Hydorah on wine

[leaphion]

Hi, I'm trying to run this game called Hydorah, a retro styled space shooter in the style of Gradius, on Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.3.0 from ubuntu-wine ppa.

The problem is, that when I start the game it goes on like normal for couple of seconds. The intro graphics are shown and they work as normal for a while, but then it freezes and the music continues to play onwards. When pressing a button before the intro freezes over, the main menu is shown for a prompt moment, but it disappears and the whole screen is left blank, and the music continues to play again. I can go with alt-tab to my terminal and kill it, and continue my life as normal, but I can't play the game. Makes me a very sad panda.

So, what can I do? Is there anything I can do? Do I really have to boot my way to XP just to play the bullet dodging extravaganza that the Hydorah is?

[dimesio]

Hi, I'm trying to run this game called Hydorah, a retro styled space shooter in the style of Gradius, on Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.3.0 from ubuntu-wine ppa.

The problem is, that when I start the game it goes on like normal for couple of seconds. The intro graphics are shown and they work as normal for a while, but then it freezes and the music continues to play onwards. When pressing a button before the intro freezes over, the main menu is shown for a prompt moment, but it disappears and the whole screen is left blank, and the music continues to play again. I can go with alt-tab to my terminal and kill it, and continue my life as normal, but I can't play the game. Makes me a very sad panda.

So, what can I do? Is there anything I can do? Do I really have to boot my way to XP just to play the bullet dodging extravaganza that the Hydorah is?

Terminal output? http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

[leaphion]

Terminal herp derp here:

http://pastebin.ca/1916848

Hopefully helps someone to fix me a whoopiedoopie gaming experience!

And for a small extra, a big up for all the ppl working on Wine! Keep up the good work, you've kept me entertained for hours.

[vitamin]

Termina here:
http://pastebin.ca/1916848

Try 'winetricks quartz'.

[leaphion]

Termina here:
http://pastebin.ca/1916848

Try 'winetricks quartz'.

Tried, apparently installed quite flawlessly, just didn't do any good. Any other tricks up the sleeve?

[dimesio]

Tried, apparently installed quite flawlessly, just didn't do any good. Any other tricks up the sleeve?

I downloaded the game, and it works fine here without any tweaks. But I don't have desktop effects enabled. Try turning off desktop effects. If that doesn't work, experiment with running in a virtual desktop and/or allowing/not allowing the window manager to control/decorate the windows.

[leaphion]

Tried, apparently installed quite flawlessly, just didn't do any good. Any other tricks up the sleeve?

I downloaded the game, and it works fine here without any tweaks. But I don't have desktop effects enabled. Try turning off desktop effects. If that doesn't work, experiment with running in a virtual desktop and/or allowing/not allowing the window manager to control/decorate the windows.

Thanks for your help. My visual effects are already none, and in the virtual desktop the game died with an Unexpected Error (last message the terminal blurted out was "err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from apartment threaded to multi-threaded"). Also, same symptoms regardless with or without window manager controlling or decorating any windows.

Rather annoyed by the fact, that apparently everyone seems to run this game just by typing "wine hydorah.exe" in the terminal, except me. Not fair, dammit.

Oh BTW, which version was your wine when you tested the game?

[dimesio]

Oh BTW, which version was your wine when you tested the game?

1.3.0, openSUSE package.

You might want to try downgrading to the Ubuntu 1.2 package, or building 1.3.0 from source. There's been a report of problems with the Ubuntu 1.3.0 package and another game: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23959