Wine and game The Realm

[cacook at freedom.net]

I take it you are not running Wine internal "dll's"?

If not, I think you were closest when you got the empty dialogbox.  I got this exact symptom when trying to install Netscape as a test.

Others may have better ideas, but I suggest re-running wineconfig, and installing all servicepacks on whatever Winders you are using & running Regclean.  This fixed my problem.  Note: Win2k is not a good match for Wine.
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C.

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Kevin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. Problem description,
> partial log, and config follow.
>
> TIA Kevin
>
> Trying to run a game called The Realm (which used
> to work fine before they updated the graphics to
> 16 bit
> My normal X is at 16-bit. I use Mandrake 7.1, kernel 2.4.3,
> XFree86 4.0.2, sawmill, KDE 1.1.2 and codeweavers preview 3.
> When starting the game I get a winedesktop window
>  - black and empty, then a second
> window titled wine desktop <2> black with a
> black dialog box with no writing and only an
> OK button. This dialog box doesn't have focus
> and I can't give it focus my clicking. etc.
>
> However if I startx with :
>
> startx -- -fbbpp 8
> and then lauch the game from a terminal with:
> wine wlaunch.exe
> (by the way, wlaunch.exe checks for updates, then launches sciw.exe and I think
> thats why I get the two windows)
> in game directory
>
> a blank winedesktop window opens, then a second
> winedesktop <2> window with a dialog box inside labeled:
>
> Unsupported Color Depth
>
> and the dialog: (with text very much like windows
> text)
>
> Your desktop is currently set to support less
> than 16 bit color. The Realm Online requires
> that your desktop support at least 16 bit color.
> Would you like to change your desktop
> settings and continue playing?
>
> Choices are Yes and No. Choosing no, exits the game.
> Choosing yes yields a new dialog box labeled:
>
> Success
>
> and the dialog:
>
> Your desktop has been reconfigured. Click
> OK to continue playing.
> Clicking OK yields a new dialog box labeled:
>
> pnpdrvr.drv
>
> and the dialog
>
> Your current display driver is not supported by
> this game. We require a driver which can
> display at least 16-bit colors. You can install
> a different driver by selecting the appropriate
> options from Windows Setup
> Choice is OK button
> Clicking OK exits the game.
>
> fixme:module:CreateProcessA (sciw.exe,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
> fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
> fixme:win32:SetCriticalSectionSpinCount critsection=0x7ff063b8: spincount=1000 not supported
> fixme:win32:SetCriticalSectionSpinCount critsection=0x7ff063d8: spincount=1000 not supported
> fixme:font:AddFontResourceA ("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\reale___.ttf"): stub! Read the Wine User Guide on how to install this font manually.
> fixme:system:ChangeDisplaySettingsA (0x568780,0x00000004), stub
>         flags=FULLSCREEN,
> fixme:system:ChangeDisplaySettingsA    bpp=16
> fixme:system:ChangeDisplaySettingsA    width=800
> fixme:system:ChangeDisplaySettingsA    height=600
> fixme:system:ChangeDisplaySettingsA  (Putting X in this mode beforehand might help)
>
> at 16 bit I get the same fixme's but the lines for
> bpp = , width =, and height =  are not there.
> I've looked for the documentation for adding the font manually
> to no avail, but don't think this is the problem just yet. (and read a message
> from around January that the guide was there yet)
>
> I've also asking the games techs if I can disable the check
> for screen depth. No answer yet, and I'm sure to get the
> "it's not supported under Linux" answer :-)
>
> I've tried setting the Screen Depth = 16 in the
> /home/user/.wine/config to no avail. Actually, when I did
> that I couldn't read the dialogs when starting in 8 bit either.
>
> My config at the moment is fairly generic. I recreated it
> and think most stuff is at the delaults.
>
> WINE REGISTRY Version 2
> ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
>
> ;;
> ;; MS-DOS drives configuration
> ;;
> ;; Each section has the following format:
> ;; [Drive X]
> ;; Path=xxx       (Unix path for drive root)
> ;; Type=xxx       (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
> ;; Label=xxx      (drive label, at most 11 characters)
> ;; Serial=xxx     (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
> ;; Filesystem=xxx (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
> ;;   This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
> ;;   directory structure.
> ;;   Recommended:
> ;;   - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
> ;;   - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
> ;;   DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
> ;; Device=/dev/xx (only if you want to allow raw device access)
> ;;
>
> [Drive A]
> "Type" = "floppy"
> "Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
> "Label" = "/mnt/floppy"
> "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
>
> [Drive C]
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Path" = "/mnt/win_c"
> "Label" = "/mnt/win_c"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive D]
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Path" = "/mnt/win_d"
> "Label" = "/mnt/win_d"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive E]
