Concerning running old CDV games like Cossacks
Concerning running old CDV games like Cossacks
I have Cossacks Back to War and American Conquest Fight Back; they run well on low end computers and are quite old.
I have encountered many reports from google search that these games work for some people, but I have not gotten it to work.
I notice that when I load American Conquest, music plays but all I see is a black screen. Same for Cossacks. I know also the games play and work because I can hear gameplay when I enter editor (by guessing) and when the game engine tests a battle in its screensavers (which is a replay of a battle I can hear).
Its game engine works, sound works, but no video, no menu, no rendering of anything. Any ideas? I've been tinkering with ddraw.dll and found it will load the game in builtin, but will not render anything. it won't even start with any other settings.
I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 32bit, if that helps.
Any ideas? I'm stumped.
I have encountered many reports from google search that these games work for some people, but I have not gotten it to work.
I notice that when I load American Conquest, music plays but all I see is a black screen. Same for Cossacks. I know also the games play and work because I can hear gameplay when I enter editor (by guessing) and when the game engine tests a battle in its screensavers (which is a replay of a battle I can hear).
Its game engine works, sound works, but no video, no menu, no rendering of anything. Any ideas? I've been tinkering with ddraw.dll and found it will load the game in builtin, but will not render anything. it won't even start with any other settings.
I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 32bit, if that helps.
Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Re: Concerning running old CDV games like Cossacks
Try running the game from terminal and post the output.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal
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It got worse when i did that. Now it won't load at all as if I installed a wrongly compiled mod (I know because I have experience with this game engine in windows)
results in
And various ''string not found'' errors associated with bad mods. Oddly, the game still works the same way as I said before in my previous post when I load the game by double clicking it.
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wine start 'C:\Program Files\Cossacks\dmcr.exe'
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fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
Re: Concerning running old CDV games like Cossacks
The latest AppDB test report for American Conquest is pretty old, but it does mention the exact problem you describe, and has a workaround that is derived from a similar report for Cossacks EW. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=24902
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I did that already actually.
Now it loads an error box without loading when i do those instructions:
Now it loads an error box without loading when i do those instructions:
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LoadNativeDirectDraw() failed with error 127: Procedure not found.
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How do I fix "LoadNativeDirectDraw" fail? Do I download extra dlls? What do I need?
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Best way it's to run program from folder. And why you use wine start? Simple wine enough.miggoycor wrote:It got worse when i did that. Now it won't load at all as if I installed a wrongly compiled mod (I know because I have experience with this game engine in windows)Code: Select all
wine start 'C:\Program Files\Cossacks\dmcr.exe'
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From all over the internet, I am told do do this:
It works for them and not for me. When I
it now returns as
Are there workarounds for problems like this? What is LoadNativeDirectDraw? Are there dlls I need to download? Is this related to wine's new bugs mentioned here http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15802, (since I use Linux Mint 14 Cinammon based on Ubunto 12.04)?
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"dciman32"="native"
"ddraw"="native,builtin"
"ddrawex"="native"
"devenum"="native"
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wine 'C:Cossacks\dmcr.exe'
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LoadNativeDirectDraw() failed with error 127: Procedure not found.