DirectDraw Issues continue

[Joseph Garvin]

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote:
> No one if forcing you to run the latest Wine version.  Wine is beta software, 
> so there is not guarantee that the newest version is "best", although it 
> usually is.  If you had bothered to take a look in the AppDB, you could have 
> read that e.g. Settlers IV has a Gold rating (i.e. runs perfectly).
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I think you misread what he said. He ran Settlers IV himself and it
fails to run, regardless of what the AppDB says (which probably reflects
an older wine version).
> As for World of Warcraft, it does not even run with a vanilla Wine, but 
> requires special patches.
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> Grave regards,
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> Alexander N. Sørnes
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> Torsdag 13 juli 2006 23:15, skrev Martin Owens:
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>> OK I'm quite upset now, when I compiled the cvs version of wine on my
>> own computer and Pharaoh started working again I thought great, fixed!
>> but oh no one of the comunity computers I administer is running ubuntu
>> same as me but their getting the package from the wine apt repository.
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>> so I was happy to 0.9.17 was available because I thought it would
>> allow this game to work again, imagen my suprise when I find it still
>> doesn't work. and even better when I try to run it from the command
>> like it segfaults.
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>> I'll provide logs and things if asked.
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>>  * Pharaoh - used to work back in 0.9.15 and still does in cvs 2006-07-02
>>  * C&C Generals - Fails to run
>>  * Discworld Noir - Fails to install
>>  * Imperialism II - Graphical tiles issue (DDRAW)
>>  * Industry Giant II - Fails to run
>>  * Star trek SFC3 - Fails to run
>>  * Tropico - Fails to run
>>  * CSI - Fails to install
>>  * Fugawi - Fails to display maps
>>  * Settlers IV - Fails to run
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>> This isn't a list of failures, this is a list of every program I have
>> tried in the last month with wine, not _one_ works. this is an
>> incredibly sad situation and I know the interfaces are difficult but
>> could you concentrate on getting more thing working than just making
>> sure World of WarCraft has a nice fps.
>>
>> Grave Regards, Martin Owens
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