Night & Magic VIII - brightened central part

[Hartmut Figge]

Greetings,

long, long ago i played successfully mm8 on wine. Time has passed enough
to play it again.

Well, there is a problem now. See the screenshot.
http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8.jpg (76 KB)

A great part of the image is brightened and remains so for all future
images. This effect i do only see with mm8.

For the test i am using wine 1.3.0 with a freshly created ~/.wine. No
additional modifications to wine. And also no one to mm8 itself because
i was able to launch the game successfully with

wine start 'h:\_autorun\autorun.exe'

using the mounted CD2 of mm8. Well, i had to wait a bit until this
message appears

err:alsa:wine_snd_pcm_recover underrun occurred

or the game would crash. It crashes also when trying

hafi@e675 ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/mm8 $ wine mm8.exe

but that's another matter which has nothing to do with the graphical
problem. wine is set to Windows XP and virtual desktop.

Kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r1
Graphic card Geforce 8800 GTS
nvidia-drivers 195.36.31

Any thoughts?

Hartmut

[Das Letzte Einhorn]

Hello Hartmut,

I will test the game this weekend and report. In the meanwhile, I suggest that you upgrade your video drivers, they are up to 256.44 now.

[Hartmut Figge]

Das Letzte Einhorn:

I will test the game this weekend and report.

Thanks for that.

In the meanwhile, I suggest that you upgrade your video drivers, they
are up to 256.44 now.

Mhm, no. This one is not even in the unstable part of Gentoo yet, it is
hard masked.

Hartmut

[Das Letzte Einhorn]

I use nvidia-drivers-256.44 on my main PC and it works just fine.

Add x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.unmask to emerge it.

[Hartmut Figge]

Das Letzte Einhorn:

I use nvidia-drivers-256.44 on my main PC and it works just fine.

Leichtsinniges Huhn. *g*

Add x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.unmask to
emerge it.

Done. Same problem with this driver. Running an old installation of mm8
in ~/.wine-s1 under wine 1.3.0, old savegame:

http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8-b.jpg (76 KB)

In this old installation i had replaced mm8.exe to avoid the crash when
starting the game. No graphic problem in the past with an ancient
version of wine. I was not able to compile an old enough one for a test
because there was an issue with freetype. Sigh.

Hartmut

[Das Letzte Einhorn]

You should then file a bug at bugs.winehq.org . Run the game from a terminal and upload your terminal output.

Otherwise, there is an unofficial patch for the game : http://www.portailsmm.com/comm/downloads.html

[Hartmut Figge]

Das Letzte Einhorn:

You should then file a bug at bugs.winehq.org . Run the game from a
terminal and upload your terminal output.

I was not really sure that wine was the culprit. And with ...

Otherwise, there is an unofficial patch for the game:
http://www.portailsmm.com/comm/downloads.html

... that i get http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8-c.jpg

Now it is even possible to run the game with
hafi@e675 ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/mm8 $ wine mm8.exe
without a crash. Fine, very fine. Thanks.

Hartmut

[doh123]

I have MM6 through MM9 and besides a few bugs in MM9 they all play great in Wine using the unofficial patches.