little fighter 2 vdragonballz 3.0 mod crashes on load sprite

fcmartins · Post by **fcmartins** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:44 am

I was trying to run one of my kids favourite games with Wine, alas it crashes accessing a null pointer, early on while loading one of the sprite files (not corrupted). I guess the program should be doing better memory checking but since this works on Windows, maybe Wine has fed him before some broken data.

Unfortunately, the terminal output doesn't seem much helpful: http://pastebin.com/m156827fe

The backtrace does not involve Wine, so I guess I need debug channels to figure out what's going on? What would be the best approach to figure out why the game is crashing? What

I have a Nvidia card with driver 177.82, but I guess at this early stage it would not matter much (well, unless the sprites are already being loaded into card memory, but I don't know if this makes sense). And I set VideoMemorySize=512.

EDIT: actually the game reports that it "could not create art surface" in a dialog box. It dies after I press OK. So the crash point seems irrelevant.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:59 am

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, fcmartins <[email protected]> wrote:

I was trying to run one of my kids favourite games with Wine, alas it crashes accessing a null pointer, early on while loading one of the sprite files (not corrupted). I guess the program should be doing better memory checking but since this works on Windows, maybe Wine has fed him before some broken data.

Unfortunately, the terminal output doesn't seem much helpful: http://pastebin.com/m156827fe

The backtrace does not involve Wine, so I guess I need debug channels to figure out what's going on? What would be the best approach to figure out why the game is crashing? What

I have a Nvidia card with driver 177.82, but I guess at this early stage it would not matter much (well, unless the sprites are already being loaded into card memory, but I don't know if this makes sense). And I set VideoMemorySize=512.

00000008 (D) E:\LF2dbz\Dragon Ball v3.0.exe

Where is E:\? Are you running that from a windows partition?

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-Austin

fcmartins · Post by **fcmartins** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:06 pm

austin987 wrote: 00000008 (D) E:\LF2dbz\Dragon Ball v3.0.exe

Where is E:\? Are you running that from a windows partition?

No, it's a mounted reiserfs file system. Why a Window partition, FAT32 I guess, would made a difference to Wine?

Unless there is a better suggestion, I think the best I could do for now is to figure out which parts of wine are being called before/during the load sprite steps. I'm not sure how best to do it. I guess it's WINEDEBUG but last time I tried it for another game, with a couple of options suggested by a developer I got >600.000 lines output... So before I start digging into WINEDEBUG I would like to know if this is the best approach.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:48 pm

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:06 PM, fcmartins <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
00000008 (D) E:\LF2dbz\Dragon Ball v3.0.exe

Where is E:\? Are you running that from a windows partition?

No, it's a mounted reiserfs file system. Why a Window partition, FAT32 I guess, would made a difference to Wine?

Fat32/reiserfs should both work. The problem is people often install
games in windows, and expect to run that install under Wine.

Unless there is a better suggestion, I think the best I could do for now is to figure out which parts of wine are being called before/during the load sprite steps. I'm not sure how best to do it. I guess it's WINEDEBUG but last time I tried it for another game, with a couple of options suggested by a developer I got >600.000 lines output... So before I start digging into WINEDEBUG I would like to know if this is the best approach.

Yeah, that's the best way. Try with +relay,+seh,+tid (run wine notepad
beforehand to reduce output).

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-Austin

fcmartins · Post by **fcmartins** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:36 pm

austin987 wrote: run wine notepad beforehand to reduce output.

Hmm, I guess the intention is to clean up startup msgs. But how exactly do I make the same wine process run notepad and then the game? and then only redirect the output from the game?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:10 pm

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM, fcmartins <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
run wine notepad beforehand to reduce output.

Hmm, I guess the intention is to clean up startup msgs. But how exactly do I make the same wine process run notepad and then the game? and then only redirect the output from the game?

Easiest way is to open two terminals:
Term1: $ wine notepad
Term2: $ WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine game.exe &> /tmp/output.txt

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-Austin