games wont boot

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:27 pm

Hey I'm trying to start ArmA, and it gets to the intro movie, then it just shuts down. does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:43 pm

More informations can help us finding the reason.

What version of wine do you use ?
What version of the game do you use ?
What OS are you using ?

Also run the game from a terminal and paste here the output.

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:45 pm

i'm using 1.0 rc1
I'm using base version 1.06, i'm installing 1.08 and 1.12 later
i'm using kubuntu 8.04 64bit kde4

let me get the terminal data in a minute

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:52 pm

Adding a link to the AppDB page:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=4362
But these results are kind of old.

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:13 pm

ok i need a little help, whenever i try to boot in in konsole, it gives me directory not found, could you please confirm for me the command i put in konsole to get the run it with konsole debug?

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:36 pm

I can't give you the exact command as it depends on where the game is installed.
First you need to go to the right directory (the one containing the exe):

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cd ~/.wine/drive_c/folder/of/the/game

For example:

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cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Game

And once you are in the right folder just run:

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wine name_of_the_exe.exe

If you haven't been able to do it and you know the name of the exe file and/or where it is installed in windows,

Note 1 : I don't know KDE, so there might be a way to open a terminal in the right folder graphically.
Note 2 : The wine folder in your home directory is hidden, you will need to show hidden files to go there graphically.[/code]

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:13 am

heres a link to the konsole info log http://pastebin.com/m8fa5551

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:27 am

wine: Call from 0x7b844800 to unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateFragmentLinker, aborting

Add the DLL d3dx9_36.dll in the game folder.
You can find it easily by googling it's name.
But don't install complete a DirectX, just add this dll.

And there is already a bug report for this problem here :
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12757

It should go further with this. Also the game seems to be using animated cursors, wine does not support this right now so there might be some issue the the mouse cursor.
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10708 for the cursors)

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:54 am

put in the dll and now i get this http://pastebin.com/m76089f22
any ideas what is going wrong with it?

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:39 am

No, sorry I have no idea what is going on now.

You might try by killing compiz before running the game. To do that type in Konsole :

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kwin --replace&

And start the game. But I'm not sure of the improvement.

After googling a little I found that this might help you (but I don't really know) :

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"

Put that in a file and import it using regedit.

th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:23 pm

ok i did the regedit stuff and now i tried it with and without killing compiz, i hope this helps, because i'm not able to figure it out myself as i'm fairly new to linux.

without killing compiz http://pastebin.com/f5aa10b11
with killing compiz http://pastebin.com/f66e085e7

gnivler · Post by **gnivler** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:09 pm

th3flyboy wrote:

ok i did the regedit stuff and now i tried it with and without killing compiz, i hope this helps, because i'm not able to figure it out myself as i'm fairly new to linux.

without killing compiz http://pastebin.com/f5aa10b11
with killing compiz http://pastebin.com/f66e085e7

Copy protection issue maybe? It looks like it's got SecureROM v7 on it,
which is listed as Not Working here
http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyProtection. Hope it helps.
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th3flyboy · Post by **th3flyboy** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:00 pm

any idea why it wont work, or when it will work?

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:23 pm

th3flyboy wrote:any idea why it wont work, or when it will work?

You can open a bug on bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.org/)
There are more technical people in there and they might find what is going on.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:34 pm

Tlarhices wrote:
th3flyboy wrote:any idea why it wont work, or when it will work?
You can open a bug on bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.org/)
There are more technical people in there and they might find what is going on.

Please don't point users to bugzilla to solve their problems. It's to report bugs that some day might be fixed.

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:51 pm

vitamin wrote:
Tlarhices wrote:
th3flyboy wrote:any idea why it wont work, or when it will work?
You can open a bug on bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.org/)
There are more technical people in there and they might find what is going on.
Please don't point users to bugzilla to solve their problems. It's to report bugs that some day might be fixed.

Looks like a bug to me. And hopefully it will be solved one day.
If you don't think it's a bug, please explain me why so I will not do this error once more.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:38 am

Tlarhices wrote:
vitamin wrote:
Tlarhices wrote: You can open a bug on bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.org/)
There are more technical people in there and they might find what is going on.
Please don't point users to bugzilla to solve their problems. It's to report bugs that some day might be fixed.
Looks like a bug to me. And hopefully it will be solved one day.
If you don't think it's a bug, please explain me why so I will not do this error once more.

I didn't say it's not a bug. It looks like is. Just don't tell users "go to bugzilla for support".