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Old 08-05-2011, 05:58 AM   #18
JollyRog3r
 
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Default Re: GURPS Character Assistant under Wine for Linux

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If GCA is the only thing you're going to use under Wine that's fine, but if you install much else it will probably break the install.

The reason comes down to the fact that Windows is a heck of a lot smarter than Wine. When a program installs in Windows it puts the system-level DLLs into their own little cache so when that program runs it opens the ones connected to it (as a remedy to "DLL hell"). Wine doesn't have that and the DLLs get overwritten instead. That's why I recommended putting it into a WINEPREFIX.

The speed issue is probably our old "friend" Visual Basic 6. Wine is basically having to emulate two different systems (the Visual Basic interpreter and Windows itself) doing one or the other is fine (VB6 on Windows isn't terrible and native compile Windows code in Wine is fine) but you put them both together and it's a dog.
Yeah, i'll re-configure everything, but i wanted to test first.

Anyway, thnx for the help ^^

SJGames should have done it as multi-plataform system, its not all that hard :P
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