[Bug 10979] Descent FreeSpace Retail and Demo hang

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10979


Arno Schuring <aelschuring at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Arno Schuring <aelschuring at hotmail.com>  2008-05-01 10:30:29 ---
I'm also experiencing problems when trying to run Freespace. I seem to remember
having it working under wine before (ancient history - probably near 0.9.30 or
maybe even older), but I could be wrong. Right now my system is an up-to-date
Ubuntu Hardy on AMD64, with wine-0.9.59 (from the Ubuntu repositories).

First I get a message about missing ADPCM support ("Could not properly
initialize the Microsoft ADPCM codec"), but the game will continue to start. It
will even switch the screen to 640x480 mode, but then the software seems to be
hanging in a polling loop somewhere:

fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap (0x11e0000, 0x1) stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x31eea4,0x00000000), stub!
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e2980 "?" wait timed out in
thread 001e, blocked by 001d, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e2980 "?" wait timed out in
thread 001e, blocked by 001d, retrying (60 sec)

This appears to be a deadlock condition in ntdll. 

I have not experienced any glibc error messages.

Note 1: the games' readme.txt mentions the error message about MSACM:
- You need to install an ACM on your machine.
- You don't have msacm32.dll in your path
- Your ACM version is not 3.5 or higher

(the system.reg file mentions msacm32.dll in
[\\Software\\Microsoft\\AudioCompressionManager\\DriverCache\\msacm32.dll], but
there is no such file to be found under ~/.wine

Note 2: the demo is no longer available from the forementioned URL, because it
seems Parallax Online no longer has a website. It is available from

http://download.descent-network.com/shareware1/freespace1/playable/fsdemo10.exe

instead, and if that site goes down as well, it's available through me (just
send me an e-mail)


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