Part of the problem is that Python has every indication of being an old language, dynamically changing in that there are plenty of depreciated functions, functions that shouldn't be used because there are better ones to use. The problem often is that you don't know which ones are no longer ...

Works for me. Something is blocking your access to the page. Others have reported that problem before but I don't know the solution, sorry.

Patched mech.exe is here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... -t277.html

Well, the Wine option is necessary for those of us (myself included) who don't have access to Windows media that we can install in a VM.

I think I'm gonna go the VM route, everything works (just realized that the fonts in the tabs of the button panel don't show in wine), not losing much performance, and also has the advantage of the DPI settings in the executable. Also is not crashing whatsoever....

I finally tested on Wine 7.7 ...

The tool tip popup never work properly on Wine 6.x either. The popup rendered without transparency (just a large black rectangle around the graphics) but at least the game was completely stable. I'll do some testing on Wine 7 when when I have time. At the moment I don't have anything else to suggest ...

Which version of Wine are you using?

I don't use a DE or shortcuts so I would never have found this solution. I start everything from the command line via shell scripts.

I don't remember exactly when Wine changed, but it now requires changing to the directory containing mech.exe. However, in my case mech.exe wouldn't start at all. Different versions of Wine can behave very differently. It's just the nature of open source.

It's a bug in Wine. I've had a few of them affect SPWaW over the years.

That's old. Current stable is 6.0. You can get it here if it's not packaged for your distro yet. Try latest development release if the problem exists in current stable as well.

Which Wine version are you using?

I've never seen that problem. Does it happen without DxWnd?

SPWAW was the very first game that successfully ran on Wine for me. That was in 2004.

Welcome, fellow Linux user. [:)]

The free and the commercial version have no technical differences. You are paying for the campaigns, essentially.

<t> Use a recent version of Wine (>= 5.0) to avoid .NET issues. Disable sound effects otherwise the game lags badly (some Windows users experience this as well). Wine doesn't display the rotated text on the button panel correctly (a minor issue). Wine doesn't render the transparency on the hex info ...

<r> The Depot has a patched mech.exe which fixes the timing issues.<br/>
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Sad news indeed.