Childrens Game: Barbie Pegasus does not run

imthemp3king · Post by **imthemp3king** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:06 pm

Hello All,

I recently converted my wife over to Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to do the same to my children's PC. I have checked AppDB and was unable to find a listing for this game already. I am testing their games in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) with Ubuntu 8.04 and wine-1.0-rc2. When I double-click on the icon for the game, it thinks for a minute like it was trying to launch but then nothing. So I launched it from a terminal session and this is the error I get:
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 2d1400 (device=2d access=0 func=500 method=0)
That is the only line I get and it returns to the prompt. I have no overrides in place, nothing non-default and have not used winetricks.
Thank you in advance for any assistance that is provided.

Thanks again,
Mike

Sleaka J · Post by **Sleaka J** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:19 pm

A virtual machine is not a good way to test anything that requires graphics as the video card reported to the OS in the virtual machine is a generic S3 (really old) video chip and does not support or allow ANY 3D rendering and has very limited 2D support (Hence your "device=2d access=0" error message).

Virtual Machines are really only good for office apps and anything that doesn't require hardware access. Games require access to the video and sound card (depending on the age of the game), and will end up trying to use the aging S3 chipset in a VM, which will result in it working extremely slowly (rare) or not at all (99% of cases).

I honestly can't wait for the day when VM's either emulate a 3D chipset (hopefully something like a TNT2) or allow direct access to the video card installed in the PC, but currently virtual machines don't run games.

imthemp3king · Post by **imthemp3king** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:37 pm

Thanks so much for the fast and informative reply. So far this is the only game I have had trouble getting to work, most are older games or games with very low requirements. This just happens to be one of the few with 3D graphics that they play.. Maybe I will install 8.04 using Wubi and test that way (since I believe that gives me access to the hardware like a normal install, without messing up the Windows OS). Thanks again for the reply!

lists · Post by **lists** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:44 pm

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Thanks so much for the fast and informative reply. So far this is
the only game I have had trouble getting to work, most are older
games or games with very low requirements. This just happens to be
one of the few with 3D graphics that they play.. Maybe I will
install 8.04 using Wubi and test that way (since I believe that
gives me access to the hardware like a normal install, without
messing up the Windows OS). Thanks again for the reply!

at all ubuntu shouldnt mess up anything with your windows installation

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:51 pm

imthemp3king wrote:Thanks so much for the fast and informative reply. So far this is the only game I have had trouble getting to work, most are older games or games with very low requirements. This just happens to be one of the few with 3D graphics that they play.. Maybe I will install 8.04 using Wubi and test that way (since I believe that gives me access to the hardware like a normal install, without messing up the Windows OS). Thanks again for the reply!

That would be even worse. NTFS driver is still defective and does not support all the features required. What's even worse - some windows programs might damage your windows file system.

In your case it seems some sort of copy-protection or something that tries to get a low-level information about cdrom or hard disk - IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY