[Wine] Successfully Installed Sea Dogs v1 Game - Need Help with DDRAW error.

[Nick Law]

Shelton D'Cruz wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I have just started dabbling into the world of WINE.  I was quite excited to 
> have one of my favourite games installed (Sea Dogs).
>
> Before I tell you about the problem, let me tell you my setup.
>
> I am using Gentoo Linux on x86 and my wine version is 0.9.8.  I installed WINE 
> using "emerge wine"
>
> I have XOrg v7 installed.
>
> My NVIDIA driver version is 8762.
>
> Direct Rendering is YES.
>
> OK - the problem with SeaDogs is that when I am in the game and on the "world 
> map view", whenever I encounter another ship what usually happens is that a 
> dialog box appears that asks me if I want to either "engage" or "continue 
> sailing".  As soon as this happens, the game screen goes black. 
>
> Whilst the game is running and before this "encounter" the following messages 
> are displayed on screen:
> err:ddraw:set_render_state Unhandled texture min 6 !
> err:ddraw:set_render_state Unhandled texture mag 6 !     <------------ long 
> list of these
>
> and at times:
> err:ddraw:create_dib CreateDIBSection failed!
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_CreateSurface failed surface creation with code 
> 0x80070057
>
> In winecfg, the game is set to play under Window$98 and I only have sound on 
> and music disabled.
>
> Anyone else seen this issue?  
>
> Thanks for your replies.
> Shelton.
>
>
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I would start by using the latest version of wine 0.9.18 and see if that 
works, Direct3D has had many fixes since 0.9.8, and there is still more 
fixes before Direct3D is close to being finished.