DDraw error in fullscreen with edutainment game Physikus

emgebe · Post by **emgebe** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:06 pm

Hey folks,
I have a question regarding Wine on a Mac. I’m quite familiar with my Mac and the Terminal, but you can call me a newbie on Wine.
I run OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and installed Wine 1.6.2 via Macports.

The case:
I am trying to run Physikus (one of these old Heureka-Klett edutainment games from Germany, 2002) on the Mac via Wine. The installation process (where fullscreen is not used) works nice and smooth, but when starting the installed game (Physikus.exe) with Wine, it opens in fullscreen and I get a Director Player Error (“Index out of range”) in a message box. In Terminal, it says

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err:ddraw:ddraw_surface_update_frontbuffer Failed to blit to/from screen.

What I learned so far, is that this appears to be a problem with DDraw, the DirectX engine, but unfortunately not how to fix it. Hopefully, someone can help me.
Thanks!