Dinput - Keyb Bug

[Kristoffer Ericson]

Greetings,

I've been working with this problem for about 2 weeks now (play alot of 
tribes) and it's finally working with keyboard. I tried dinput about a week 
ago but couldn't make it work but as you said i should have used directx5 or 
6 instead.

Keyboard works fine but i still have other issues, to make the game fully 
functional.

Dsound komplains somewhat and the sound sounds pitched (plays to fast, thus 
giving the smurf syndrom), i tried to use -dll dsound.dll but it says that 
it can't find the file. I know i've done right so i checked around on 
irc.openprojects.net and they said that not all -dll's can be used natively, 
is this right?

Also i fail to get opengl to work, i simply can't select it in game. Any 
ideas? I've compiled with --enable-opengl and i've run a testprogram using 
opengl which works fine.

Tribes running in fullscreen mode it feels slow and strange, but running it 
in window mode makes it feel fast and stable. Why?

i tried to use native ddraw.dll but then the game won't even start, there's 
just a black screen.

Thank you for all your support, considering i've been running around looking 
at homepages and chatting on irc when you all solved my problem within 1 
day, THANKS(!).

Other than that Tribes works fine.


>From: Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com>
>To: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer_e1 at hotmail.com>, wine-devel at winehq.com
>Subject: Re: Dinput - Keyb Bug
>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:11:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
>You need to use the windows dinput.dll as ours is (still) not up to spec. I 
>used to play this game
>all the time under linux till tribes2. I dont know if this will work with 
>the directx 8.1 but if
>you can find a dinput.dll from dx5 or 6 it should work.
>
>I will add this information to the wine application database if its not 
>already there and if
>someone working on directx can figure out what is going on that would rock 
>long term.
>
>Thanks
>Steven
>
>
>--- Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer_e1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get StarSiege Tribes (1) to work, and from what i gather 
>is it
> > suffering from a quite common wine-gaming-problem (both wine & winex).
> >
> > The game starts smoothly enough but keyboard is dead. When i press any 
>key
> > it will instantly drop out and quit. No error message or breaks.
> > Considering the keyboard makes you move it basicly leaves you jumping up 
>and
> > down shooting at everything that comes..=) Other than the keyboard error
> > tribes runs fine.
> >
> > I daily run updates from winex & wine but been working at this problem 
>for
> > about 2 weeks.
> >
> > I've read all the info i could find on the subject and from what i can
> > gather is that tribes used to work on older wine. So can anyone give me 
>some
> > futher info about where i could find older wine-archives or if the 
>dinput (i
> > guess the problem is due to dinput) problem is about to be solved´, 
>tweaks,
> > patches, ideas..
> >
> > With respect Ken
> >
> >
> >
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