Sins of a Solar Empire

cast_off · Post by **cast_off** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:04 pm

Hey guys,

I am trying to get Sins of a Solar Empire to work with wine 1.0 rc5. When I attempt to install the game the following things occur.

mike@icarus:~$ wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:richedit:RichEditWndProc_common WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditWndProc_common WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"mike" (nil) 0x7dd36070 (nil) 0x7dd36074 0x7dd36068 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"mike" 0x12101a8 0x7dd36070 0x163cd8 0x7dd36074 0x7dd36068 - stub
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub MigrateFeatureStates -> 2 ignored L"Upgrade" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 3 ignored L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 3899 ignored L"CreateFolder" table values
fixme

DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveExistingProducts -> 2 ignored L"Upgrade" table values
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed wait for semaphore
err:menubuilder:WaitForParentProcess Unable to wait for parent process, error 0
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed wait for semaphore
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink
fixme

DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme

DllCanUnloadNow stub
mike@icarus:~$

The install speeds through and says it is finished but it isn't. The directory created has all the folders but no files located in it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

emkay · Post by **emkay** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:25 am

maybe rights issue or simply the disk is full?

Arthur Squassabia · Post by **Arthur Squassabia** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:01 pm

stardock didn't put any DRM on sins of a solar empire so it cant be rights,
the game does require at least 3GB of harddisk space though

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, emkay <[email protected]> wrote:

maybe rights issue or simply the disk is full?

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Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:43 pm

2008/6/17 cast_off <[email protected]>:

Hey guys,

I am trying to get Sins of a Solar Empire to work with wine 1.0 rc5.

I suggest that you write to IronClad games and let them know that you
would like to play their game under Linux. Here is their address:
http://www.ironcladgames.com/contact.html

While wine may help, it would be better to encourage the developers to
write software that runs natively under Linux.

Dotan Cohen

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jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:30 pm

Looks like they consider Linux and Wine a "waste of their time"

As suggested by TFL BigBANGtheory here is a basic guide to installing Sins of a Solar Empire on Linux using Wine. Please note that Linux is not officially supported by Stardock or Ironclad. Also, please do not send in any minidumps that are generated while running Sins on Linux. The problem may be Linux/Wine related and not a problem with Sins itself so we don't need the nice devs wasting their time looking at them - they have enough work already.

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/171844

Jochen · Post by **Jochen** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:34 am

jeffz schrieb:

Looks like they consider Linux and Wine a "waste of their time"

As suggested by TFL BigBANGtheory here is a basic guide to
installing
Sins of a Solar Empire on Linux using Wine. Please note that Linux is
not officially supported by Stardock or Ironclad. Also, please do not
send in any minidumps that are generated while running Sins on Linux.
The problem may be Linux/Wine related and not a problem with Sins itself
so we don't need the nice devs wasting their time looking at them - they
have enough work already.
http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/171844

that won't help if you want to install from the cdrom, because when you
do so you end up with lots of empty directories. Is there a way to
install a native msi that can handle this?

bye Jochen

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:04 am

I think it's a regression, someone reported on irc a few days ago that it did not install properly, but there appears to be evidence of the install working some months ago since there have been bug reports for the installed application.

I suggested they file a bug report, but it looks like they didn't bother.

Use these instructions to perform a regression test http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11640 suggests that it installed ok in 0.9.55

so, run a regression test between 0.9.55 and 1.0 to track down the commit that caused the bug

then please file a new bug report at http://bugs.winehq.org with the results of the test

Jochen · Post by **Jochen** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:05 pm

jeffz schrieb:

I think it's a regression, someone reported on irc a few days ago
that it did not install properly, but there appears to be evidence of
the install working some months ago since there have been bug reports
for the installed application.

I suggested they file a bug report, but it looks like they didn't
bother.

Use these instructions to perform a regression test
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11640 suggests that it
installed ok in 0.9.55

I just tested 0.9.55 and it does not install the files, only the
directories... just like 1.0

byejochen

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:13 pm

Please file a bug report.

Arthur Squassabia · Post by **Arthur Squassabia** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:37 am

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, jeffz <[email protected]> wrote:

Please file a bug report.

has anyone tried making and mounting ISOs of all of the CDs and making
drives in winecfg to link to them? that might work
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Jochen · Post by **Jochen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:30 am

Arthur Squassabia schrieb:

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, jeffz <[email protected]> wrote:

Please file a bug report.

has anyone tried making and mounting ISOs of all of the CDs and making
drives in winecfg to link to them? that might work

to do what? it is not a copy protection problem.

bye Jochen