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John Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:25:46 +0000, Alan Braggins wrote:
>> (And it can run _some_ Windows games as well as Windows. Quite a lot,
>> but not so many the OP should assume the one he cares about works
>> without checking first. The Microsoft Flight Simulator page, for example
>> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=278
>> isn't very promising. CorelDraw looks a better, but depends on version:
>> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=440)
> 
> You can't really go by those pages.
> It does very much depend on the versions of the software you are trying 
> to run and the version of wine.
> 
> I have had very good results with apps that didn't look good on the list.
> Dreamweaver for example works really well for me.
> 
> Best way is to just try it out.
> 
> The other thing is that people often publish complicated hacks to make an 
> app work with wine. In all the cases that I've tried (not many) the hacks 
> didn't work, but just installing as you would on windows did.
> 
> 

Reading between the lines, it looks like there is a bug in the X3 and X4 
installations, that crashes them under wine. Essentially reading data 
from a deallocated memory block, which Windows allows, but wine has 
overwritten in the de-allocation process.

The workaround might be to copy an existing installation. And patch the 
registry..

> JohnT