[Bug 44931] Macromedia Director Player 5.0/6.0 based games fail to run: " This program requires at least 3MB of free virtual memory to run" (Nine: The last Resort)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44931

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|This program requires at    |Macromedia Director Player
                   |least 3MB of free virtual   |5.0/6.0 based games fail to
                   |memory to run in "Nine: The |run: "This program requires
                   |last Resort" game           |at least 3MB of free
                   |                            |virtual memory to run"
                   |                            |(Nine: The last Resort)
                 CC|                            |focht at gmx.net

--- Comment #1 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

that's because Macromedia Director 5.0/6.0 created games are incompatible with
modern Windows versions.
It's a known issue and you would get the same error with MS Windows.

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=303

>From your log file:

--- snip ---
...
0009:Call KERNEL32.GlobalMemoryStatus(0033f82c) ret=0046a04b
0009:Ret  KERNEL32.GlobalMemoryStatus() retval=00000000 ret=0046a04b
0009:Call user32.LoadStringA(00400000,00000880,0033f89c,00000080) ret=0046a07b
0009:Ret  user32.LoadStringA() retval=00000013 ret=0046a07b
0009:Call user32.LoadStringA(00400000,0000000f,0033f91c,00000080) ret=0046a092
0009:Ret  user32.LoadStringA() retval=00000042 ret=0046a092
0009:Call user32.MessageBoxA(00000000,0033f99c "This program requires at least
3MB of free virtual memory to run.",0033f89c "Director Player 5.0",00000000)
ret=0046a0cb
...
--- snip ---

You could run the app as follows to show the reported values for your system.

--- snip ---
$ WINEDEBUG=+globalmem wine ./foobar ...
--- snip ---

The app probably wants something well below 2GB.

You could try to patch your app as described on this website:

https://www.sacah.net/2008/01/how-to-edit-director-player-60-to-stop.html ("Fix
'*mb of free virtual memory' on 'Director Player 6.0' and 'Director Player 5.0'
programs on XP/Vista")

Regards

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