Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams stops at game logo

[firekage]

Hi.

I'd like to ask for your help. I own mentioned above game, it runs under steam. I can launch steam, than the game but it won't load. Previously it worked, now it won't. I don'kt know much about run a debug, this game runs under steam. Could somebody help me? I can only run ith, set up, then when i click "play" i see producer logo and nothing more.

I run Arch 64 bit with multilib repo for 32 bit programs.
My drivers are nvidia drivers 346.35 and kernel 3.18.2.2

Help and thanks.

[dimesio]

Wine version? Did the problem appear with an upgrade to Wine? If so, does downgrading Wine fix it?

[firekage]

Wine version? Did the problem appear with an upgrade to Wine? If so, does downgrading Wine fix it?

Well, i use Arch, downgarding wine is not an easy option. In repo there is only the newest:1.7.35.1. In AUR there is 1.2 and 1.7 branch. I would like to stick with version from repo, not created by AUR (often AUR can break system). I don't want to try something that i'm not good at. Also, on current wine version i can play, without problems with games like WarThunder (often, one of games that i play rather often), Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2.

I tried to change wine wersion under playonlinux, but result was the same - stops at producer logo screen.

[dimesio]

Try reinstalling the game to a clean wineprefix under 1.7.35. If that doesn't fix it, run a regression test and file a bug. http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

[firekage]

Clean wine prefix means exacly what? As i said, i'm not an expert with wine.

I use something like this

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine

I tried many times to remove all of wine, installing it again and again. I will try to read regression chapter.

Edit: i'm not able to build what's mentioned in link. I run x64 system, and it can't build x32 bit wine. There is no faq to Arch with building it for tests.

[dimesio]

Uninstalling Wine won't touch any existing wineprefixes. You would have to delete ~/.wine manually, but if you have other games installed there that you want to keep, don't do that. Just create a new wineprefix for the game with the problem and install it to that. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix

[firekage]

Yes, thanks. I did it several times, not only with new prefix but also removing all wine things and configs by rm -rf .wine and pacman -Rns wine - game stops at the same producer logo screen.

[mogorva]

firekage,

I suspect you have the issue because the game hangs when trying to play the intro video.

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fixme:wmvcore:WMReader_Open (0x3e14b720)->(L"data_common\\BFG Logo 1080p.wmv" 0x4ec37240 (nil))

Install WMP10 via winetricks: winetricks wmp10

It's not really a regression because the intro video didn't play in earlier Wine versions either, it was simply skipped. Now it hangs.

[firekage]

firekage,

I suspect you have the issue because the game hangs when trying to play the intro video.

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fixme:wmvcore:WMReader_Open (0x3e14b720)->(L"data_common\\BFG Logo 1080p.wmv" 0x4ec37240 (nil))

Install WMP10 via winetricks: winetricks wmp10

It's not really a regression because the intro video didn't play in earlier Wine versions either, it was simply skipped. Now it hangs.

Thank You VERY MUCH! It works now. I can play it. I have only one problem now. I can't lanuch steam from desktop. It's soething wrong with wineprefix, i think. Could you also help me with that? I can run Giania Sisters from desktop launcher with this

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe steam://rungameid/223220

but steam with this:

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe Steam

Won't start. What i did wrong? I can't lunch steam standalone, but running game works from Giana desktop icon. Steam icon doesen't.


Update: i fixed it in a dirty way, in fact, don't understand in 100% this process but it works. I just reinstalled Steam, it did not delete my steam folder in wine with all settings and downloaded games but desktop launcher now look like this

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/firekage/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Pulpit/Steam.lnk

I don't know why there is Unix after start.exe and don't know why there is Steam.lnk instead of Steam.exe.

[mogorva]

Thank You VERY MUCH! It works now. I can play it. I have only one problem now. I can't lanuch steam from desktop. It's soething wrong with wineprefix, i think. Could you also help me with that? I can run Giania Sisters from desktop launcher with this

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe steam://rungameid/223220

but steam with this:

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe Steam

Won't start. What i did wrong? I can't lunch steam standalone, but running game works from Giana desktop icon. Steam icon doesen't.

I never launches anything via desktop icons, I'm using the command line instead.
I think you should modify the desktop launcher:

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/firekage/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"

[firekage]

Out of curiosity - how you launch games from the command line? Also, some of them needs other service, mentioned Giana Sisters need steam to work, to be launched, so how would like the command in terminal looks like?