[Wine] Re: Get an old game to run

Danno TOOmuchSPAM at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 19 00:52:09 CDT 2007


On 2006-12-19, simik at mne.ru <simik at mne.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to start an old (released in 2001) game Startopia under the
> latest (0.9.27) Wine. It plays some intro videos, flashes loading
> screen for a moment and the whole screen turns white and the process
> quits in a several seconds. The output from console is as follows:
>
<snip>
>
> The same result with Virtual Desktop on/off and with Vertex Shader set
> to Hardware or Emulated.
> The videocard installed is GeForce4 MX with nvidia linux drivers.
> Any ideas how to fix the problem?
>



  While I'm no WINE pro, I have found a couple of games hang after the
intros. Generally, if I have installed under Win95 emulation, but if I
run them under WinNT3.5/4.0 emulation they get past that last hurdle.


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