Wine and Baldur's Gate

[J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)]

Try the latest cvs with the OSS sound patch posted on wine-devel by eric
pouech about a dozen messages ago. Use the second version of the patch,
not the first :)

That should help the sound problems at least...

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Ian D . Stewart wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:20:54 -0500
> From: Ian D . Stewart <idstewart at compuvative.com>
> To: wine-users at winehq.com
> Cc: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Wine and Baldur's Gate
>
> Well,
>
> Now that I've made it through the actual install, I figured I'ld take
> Baldur's Gate for a spin.  The main screeen, where you select to play the
> game, change the configuration, etc, comes up fine.  There's a slight pause
> after clicking 'Play' while BGMain.exe starts and X is set yo 640x480 (I'm
> guessing this has something to do with DETACH_PROCESS?), but that's no
> biggy.
>
> The opening credits and movie play just fine.  I'm able to create the main
> character without any noticeable problems.  The first 'problem' I ran into
> was at the opening of the 'Prologue' chapter.  Under windows, a narrator's
> voice reads the opening text as it scrolls across the screen.  Under wine,
> the text is scrolling, but sans naration.  A bit annoying, but no biggy.
>
> The real fun starts when the game actually begins.  First off, the sound,
> when there is any, cuts out quite a bit, with no apparent rhyme nor reason.
>  Secondly, the left and bottom panels are covered by the main section.  You
> have to click on the various buttons to make them display.
>
> The third 'error' appears to be related to X's virtual desktop.  Moving the
> cursor to the left or bottom side of the screen moves the 'viewport' away
> from the window, instead of scrolling the view in the Baldur's Gate window.
>
> After shutting down Baldur's Gate, I noticed a whole slew of error messages
> in the xterm window I launched it from.  Here are a few examples:
>
> 	fixme:module:CreateProcessA (BGMain.exe,...): DETACHED_PROCESS
> ignored
> 	fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel
> (0x403f8034,00020021,3):stub
> 	fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_QueryInterface Unknown GUID
> {31efac30-515c-11d0-a9aa-00aa0061be93}
> 	fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_CreateSurface App didn't request a
> valid surface type - assuming offscreenplain
> 	err:ddraw:Main_DirectDrawSurface_Lock  Negative values in LPRECT
> !!!
> 	fixme:ddraw:DIB_DirectDrawSurface_Blt   Unsupported flags:
> DDBLT_DDFX
>
> Any help in getting any of these issues resolved would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
>
> Thanx,
> Ian
>
>
>