rift won't start

neganx · Post by **neganx** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:12 am

I have seen some posts about rift, but none about the problems I am having, I have downloaded the patch, everything should be ready to go, but when I hit the start button, it thinks for a second and then just goes back to the regular "play" button. I have installed using winetricks.. I am not too familiar with wine, but I did get wow running a while ago..

any help would be greatly appriciated, I would also like to get lotro running, it is downloading right now. Why dont' they just make linux clients? lol

thanks in advance
neganx

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:13 am

On 06/29/2011 05:12 AM, neganx wrote:

I have seen some posts about rift, but none about the problems I am having, I have downloaded the patch, everything should be ready to go, but when I hit the start button, it thinks for a second and then just goes back to the regular "play" button. I have installed using winetricks.. I am not too familiar with wine, but I did get wow running a while ago..

Can you start the launcher from a terminal and see if it is giving you
any error messages when this happens? That may give at least a general
idea of where to start and/or may match something already listed in the
appdb.

any help would be greatly appriciated, I would also like to get lotro running, it is downloading right now. Why dont' they just make linux clients? lol

Usually it's best to do a different thread to ask about a each game
unless the problem you have is the same in all of them. It makes it
easier for people who may be able to help to see and follow the
discussion. That said, LotRO seems to be a pretty easy setup. So far the
PyLotRO launcher seems to work well and the directions on it's website
are pretty clear. If you run into trouble it would be best to start a
new thread for that and include any error messages you get.

neganx · Post by **neganx** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:54 am

ok, sorry about that, I am a command line guy, but not at all comfortable with wine yet, just haven't really played with it, here is the command line output, the launcher opens from the desktop icon.. but not from command line, I may be attempting to run the wrong program in the folder as well, again most threads I have found on rift say everything works but the... (insert in-game problem)

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s3ct10n_8@wreckingball~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/RIFT Game$ wine rift.exe
err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe" failed, status c0000135

thanks again
neganx

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:16 pm

On 06/29/2011 12:54 PM, neganx wrote:

Code:
s3ct10n_8@wreckingball~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/RIFT Game$ wine rift.exe
err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe" failed, status c0000135

Many games have both a 'game.exe' and a 'launcher.exe' in the same
folder. Do you see a launcher.exe or any other .exe in the same folder
as the one you tried?

this part of the error:

err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found

has potential to be the problem. I believe you can use winecfg to check
and/or change the override for that library between native and built in,
trying whichever it is not currently set to may help - but I have not
had to do so for a program before so maybe someone else with experience
there can chime in on that.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:19 pm

Sorry for another post - just noticed that I didn't see what version of
wine you are using, if it is anything lower than 1.3.22 the best thing
to try would be upgrading to that (or newer) to rule out problems that
have already been fixed.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:02 pm

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, neganx <[email protected]> wrote:

ok, sorry about that, I am a command line guy, but not at all comfortable with wine yet, just haven't really played with it,
here is the command line output, the launcher opens from the desktop icon.. but not from command line, I may be
attempting to run the wrong program in the folder as well, again most threads I have found on rift say everything works but
the... (insert in-game problem)

Code:
s3ct10n_8@wreckingball~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/RIFT Game$ wine rift.exe
err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found

The winetricks script is your friend at this point.
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks provides information on how to
obtain and use this script.