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Path" = "/mnt/win_e"
> "Label" = "/mnt/win_e"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive F]
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Path" = "/mnt/win_f"
> "Label" = "/mnt/win_f"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive M]
> "Type" = "cdrom"
> "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "Label" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "FS" = "win95"
> "Device" = "/dev/hdd"
>
> [Drive X]
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Path" = "/tmp"
> "Label" = "Tmp Drive"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive Y]
> "Type" = "network"
> "Path" = "${HOME}"
> "Label" = "Home"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [Drive Z]
> "Type" = "network"
> "Path" = "/"
> "Label" = "Root"
> "FS" = "win95"
>
> [wine]
> "Windows" = "C:\\windows"
> "System" = "C:\\windows\\system"
> "Path" = "C:\\windows;C:\\windows\\system;X:\\;Y:\\"
> "Temp" = "X:\\"
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
> ; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
> ; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
> ; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
> ;ShowDirSymlinks=1
> "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
>
> [DllDefaults]
> "DefaultLoadOrder" = "native, builtin, so"
>
> [DllOverrides]
> "commdlg" = "builtin, native"
> "comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
> "ver" = "builtin, native"
> "version" = "builtin, native"
> "shell" = "builtin, native"
> "shell32" = "builtin, native"
> "lzexpand" = "builtin, native"
> "lz32" = "builtin, native"
> "comctl32" = "builtin, native"
> "commctrl" = "builtin, native"
> "wsock32" = "builtin"
> "winsock" = "builtin"
> "advapi32" = "builtin, native"
> "crtdll" = "builtin, native"
> "mpr" = "builtin, native"
> "winspool.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "ddraw" = "builtin, native"
> "dinput" = "builtin, native"
> "dsound" = "builtin, native"
> "mmsystem" = "builtin"
> "winmm" = "builtin"
> "msvideo" = "builtin, native"
> "msvfw32" = "builtin, native"
> "mcicda.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "mciseq.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "mciwave.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
> "mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
> "msacm.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "midimap.drv" = "builtin, native"
> "wnaspi32" = "builtin"
> "icmp" = "builtin"
> "imm" = "builtin, native"
> "imm32" = "builtin, native"
>
> [x11drv]
> ; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
> "AllocSystemColors" = "100"
> ; Use a private color map
> "PrivateColorMap" = "N"
> ; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
> "PerfectGraphics" = "N"
> ; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
> ;;ScreenDepth = 16
> ; Name of X11 display to use
> ;;Display = :0.0
> ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
> "Managed" = "N"
> ; Run Wine windows in desktop. Contains "N" or something like "800x600".
> "Desktop" = "800x600"
> ; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
> "UseDGA" = "Y"
> ; Use XShm extension if present
> "UseXShm" = "Y"
> ; Enable DirectX mouse grab
> "DXGrab" = "N"
> ; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
> ; (useful to play OpenGL games)
> "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
> ; Code page used for captions in managed mode
> ; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
> "TextCP" = "0"
> ; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
> ; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
> ;; XVideoPort = 43
>
> [fonts]
> ;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
> "Resolution" = "96"
> "Default" = "-adobe-times-"
>
> [serialports]
> "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
> "Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
> "Com3" = "/dev/modem,38400"
> "Com4" = "/dev/modem"
>
> [parallelports]
> "Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
>
> [spooler]
> "LPT1:" = "|lpr"
> "LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
> "LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
>
> [ports]
> ;read=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
> ;write=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
>
> [spy]
> "Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"
>
> [registry]
> ; Paths must be given in /dir/dir/file.reg format.
> ; Wine will not understand dos file names here...
>
> ;These are all booleans.  Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
> ;Defaults are read all, write to Home
> ; Global registries (stored in /etc)
> "LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
> "LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
> "LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; TRY to write all changes to home registries
> "WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
> ; PeriodicSave=600
> ; Save only modified keys
> "SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
>
> [Tweak.Layout]
> ;; WineLook=xxx  (supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98')
> "WineLook" = "Win98"
>
> [Console]
> ;Drivers=tty
> ;XtermProg=nxterm
> ;InitialRows=25
> ;InitialColumns=80
> ;TerminalType=nxterm
>
> [Clipboard]
> "ClearAllSelections" = "0"
> "PersistentSelection" = "1"
>
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