: Well, from reading other posts, it seems your problem is on Windows and not Linux. So...yeah...

[wwe9112]

I read through i didnt see anything about it

[nucleardonkey]

I read through everything and followed the instructions but when I ran winetricks ie6 it got a 404 error and when I try to open TEW2010 I get Runtime Error 429. I've ran the universal extractor and still got it.

[Lucied]

I read through everything and followed the instructions but when I ran winetricks ie6 it got a 404 error and when I try to open TEW2010 I get Runtime Error 429. I've ran the universal extractor and still got it.

Do you have the latest version of Winetricks?

Is the 404 error in downloading IE6? Could you try using Winetricks to install IE7 instead?

All you really need is some version of IE in order to allow the eLicense ActiveX control to work. I just use IE6 in the example because IE6 runs best in Wine, even though you really don't need to use the browser for anything.

On an unrelated note, the newest version of Wine fixes whatever problem I was having in the past few versions with running the TEW games. So that's good.

[shorne33]

I read through everything and followed the instructions but when I ran winetricks ie6 it got a 404 error and when I try to open TEW2010 I get Runtime Error 429. I've ran the universal extractor and still got it.

I was having the same exact problem...go to the terminal and type in:

winetricks wsh56

You need Windows Script Hosting. If that doesn't work then I'm not sure.

[Rick Savant]

So if you read this post. I'm sorry.

The good news is that I've fixed it! I'm up and running!

The bad news: I'm terrified to try and install the latest patch. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? Can I just move the .exe over and replace the existing one like in windows?

EDIT: Ok yeah. I moved over the patch and it broke it again. So I'm reinstalling. If anyone knows how I can use that patch, please let me know... but at least the unpatched game is working!

[Lucied]

So if you read this post. I'm sorry.

The good news is that I've fixed it! I'm up and running!

The bad news: I'm terrified to try and install the latest patch. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? Can I just move the .exe over and replace the existing one like in windows?

EDIT: Ok yeah. I moved over the patch and it broke it again. So I'm reinstalling. If anyone knows how I can use that patch, please let me know... but at least the unpatched game is working!

I'm a bit disappointed I didn't see the original post. But I have a feeling that it wasn't very nice.

What version of Wine do you have? When I was having my issues back at the end of November and early December, it seems like the version of Wine I had then had some issues with running TEW2010. The demo of WMMA3 ran fine, but registered copies of TEW2008 and TEW2010 didn't.

The issues are fixed, and I'm currently using Wine 1.4-RC5 (the latest is RC6), which runs the game on the current patch with seemingly no issues.

If you're on the current or near-current Wine version and you're having problems, then I'm not entirely sure what it would be. Is there any sort of error message you're getting?

[SelfObscurity]

Howdy,

I've installed TEW via Wine on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop, and recieve this error when attempting to launch:

Run-time error '429':

ActiveX component can't create object.


Anyone come across this before?

Thanks,
Jon
Lover of Technical Wrestling, Santino and the One Man Rock Band!

[Lucied]

Howdy,

I've installed TEW via Wine on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop, and recieve this error when attempting to launch:

Run-time error '429':

ActiveX component can't create object.


Anyone come across this before?

Thanks,
Jon
Lover of Technical Wrestling, Santino and the One Man Rock Band!

Did you install IE6 or IE7 via Winetricks?

You need a version of Internet Explorer installed in the Wine directory that has TEW in order for eLicense to use ActiveX.

[SelfObscurity]

Lucid,

I installed IE7 via Winetricks; IE6 gave an error claiming it didn't support 64-bit systems'. I still receive the same error after installing winetricks IE7 and start TEW.

I'm doing some looking around the net also for the ActiveX problem on Ubuntu/Linux.

Thanks,
Jon

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Lucid,

I installed IE7 via Winetricks; IE6 gave an error claiming it didn't support 64-bit systems'. I still receive the same error after installing winetricks IE7 and start TEW.

I'm doing some looking around the net also for the ActiveX problem on Ubuntu/Linux.

Thanks,
Jon

Did you install it all in the same Wineprefix? There shouldn't be any ActiveX errors if it's installed correctly.