C&C :D

[Bryan DeGrendel]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
<m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  2008/3/23, Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com>:
>
>
> >  2008/3/23, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>:
>  >
>  > > > Hi all!
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is
>  >  >  > available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer
>  >  >  > works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but
>  >  >  > that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from
>  >  >  > the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Cheers,
>  >  >  > Maarten.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Hi Maarten,
>  >  >
>  >  >  It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
>  >
>  > Tested that, none of the opengl modes work well:
>  >
>  >  disabled: In the menu I only get the menu, not the text that's written on it.
>  >  readtex: I get a white texture with only the text
>  >  textex: Nothing at all
>  >  readdraw: fails too
>  >
>  >  I'll play without opengl I think.
>  Hold on, even without opengl it will fail sometimes dramatically, it
>  will stop updating the screen entirely if you fiddle around with the
>  menu too much. After that it doesn't work any more at all.
>
>
>

Are you working on a SMP system?  I had redraw problems with C&C Red
Alert on my Athlon X2, but the schedtool solution presented in bug
4487 worked for me [ http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4487 ].

schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine

Bryan DeGrendel