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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

Trying to install Wing Commander 4 via Wine results in nought but a ridiculous number of errors. The screen res changes, the logo displays... And then nothing happens at all, while error after error accumulates in the log.

(I did 'wine wc4.exe >& ~/wc4.log' to record the errors.)

Here are some of the errors I get, roughly in order of occurrence. Note that most errors appear at least half a dozen times.

Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
         NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported VGA register: 0x03c7 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_in Unsupported VGA register: 0x03c9

That last one (the one containing 0x03c9) repeats several hundred times.

fixme:int31:DOSVM_Int31Handler Get Processor Exception Handler Vector (0x0d)
fixme:int31:DOSVM_Int31Handler Get Processor Exception Handler Vector (0x0e)
fixme:int31:DOSVM_Int31Handler Set Processor Exception Handler Vector (0x00)
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Position mouse cursor
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Define horizontal mouse cursor range 0..1280
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Define vertical mouse cursor range 0..480
fixme:int:DOSVM_outport 8254 timer readback not implemented yet
fixme:int:DOSVM_outport 8254 timer readback not implemented yet
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Define horizontal mouse cursor range 0..1280
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Define vertical mouse cursor range 0..480
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Position mouse cursor
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x7fe68ce8)->(00010022,00000011
)
fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 8
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_DDHAL_CreatePalette stub
err:int:INT10_HandleVESA VESA GET/SET DISPLAY START - Not Implemented
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_in Unsupported VGA register: 0x03cc

These are probably just a small fraction of the errors I get - wc4.log is 112 kilobytes in size. :shock:

What's really spooky about this is that, according to WineHQ's app database, WC4 works perfectly under Wine. :?

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

Isn't WC4 really old? What Windows version are you having Wine "emulate"?

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KalephOne

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From: Fortaleza, Brasil

Registered: 2004-04-02

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Re: WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

Did you installed the update that made wc4 compatible for windows? Remember that it is a dos game. Or you can try running it on dosbox - i've been playing wc2 with it 

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

I have the DOS version, but it runs on Win98, and Wine can emulate Win98/DOS. Anyway, I tried DOSBox, and just running it - without it running any other programs - slowed my system to a crawl. So DOSBox is out... Plus, DOSbox isn't exactly as versatile as Wine is it?

I did have a problem with Wine wherein I couldn't download necessary Windows components, because download.microsoft.com was inaccessible; but I can now connect to it, so that's over with.

BTW, if I did have the DirectX version of WC4, I wouldn't be able to play it: in order to download DirectX from the Microsoft website, you need a registered copy of Windows. I don't have that, and my dad has a copy of Windows 98 with a rather dubious history, which probably wouldn't work anyway - the registration key for Win98 is, IIRC, less than 25 characters long.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

dosbox is more suited to dos games. it should run it fine, its surprising that it slowed your system to a crawl. Maybe check the FAQ on the website, there might be something relevant.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: WC4 via Wine: crazy number of errors, nothing else

Checked FAQ, came up with nothing... But frankly I don't see the point of using DOSBox. After all, I already have an x86 processor, so why emulate one? Plus, I might want to run Windows apps other than WC4.

BTW: in order to get DirectX apps running under Wine, do I have to download DirectX from the MS website, or does Wine have its own libraries for DirectX apps already?