[Wine] Playonline needs 32-bit true color

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Elliander <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I installed playonline under WINE on Ubuntu. It installed without any problem, and when I went to load it up it even starts to open up like it would in windows. But then an error appeared:
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> Error Code = 20008027
> Can only be displayed properly in 32-bit true color. Start Playonline viewer anyway?
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> If I click no, it closes. If I click yes it actually starts up, plays music, and I can hear the sound it makes when it hovers over something I can click. But the screen is all black.
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> Now I know that 32-bit in Windows is 24-bit in Ubuntu, so I checked to make sure, and I do have 24-bit enabled in Ubuntu.
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> I don't know if the problem is just because WINE reports to the program that I am using 24-bit instead of 32-bit or if it's something more. In any case, I can't do anything blind.
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> I am aware that FFXI probably won't run perfectly if at all under WINE but I would like to at least get to the login screen so I can read my Playonline ID. My only backup of that is in the user information that I copied into that Playonline installation and at the moment I don't have access to windows so even if I won't be able to play I still need to get this to display.
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> Thanks.
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Elliander,

I've had issues in Half-Life that were similar.  Half-life said it
needed a certain bit depth, but I was certain I was running it.

The issue in my case was something with the X server.  That was on an
older distro that required changes to the xorg.conf file. I'm not sure
exactly what resolved it, but I'm pretty certain that Wine can work in
32-bit mode (24 bits of colors with 16 bit alpha/blending).

The appdb says PlayOnline does works.  Good luck.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5342&iTestingId=4857


-Tres


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