NeverHood won't run [Unable to initialize DirectDraw]

[Skankin' Rat Fink]

I just installed the old game The Neverhood into WINE, and it won't run. On start up it pops up the following dialogue boxes:

DDERR_UNSUPPORTED

and

Unable to initialize DirectDraw.

I have it set to run in Windows 98 (like the how-to from the AppDB), and I've tried it with both Vertex Shader and pixel shader on and off. I installed the DirectX that came with it. I've tried it set to Win 95 and Win 2000 as well.

Anyway, I keep getting the same error. Has anyone else played this game, or at least gotten around this error with a different app? Thanks.

[austin987]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Skankin' Rat Fink
<[email protected]> wrote:

I just installed the old game The Neverhood into WINE, and it won't run. On start up it pops up the following dialogue boxes:

DDERR_UNSUPPORTED

and

Unable to initialize DirectDraw.

I have it set to run in Windows 98 (like the how-to from the AppDB), and I've tried it with both Vertex Shader and pixel shader on and off. I installed the DirectX that came with it.

I keep getting the same error. Has anyone else played this game, or at least gotten around this error with a different app? Thanks.

Terminal output would help.

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-Austin

[Skankin' Rat Fink]

I actually figured it out myself from the terminal output .... it was trying to run in 1280x1024, but running it in an 800x600 desktop fixed it. Thanks for the tip.