I think I messed up DirectDraw.

DOS4dinner · Post by **DOS4dinner** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:24 pm

I tried to run a demo of Hype: The time quest (Windows 95/98, uses directX6 or some glide3 for 3D stuff) to see if it would work. It installed, but comes up with a weird "Cannot find a game using directdraw" error. I uninstalled it and went about my way. While it would be cool to have this run, that is not my main problem.

Now, I cannot run Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (also windows 95/98--runs flawlessly in Wine normally), which I know ran perfectly before. Now, it does run, but the screen is completely messed up with red squares and messed up graphics. Along with this come a bunch of fixme DirectDraw errors. I get the feeling that the Hype demo overwrote some DirectX stuff or just started messing with things in general. Oddly enough, Moonbase commander (windows XP)still works. Is there some way I can check if my copy of Wine is messed up, and if so, is there a way to fix it?
(using Latest version of Wine in Ubuntu 8.04, if needed)

Richard Seese · Post by **Richard Seese** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:44 pm

I would check your graphics tab in wine configuration and confirm that the settings were not changed, or maybe even consider changing some of the settings, such as the vertex shader support option, and maybe try "Emulate a virtual desktop". There's a few things you can try right off the bat to see if it fixes it.

DOS4dinner · Post by **DOS4dinner** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:08 pm

Richard Seese wrote:I would check your graphics tab in wine configuration and confirm that the settings were not changed, or maybe even consider changing some of the settings, such as the vertex shader support option, and maybe try "Emulate a virtual desktop". There's a few things you can try right off the bat to see if it fixes it.

Nope, still messed up.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:37 pm

DOS4dinner wrote:
Richard Seese wrote:I would check your graphics tab in wine configuration and confirm that the settings were not changed, or maybe even consider changing some of the settings, such as the vertex shader support option, and maybe try "Emulate a virtual desktop". There's a few things you can try right off the bat to see if it fixes it.
Nope, still messed up.

What video card and driver? I'm assuming you was installing these programs into different WINEPREFIXes? If not, then the next step would be to do that.

DOS4dinner · Post by **DOS4dinner** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:11 pm

vitamin wrote: What video card and driver? I'm assuming you was installing these programs into different WINEPREFIXes? If not, then the next step would be to do that.

I am using an ATI Radeon 9800 with the propiatary drivers (the ones from the Ubuntu repositories, I believe--whichever ones you get when you hit the "use propiatary drivers" button.

And what are the "WINEPREFIXes" and what am I supposed to do? (I am new to Wine)?

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:20 pm

DOS4dinner wrote:
vitamin wrote: What video card and driver? I'm assuming you was installing these programs into different WINEPREFIXes? If not, then the next step would be to do that.
I am using an ATI Radeon 9800 with the propiatary drivers (the ones from the Ubuntu repositories, I believe--whichever ones you get when you hit the "use propiatary drivers" button.

And what are the "WINEPREFIXes" and what am I supposed to do? (I am new to Wine)?

your WINEPREFIX is where your Wine data is stored, registry, drive_c etc

The default WINEPREFIX is ~/.wine

If you want to run a program under a new or different WINEPREFIX, then you run Wine like this, for example under a prefix named foo

WINEPREFIX=/home/myusername/foo wine /path/to/setup.exe