Any luck with wine?

[Ed Kolis]

Anyone had any luck getting this game to run with Wine on Linux lately? The best I can do is get the main menu, and then when I hit play I get a gray screen and then if I hit escape I get a runtime error 216...

I hope SE5 works with Wine...

edit: ah, I found something in the terminal output which might be helpful:

err:xvidmode:ComputeGammaFromRamp inverted or flat gamma ramp (0->0), rejected

Looks like the game's default gamma ramp (not entirely sure what that is but I know it has something to do with translating brightness levels) is invalid... I wonder how to get around that...

[Suicide Junkie]

It uses directX.

There should be a wineX around that implements the directx stuff.

[Ed Kolis]

Supposedly wine supports old versions of DirectX and you only need winex/cedega for DirectX 9, though...

[Gandalf_greypilgrim]

I am the starfury maintainer over at the wine appdb, and I have been working trying to get this game to run for a very long time, with very little luck at all. Wine should be sufficient to run it, as it uses direct8, cedega/winex is mostly used for directx9, but also for securerom support. Wine now has its own dx9 implementation, but is useless since starfury is dx8. I've tried about a dozen different wine versions and they all behave similarly, and it is even worse when in cedega/winex. I'm probably going to take a very hard look into debugging the problem over the march break next week, I'll keep you posted.

Edit: In fact, would be neat if a bunch of us met on irc and figured out what was going on. If we can arrange that I'll post on wine-devel and see if we can get some devs to join in.

[Thilock_Dominus]

Yup, I havn't any luck with Cedega either. To bad :/

[Ed Kolis]

Thank you Gandalf_greypilgrim!!!
Yes, let's arrange a meeting on IRC... who knows, maybe we could even get some input from Aaron Hall if we're really lucky?

[Annette]

I'm curious...is anyone playing Space Empires IV Gold with Cedega? Or any of our titles?