PopCap games won't work any longer!!!

Berserkr · Post by **Berserkr** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:16 pm

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 and, ever since then, I am not able to play any PopCap games at all whatsoever via Wine. Everytime I play any PopCap game via Wine, I get the following error message....

Can anybody please explain to me what this means and what can be done to fix this problem? Here is the entire bugging message contained in that error window:

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 00454D55 in thread 1A
Module: popcapgame1.exe
Logical Address: 0001:00053D55

0032E5E0 00454D55 0001:00053D55 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 00000000 0032E608 00000800 0032EE6C

0032EE90 00454461 0001:00053461 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 004E9DC0 7EE34047 0032EF3C 0032F024

0032EEF8 00453A09 0001:00052A09 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 0032EF3C 00000000 0033FEF8 C0000005

0032EF10 004B4386 0001:000B3386 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 00000000 0032EF3C 004B22B3 0032EF44

0033FF08 004AB9C4 0001:000AA9C4 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 7FFDF000 00000000 00000000 00000000

0033FFE8 7EE66C18 start_process+98
Params: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

StackWalk failed (error 998)

EAX:00000050 EBX:00000000 ECX:00110054 EDX:00110058 ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000
EIP:00454D55 ESP:0032E5B8 EBP:0032E5E0
CS:0073 SS:007B DS:007B ES:007B FS:0033 GS:003B
Flags:00210206

Windows Ver: NT 5.1 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
DDraw Ver: 5.3.1.904
DSound Ver: 5.3.1.904

Product: RocketMania
Version: 1.01
Build Num: 84
Build Date: Mon Sep 08 22:30:57 2003
Time Loaded: 00:00:14
Times Played: 0
Fullscreen: Yes
Primary ThreadId: 1A

BTW, I am using Wine v1.1.9. And yes, I did try using Wine 1.0.1 and I did get the same results. Thanks to anyone who can help me.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:28 pm

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Berserkr <[email protected]> wrote:

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 and, ever since then, I am not able to play any PopCap games at all whatsoever via Wine. Everytime I play any PopCap game via Wine, I get the following error message....

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Can anybody please explain to me what this means and what can be done to fix this problem? Here is the entire bugging message contained in that error window:

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 00454D55 in thread 1A
Module: popcapgame1.exe
Logical Address: 0001:00053D55

0032E5E0 00454D55 0001:00053D55 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 00000000 0032E608 00000800 0032EE6C

0032EE90 00454461 0001:00053461 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 004E9DC0 7EE34047 0032EF3C 0032F024

0032EEF8 00453A09 0001:00052A09 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 0032EF3C 00000000 0033FEF8 C0000005

0032EF10 004B4386 0001:000B3386 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 00000000 0032EF3C 004B22B3 0032EF44

0033FF08 004AB9C4 0001:000AA9C4 popcapgame1.exe
Params: 7FFDF000 00000000 00000000 00000000

0033FFE8 7EE66C18 start_process+98
Params: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

StackWalk failed (error 998)

EAX:00000050 EBX:00000000 ECX:00110054 EDX:00110058 ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000
EIP:00454D55 ESP:0032E5B8 EBP:0032E5E0
CS:0073 SS:007B DS:007B ES:007B FS:0033 GS:003B
Flags:00210206

Windows Ver: NT 5.1 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
DDraw Ver: 5.3.1.904
DSound Ver: 5.3.1.904

Product: RocketMania
Version: 1.01
Build Num: 84
Build Date: Mon Sep 08 22:30:57 2003
Time Loaded: 00:00:14
Times Played: 0
Fullscreen: Yes
Primary ThreadId: 1A

BTW, I am using Wine v1.1.9. And yes, I did try using Wine 1.0.1 and I did get the same results. Thanks to anyone who can help me.

What version of wine previously worked?

--
-Austin

Berserkr · Post by **Berserkr** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:37 am

I really couldn't tell you. I never bothered to check the version of Wine I was using when Wine was rendering those games correctly. I'll try an earlier version of Wine. Maybe that will work.

Berserkr · Post by **Berserkr** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:19 am

I installed Wine 0.9.61 i386 and I am still unable to get any PopCap games to work. I cannot uninstall & install every version of Wine until I, hopefully, get a version that works. Is there anyone in this forum who can, from looking at the error information I provided, tell me why I am no longer able to run PopCap games successfully? I imagine that the person or people who develop Wine frequent this forum often. Can any of you please tell me why I am not able to play those games any longer? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:47 am

Berserkr wrote: I imagine that the person or people who develop Wine frequent this forum often. Can any of you please tell me why I am not able to play those games any longer?

No, actually, the developers for the most part don't frequent the forum.

As to why you can no longer play these games, my first guess would be this:

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.1

I don't use Ubuntu myself, but from reading the forum regularly, I get the distinct impression that 8.10 has lots of problems with Wine.

As to practical suggestions (other than downgrading to 8.04): when you tried different versions of Wine did you reinstall the games to a clean wineprefix? For that matter, when you upgraded to 8.10 did you reinstall the games to a clean wineprefix? If the answer is no, then try that. Delete or rename ~/.wine and reinstall your games; a new ~/.wine will automatically be created. If you've tried that, and it didn't work, then post console output.

Berserkr · Post by **Berserkr** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:12 pm

I think I'll try something other than Ubuntu. I think I'll give Debian a run & see how that works out. Thank you for your prompt reply.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:50 am

Berserkr wrote:I think I'll try something other than Ubuntu. I think I'll give Debian a run & see how that works out. Thank you for your prompt reply.

curious if the upgrade changed which video drivers you were using

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:10 pm

Berserkr wrote:I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 and, ever since then, I am not able to play any PopCap games at all whatsoever via Wine. Everytime I play any PopCap game via Wine, I get the following error message....

At least Peggle Extreme works fine here (not ubuntu). So you have to ask your distro forum what did they broke.
I'll start from completely removing (yes removing not disabling it doesn't work) pulseaudio. Installing latest (yes latest as can be found of manufacturer's website) video drivers, not what comes with ubuntu.