Disappearing Wine

duwady · Post by **duwady** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:16 pm

I am slowly weaning off from Windows to Linux and have started using Ubuntu.

I was playing a Windows demo online game (Guild War) on Ubuntu via Wine, and everything was going smoothly. I was very impressed.

However, it does not work anymore. I can start it, but after sometime, the game just gets ejected.

Can anybody point me to where I can go and find out why the game/wine just stops working out of the blue?

TIA

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:12 pm

You say it's a demo--is there a time limit?

ghoti2007 · Post by **ghoti2007** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:57 am

I noticed it the past few days as well.

I (almost nightly) update my wine via git and the past week or so performance has drastically dropped in GW.

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fixme:d3d_shader:shader_glsl_load_constantsF >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glUniform4fvARB() @ glsl_shader.c / 231
fixme:d3d_shader:shader_glsl_load_constants >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glUniform4fvARB @ glsl_shader.c / 411

This floods the terminal while making the game nearly unplayable, if it doesn't just simply exit like you said.

I have the full version, and up untill recently, worked flawlessly for me.

(been reading this here mailing list for months, first reply - learned a lot through this stuff!)[/code]

duwady · Post by **duwady** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:44 am

dimesio wrote:You say it's a demo--is there a time limit?

The time limit is till end of August.

Since it is online game, it just loads the portal. I have loaded it on Windows machine too, and it is working fine there, but I want to run it on my Ubuntu machine.

TIA

duwady · Post by **duwady** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:50 am

ghoti2007 wrote:... I (almost nightly) update my wine via git and the past week or so performance has drastically dropped in GW. ...

To me, it happened within 2 days. When I first installed it, it worked fine, but it stopped working the very next day. The game will be ejected, but the screen will still have a image of the game, as soon as you move the mouse, the image goes.

It is frustrating.

I will uninstall and install it again, and I will also install another application to see how it goes.

But I would appreciate if anybody who has found out what this is about shed some light on this...

TIA

ghoti2007 · Post by **ghoti2007** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:55 am

You wouldn't happen to remember exactly which git version played GW fine would you? I was going to use this as good time to learn to do regression testing.

or really, i should ask...

Is this really a bug? I've tried clean wineprefixes, re-installed the game, etc and still suffer. Haven't been able to play GW for a while now..

ghoti2007 · Post by **ghoti2007** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 2:12 am

Ignore that.

I played around and realized that all the warnings about the glsl shader were eating the cpu up all to bits.

I ran:

WINEDEBUG=-all wine GW.exe

and it has calmed down. I didn't realize until I read another unrelated thread that so many messages could eat up resources.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:02 am

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:55 AM, ghoti2007 <[email protected]> wrote:

You wouldn't happen to remember exactly which git version played GW fine would you? I was going to use this as good time to learn to do regression testing.

or really, i should ask...

Is this really a bug? I've tried clean wineprefixes, re-installed the game, etc and still suffer. Haven't been able to play GW for a while now..

It wouldn't hurt to run a regression test and file a bug. That warning
has been in the code for a while, but apparently wasn't getting hit
before...