[Wine] Re: Virtual Pool Hall installation help needed - update

[Fretzel]

Fretzel wrote:
> Darren Wilkinson wrote:
>> Fretzel wrote:
>>> Here is the location to download this game.
>>> http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/BGAudio/VPHDownload.htm
>>>
>>> Problem is the included vph.reg file which modifies the registry to 
>>> disable CD check on a real Windows installation will not work on 
>>> Wine's fake drive_c Windows installation.
>>>
>>> I know this works in real Windows because I have tried it myself.
>>>
>>> If anyone can find a way to make this work I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>> The easiest thing would probably be to open the vph.reg file in 
>> openoffice or something similar and use wines own regedit to put them 
>> in by hand.
>>
>> Just remember not to type in the quotation marks.
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately getting this info into the registry 
> is not where the problem lies. There is something odd about the way the 
> game expects hard drive C: and Windows to be to be physically located in 
> the machine... and Wine's fake drive_c drive just doesn't work.
> I have only been able to get this game and its registry hack to work on 
> computers with Windows installed on the boot drive. I have not been able 
> to get it to work if anything about the location of Windows is 
> changed... e.g. I have tried on computers where the Windows OS and C: 
> drive is installed on a different physical drive to the boot drive. And 
> also on an intel iMac with a bootcamp Windows installation. Neither of 
> these situations work. It will only work with Windows installed to a 
> single physical drive C:.
> I was hoping someone would be able to work out why the game behaves this 
> way and maybe suggest a different registry key modification which would 
> get around this problem and allow the game to run without CD check.


Thanks to help from Killertux_ in IRC. We have discovered that the game 
will get past the CD missing error if the game directory and contents is 
copied to E: drive (drive_e directory). But now the game is crashing 
with some D3D and X11 display errors.
Here is what I get in terminal from "wine VPhall.exe"

fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x184130) : stub, 
simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel 
(0x172470)->(0x20024,00000013)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! 
(NoRes)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests 
more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please 
configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if 
possible
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! 
(NoRes)
err:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetRenderState Multisample antialiasing not 
supported by gl
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! 
(NoRes)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests 
more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please 
configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if 
possible
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! 
(NoRes)
err:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetRenderState Multisample antialiasing not 
supported by gl
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x172470)->((nil),00000008)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DStateBlockImpl_Release Releasing primary stateblock

Then the game just exits and returns me to the terminal window. What do 
I do now?