wine users - Aug 2009 - No Runes of Magic with Wine 1.1.27

Hello,

I just upgraded to the latest Wine Version 1.1.27. Unfortunately Runes of Magic
won't start at all. I made a fresh installation, the startscreen (the one
where you download patches) pops up and downloads the latest patches. When I
click on the start button  the window closes and nothing else happens. Starting
the game again won't even bring up the start screen anymore. Only an entry
in my taskbar saying that runes of magic ist starting. But nothing happens and
it closes after a few seconds.
(Someone in the german archlinux forum mentioned that Wine currently has some
problems with the latest version of Gecko...could that be the reason?)

Another thing is that Runes of Magic has some problems with a 64bit kernel.
I've been switching between the 32bit and the 64bit Version of archlinux a
couple of times . While in the 32bit Version of arch the game was playable with
previous versions of Wine (like 1.1.22), it could only be started once under
64bit. I've tried it a few times. I made a fresh installation of Runes of
Magic and was able to start the game. But after rebooting my computer the game
wouldn't start again.

Last thing concerns the low framerate. I've tried Runes of Magic under
Windows Vista and it ran very smoothly. But with archlinux and Wine the game had
a much, much lower framerate. Especially in or near cities the game was pretty
much unplayable because I only had 2-3 fps.

Don't get me wrong guys, I think you're doing an awesome job in making
it possible to run Windows games in linux. And I'm really looking forward to
see these things fixed in future releases of Wine.
(and maybe someone could help me to turn the problems I've mentioned into a
bugreport)

Greets
A

Looks like it's due to a client update, not Wine.

I'm not sure if winetricks has an installer for the right version, or where
else you would get it though.  Just another great MS way of making sure CLR apps
are dependent on Windows, I suppose:

evil at mars:~/Public/win/games/Runes of Magic$ wine Runes\ of\ Magic.exe
fixme:actctx:parse_assembly_elem wrong version for assembly manifest:
8.0.50608.0 / 8.0.50727.762
fixme:actctx:parse_manifest_buffer failed to parse manifest
L"W:\\games\\Runes of
Magic\\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest"
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0)
fixme:actctx:parse_assembly_elem wrong version for assembly manifest:
8.0.50608.0 / 8.0.50727.762
fixme:actctx:parse_manifest_buffer failed to parse manifest
L"W:\\games\\Runes of
Magic\\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest"
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0)
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by
L"W:\\games\\Runes of Magic\\xerces-c_2_8.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library xerces-c_2_8.dll (which is needed by
L"W:\\games\\Runes of Magic\\Client.exe") not found
evil at mars:~/Public/win/games/Runes of Magic$ err:module:LdrInitializeThunk
Main exe initialization for L"W:\\games\\Runes of Magic\\Client.exe"
failed, status c0000135