Homeworld 2 fails to launch

Arthur Squassabia · Post by **Arthur Squassabia** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:28 pm

I haven't been able to get HW2 to launch under wine

when i try it always spits out this along with a TON of fixmes, all having
something to do with dxdiag

wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceProperty, aborting
wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceToVerify, aborting

any ideas?

all of the wineappdb tests have been reported as garbage, so am i fighting
for a lost cause or has someone managed to get it to work.

I've herd it works with cedega

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:37 pm

Arthur Squassabia wrote:I haven't been able to get HW2 to launch under wine

when i try it always spits out this along with a TON of fixmes, all having
something to do with dxdiag

wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceProperty, aborting
wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceToVerify, aborting

Looks like it needs some "no-cd" patch(es) applied before it can work.

Arthur Squassabia · Post by **Arthur Squassabia** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:57 pm

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Arthur Squassabia wrote:
I haven't been able to get HW2 to launch under wine

when i try it always spits out this along with a TON of fixmes, all
having
something to do with dxdiag

wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceProperty, aborting
wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceToVerify, aborting

Looks like it needs some "no-cd" patch(es) applied before it can work.

why? i configured wine to recognize my disk drive?

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Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:29 pm

>> wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
>> ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceProperty, aborting
This is a call to the kind of function that can be used by copy protection systems. In any case this specific function does not exists in wine currently (that's what the 'unimplemented function' is saying) so this game will not work right now under wine.
If this call is made only by the copy protection system then using that kind of 'patch' may be used as a really bad workaround, if this call is made by any other part of the program then it will still not work.

There is already a bug report for this problem here :
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13033
You can vote for it to show your interest in this bug and help solve it from bugzilla (like by answering Lei Zhang's question)

Arthur Squassabia · Post by **Arthur Squassabia** » Thu May 08, 2008 11:01 pm

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Tlarhices <[email protected]> wrote:

wine: Call from 0x7b841e00 to unimplemented function
ntoskrnl.exe.IoGetDeviceProperty, aborting
This is a call to the kind of function that can be used by copy protection
systems. In any case this specific function does not exists in wine
currently (that's what the 'unimplemented function' is saying) so this game
will not work right now under wine.
If this call is made only by the copy protection system then using that
kind of 'patch' may be used as a really bad workaround, if this call is made
by any other part of the program then it will still not work.

There is already a bug report for this problem here :
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13033
You can vote for it to show your interest in this bug and help solve it
from bugzilla (like by answering Lei Zhang's question)

I answered lei's question (which was that the demo didn't work either) and
i tried the nocd patch. both the demo and the nocd patched game got rid of
the error involving the anit-piracy checker but the game still didn't run
and a ton of (i think directx) errors still show up

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