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can't load a windows program

Asked by David Jones

I have a program named "Cue Club" which is a windows pool game, I have wine installed and working on my machine however when i try to load the pool game it goes through all the motions then reboots my machine. Can someone help with this problem? It goes as far as selecting the video driver "Direct Draw HAL" this is when the screen goes black and the reboot takes place. I do not know of any place you can download the program well you can get a trial version at http://www.download-free-games.com/pool_game_download/cue_club.htm in case someone the game for testing. Thanking everyone in advance for the support. II know someone has faced this issue before.

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Rob Frerejean (hffrerejean) said : 		#1

It looks like your game is not running stable in Wine. Wine is a nice program, but not all the wWindows software is working in it.

Go to http://www.winehq.org/ for more information about Wine.

If you want to run more Windows programs in Linux, I recoment you install Virtualbox and run your Windows in there.

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David Jones (dj) said : 		#2

will try virtualbox ose will let you know how it goes.thanks!!

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Rob Frerejean (hffrerejean) said : 		#3

Ok. Success with it. I use it a lot.