Wine and Baldur's Gate

[Ian D . Stewart]

On 2001.12.16 21:19:19 -0500 Ian D . Stewart wrote:
> 
> On 2001.12.15 12:01:27 -0500 Ian D . Stewart wrote:
>> 
>> On 2001.12.15 09:22:03 -0500 J.Brown (Ender/Amigo) wrote:
>>> Try the latest cvs with the OSS sound patch posted on wine-devel by 
>>> eric
>>> pouech about a dozen messages ago. Use the second version of the patch,
>>> not the first :)
>>> 
>>> That should help the sound problems at least...
>> 
>> Well, I've checked out source from CVS, which apparently already 
>> includes eric's patch.  I'm now getting anew error message:
>> 
>> 	This sound card's driver does not support direct access
>> 	The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
>> 
>> After I click 'Play', the opening credits start, then within a few 
>> seconds the process dies.  Unfortunately it does so without resetting 
>> the X display mode to 800x600.
> 
> Well, I've made a little more progress.
> 
> I can run the app By cd'ing to the Baldur's Gate directory and running 
> 'wine BGMain.exe'.  Once within the game itself, if I go into Options 
> (the button that looks like a floppy), then select 'Graphics', then 
> enable 'Software Standard BLT', the bottom and right hand panels are 
> displayed properly.
> 
> I still don't get any sound in the game itself (sound works fine in the 
> opening credits and intro movie).  I'm guessing this has something to do 
> with the error message
> 
> 	fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_QueryInterface Unknown GUID 
> {31efac30-515c-11d0-a9aa-00aa0061be93}

Not sure if it's related or just plain dumb luck, but after uninstalling, 
then reinstalling and selecting 'less than 200 MHz' for the processor 
speed, sound now works.  The characters move about a bit slower, but at 
least it works...


Ian

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