Problem with Older Game

[DarkCrescent]

Hello, quick question. I've already tried a Google search, couldn't turn anything up. I'm trying to play a somewhat older game, Space Empires V. I've installed it in a 32-bit prefix and enabled orm=backbuffer, which was enough for someone else running Linux Mint to get it to work. The main menu opens fine, but immediately in the Terminal the following starts printing:

fixme:amstream:AudioMediaStreamImpl_IAudioMediaStream_GetFormat (0x3b22154/0x3b22150)->(0xe6c178) stub!
fixme:amstream:AudioMediaStreamImpl_IAudioMediaStream_GetFormat (0x3b22fdc/0x3b22fd8)->(0xe6c1f4) stub!
fixme:amstream:AudioMediaStreamImpl_IAudioMediaStream_GetFormat (0x3b23e64/0x3b23e60)->(0xe6c270) stub!
fixme:amstream:AudioMediaStreamImpl_IAudioMediaStream_GetFormat (0x3b24cec/0x3b24ce8)->(0xe6c2ec) stub!


That's just a small sample. It keeps going until it crashes and Wine gives me an error about too many files open, which I assume is because the above happens several thousand times. I think it's something simple to do with an audio device or something, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[mogorva]

If you want hear in-game music you need to install some native dlls, use

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winetricks --force devenum amstream quartz

For some reason this must be repeated *twice* in order to successfully register quartz.dll

If you can live without music provided by the game, open up regedit and navigate to

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires V

and change the value of the 'Play Music' registry key from 1 to 0.

Even with orm=backbuffer the game is barely playable for me.

[DarkCrescent]

Ehh, the music isn't that great anyway. Thanks! I'll try that out in a bit, soon as this render is done.

Also, the game was often "barely playable" even under Windows, so here's hoping...