broken controls in "Captain Claw" game

leniviy · Post by **leniviy** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:08 am

Hi. I want to play the old '97 game "Claw". It installs and runs, but strangly I can't jump in it! No matter what I use, keyboard or gamepad.
Normally, if you tap the spacebar, the character makes a low jump; if you hold the spacebar, he makes a high jump. However, under wine all jumps are low. Other movements work fine though.
I even tried to run the game under winxp guest in VirtualBox, but had the same problem. reassigning keys doesn't help.
I just don't get it: when holding the movement keys, the char moves steadily. That means, the game knows, that I hold the key. Why it doesn't see that when I hold the "jump" key?
Multimedia timers maybe?

wine-1.1.26
xf86-video-ati 6.12.2
xorg-server 1.6.2

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:51 am

leniviy wrote:I even tried to run the game under winxp guest in VirtualBox, but had the same problem. reassigning keys doesn't help.

Then it's clearly not a Wine issue.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:26 pm

leniviy wrote:Normally, if you tap the spacebar, the character makes a low jump; if you hold the spacebar, he makes a high jump. However, under wine all jumps are low. Other movements work fine though.

Sounds like key-repeat bug in Xorg. Disable key auto-repeat.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:15 pm

leniviy wrote:

Hi. I want to play the old '97 game "Claw". It installs and runs, but strangly I can't jump in it! No matter what I use, keyboard or gamepad.
Normally, if you tap the spacebar, the character makes a low jump; if you hold the spacebar, he makes a high jump. However, under wine all jumps are low. Other movements work fine though.
I even tried to run the game under winxp guest in VirtualBox, but had the same problem. reassigning keys doesn't help.
I just don't get it: when holding the movement keys, the char moves steadily. That means, the game knows, that I hold the key. Why it doesn't see that when I hold the "jump" key?
Multimedia timers maybe?

wine-1.1.26
xf86-video-ati 6.12.2
xorg-server 1.6.2

Check, in Linux, when keyboard repeating starts and if this is enabled.
This is only a suggestion as this is not a Wine problem.

James McKenzie

laasonen · Post by **laasonen** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:48 pm

Running "xset r off" has no effect to Claw

Kajinek · Post by **Kajinek** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:25 am

I know it is not a wine issue, but I have the very same problem now and there is no other thread anywhere which would be discussing it. I tried to turn key-repating off and on and set various timing for it but without any success. Sometimes Claw does a "long" jump but I control when it does happen.

Has anyone found a sollution?