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Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Anno 1404 on Wine

Hello,

i would like to play Anno 1404 on wine, as I don't want to setup an own windows partition.

I've installed it with wine, set the dbghelp.dll to native, and set DirectX to version 9 in the engine.ini of Anno.

Now i try to start it, but the intro isn't played correctly (instead of the video there are only colored blocks, but with sound). Then i see a brown background, with a full correctly working cursor. Then it changes the background color to a bright yellow. I have the working cursor, and sound, but no menu or images, only the yellow background.

On the console appear two different messages very often:

fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909201952 (as fourcc:  R16) WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909201952) in the format lookup table

I have a ati radeon hd2600xt (mobile edition), and i am using the open source driver (xf86-video-ati).

Can anybody help me?

slumslayer

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 66

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Maybe you can try to disable intro video. See last part of the first post there :
http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t … 076577/p/1

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

The problem is not only the intro, it also shows nothing on the menu screen.... I thought it will be helpful for troubleshooting, but disabling it won't change anything, as I can skip the intro by pressing the esc-key.

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Knows nobody a solution?

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Open-source-driver is a no-go, if you want to play games with Wine.

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Although other games are working well?

s2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 7

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Nagian, what Wine version do you use?

Some user writes the game is OK under v1.1.39:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … &iId=18788

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Although other games are working well?

Which games do you mean? The open source driver doesn't support the functions Anno 1404 needs.

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

I've used wine 1.1.41, but it's also not working with 1.1.39, just tested in this moment.

Native Linux games, like supertux or neverball. The OpenSource driver has got 3d-accleration a few months ago.

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Native Linux games, like supertux or neverball. The OpenSource driver has got 3d-accleration a few months ago.

Well yes, these are native Linux games, they work very well with the opensource driver, but not games with wine. I test the open source driver from time to time with wine games and so far I had 0 success. Supertux, SuperTuxKart, Neverball, Warsow and so on... they work really good. But Wine games... nope. At least not for me.

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

Well, i don't want to use the official ati-driver, as i don't like it....

But on the radeonProgram-Page from the xorg-wiki (http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram) are also a few windows-games listed, working with wine. The problem is that anno 1404 isn't listened.... So I don't think that wine in general is a problem, and maybe  i'll find a solution

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Anno 1404 on Wine

So I don't think that wine in general is a problem, and maybe  i'll find a solution

Well, those games, which use OpenGL instead of DirectX/Direct3D should work, and old DirectX-Games.