Actually running things in wine with consistent success is about as likely as winning the lottery. After all that, they'll likely end up either deciding to do without the software or just configuring a dual-boot system so they can run it in Windows. And they better have time and talent to take the VERY buggy wine application and somehow build a bridge between it and the particular piece of software they hope to run. It would be much more honest to advertize wine as perpetual beta-ware and explain to end users that they'll likely have to become expert in every aspect of wine, windows api, the particular software they hope to run, etc. Meanwhile, it would seem a great deal of time and effort has gone into this website which is mostly filled with completely misleading information giving people the FALSE impression that software works with wine that clearly does not. If it can neither run a VERY popular, three-year-old game nor even adequately explain why it won't/can't, then it clearly is very poorly supported and maintained by a largely incompetent group. Functionally it has NEVER been maintained or done right in the first place. Who even knows what is in the file?!?ĥ) Considering that I have tried NUMEROUS versions of wine with NUMEROUS pieces of software over MANY years and across MANY distributions of Linux from Ubuntu to Gentoo only to discover that NOTHING EVER WORKS AS ADVERTIZED I'm completely at a loss as to why wine is even continuing to be maintained. No one explains why after NOT having it and NOT running it this error continues to occur. No one says why this is supposedly the case. Then you have random comments around the 'net claiming you don't need safemode.zip anymore. maybe try these random things." One gets the impression you'd have better results praying for it to work or lighting incense as an offering to the computer deities so they'll un-break wine.Ĥ) This article lauding how well wine allegedly works for Torchlight contains a broken link to part of the instructions and the referenced file isn't available anywhere. No one expresses any understanding of it in any forum or comment section. There has NEVER been any serious fix for this problem. Am I mistaken? However, this game is peopled for years with users who have the same "unhandled page fault" error over and over again. It is a joke! If a piece of software has a platinum rating that is supposed to mean it works immediately or with only very mild, simple, reasonable tweaks, perhaps. Take for example Torchlight's platinum rating. are apparently completely disorganized or possibly even dishonest. For those of you who find some success, you're lucky, and that is all.ģ) The wine community/developers/etc. So if wine is successful in the least at pretending to be Windows, then the end user wouldn't have to spend hours hacking at wine in the misguided hope it will magically start working. Windows, after all, does not have a problem running Torchlight. This proves wine has never gone beyond alpha/beta software. But on the rare occasion it works at all it usually only does so after significant tweaking and hacking. As such, I've never had any use for wine.Ģ) Wine is often advocated as a reasonable means of playing Windows games on Linux. The things it will run are things for which there are numerous superior Linux alternatives. While not directing my comments at anyone in particular, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out a few things.ġ) I have NEVER succeeded in having wine properly run ANYTHING I've wanted to run. The fact is that wine is and always has been pretty terrible software. I would love to actually have this game (or anything at all) work in wine. Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x7f77b31b in 32-bit code (0x7f77b31b)." Furthermore, a quick Googling proves I'm hardly the only one, and there is NO working fix available: just guesses and conjecture. Platinum? All I get is "wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x7f77b31b at address 0x7f77b31b (thread 0009), starting debugger.
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