problem when starting steam game dead island

melancholy · Post by **melancholy** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:04 pm

Hi guys,
I need some help..
I purchased the game dead island and tried to run it using the information on the appdb, but apparently, the game just hangs itself.

The terminal output:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0keTI ... kh2a2tJTWM

I created a new wineprefix, wine version was 1.5.5.
Apart from the things the installer installed (d3dx9, vcrun2008, WMF), I also installed wmp10 via winetricks.

That output doesn't even give me an idea what might be wrong, could anyone help please?

Post by **DanKegel** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:24 pm

That's a nasty looking crash.

What version of Linux is this?

melancholy · Post by **melancholy** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:59 pm

hi DanKegel, I'm using debian x64

Post by **DanKegel** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:30 pm

Which debian?

i.e. what do
uname -a
lsb_release -a
cat /etc/issue
say?

melancholy · Post by **melancholy** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:19 am

This is the output:

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uname -a
Linux starflare 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 17:45:41 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release:        testing
Codename:       wheezy

cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l

does this help?

mogorva · Post by **mogorva** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:06 am

This forum post could help (update Xserver packages on Debian):
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=79859

Another similar problem in Wine bugzilla:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30775

melancholy · Post by **melancholy** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:31 pm

great, thank you mogorva.

The link to the debian forums provided me with the necessary information to temporary fix this ^.^

now, I just need to get sound to work in dead island, and everything's fine again