[Wine] broken controls in "Captain Claw" game

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 1 17:14:25 CDT 2009


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





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