Steve_R

Received a reply to my post on the Bottles forum, essentially confirming that Wine does not successfully implement OpenGL. Evidently this has been a long term concern.

I've had many fond memories of "rebuilding" applications and even the full operating system. I've taken to writing installation notes to minimize that headache. I'm currently using Linux Mint. So far, no response on OpenGL in the Bottles forum. Thanks for responding.

From what I can tell, bottles is based on Wine. I will have to undertake an internet search. So far, no response from my bottles forum post.

The demo version of Fortress Italy loaded under bottles but did not run. Received the error message: "Could not initialize OpenGL graphics. Please update your OpenGL drivers." I looked around the various configurations options available with bottles, but did not find an obvious way to fix. I'll make a post on the bottles forum. Any advice from this forum?

Good, suggestion to try a demo. I had not thought of that!!! I have successfully installed and run a few games Window's games from Wargame Design Studio. Thanks for responding.

Glad to see this post. I'm running Linux and recently found out about Bottles, a program that allows Window's games to be played under Linux. I just made a post to ask whether Battlefront games would work with Bottles to facilitate a buying decision.

Recently a program called Bottles was released that allows Window's games to be played under Linux. Many of the Battlefront Games carry the notation: "The game does not work in a virtualized environment (virtual machine)". I'm looking forward to buying a Battlefront game, but before I buy I have two questions: 1) Does Bottles constitute a virtual machine? 2) Has anyone used Bottles with a Battlefront game?

Thanks very much for the response. I have the CD, but I feel a bit disappointed that this game has not been updated. I'll take a pass for now, but will look into other more current games by Battlefront. One reason for my "sudden" interest in Combat Mission Afrika Korps was that Tlller Software, now Wargame Design Studio issued recent upgrades for its "old" games. Thanks again for providing a very informative response.

I bought Combat Mission Afrika Korps many years ago. Enjoyed the game. Currently, the game is not installed as I have gone though several computers over the years. Now, I'm using Linux, but still have one computer that is dual boot with Windows 10. Before installing again, I have been looking through this forum. In the image below, there are two Windows "patch" files, without any explanation. Before doing anything; I was wondering how these "patches" are loaded. Specifically, do they improve any game functionality with Windows as the original version of Afrika Korps appears to be now behind the times.

Still around. Good! I bought "Combat Mission: Africka Korps" when it first came out. Great game, just never got around to playing it as a multi-player game. Sigh. Time flew by. I moved onto Linux (Ubuntu 14.04), so I can't play directly. Still have the ability to boot into MS Windows. I see that there is a "looking for opponents" thread. I'll have to look into it.

I have the ATI Radeon 4350. Installing the fix (below) from Malaspina seems to have solved the text problem. I still need to do the "ALT TAB" though. http://www.battlefront.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=384&d=1258381706

I have the ATI 4350. Replacing the BMP files seems to have fixed the video problem identified in this thread. Thanks. I still have the minor issue with having to do the "ALT TAB" key press. At least that's only an irritant. I'll have to look more into that.

I have a 19" viewsonic LCD Monitor. The image seems just fine to me. (but then I have not seen the game on a CRT). I have not experienced any problems. The space saving "feature" of the LCD is really great too.

A switch costs $30. A router/switch $60 A router/switch with firewall $80 I do not know what your configurations are, but the router with firewall would be the "best" starting point should you have/plan a broad band connection to the internet.

Thanks very much for your help. I believe that you have pointed out an obscure point. Though the drivers did not unload, the SIS control panel did. I played the game last night on the Sony Viao and it worked. I have been hesitant about removing the drivers as I have an LCD monitor and without the drivers the monitor reports "Range Error" and doesn't display anything. The FX-5500 video card arrived. I have not installed it yet. CMAK does work with the SIS-650 chipset, so problem solved. So Thanks again.