wine users - Jul 2010 - Strange crashing behavior

Hi, 

I'm trying to run a game called Star Sonata
(http://www.starsonata.com/download.html) on my iMac (Mac OS 10.5.8) using Wine
1.2-rc7.  If I run the installer first, I can choose to launch the game directly
and it runs without crashing (at least, without crashing systematically). 
However, if I quit and relaunch the game, it crashes as soon as I get to the
log-in screen.  Below I have enclosed the pertinent wine output streams.

First run (no systematic crash):
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e27c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909200416 (as fourcc:  L16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909200416) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909200449 (as fourcc: AL16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909200449) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909201952 (as fourcc:  R16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909201952) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909201985 (as fourcc: AR16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909201985) in
the format lookup table
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:wave:AudioUnit_SetVolume independent left/right volume not implemented
(1.000000, 1.000000)
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:d3d:state_patchsegments (WINED3DRS_PATCHSEGMENTS,0.000000) not yet
implemented
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic
buffer, stopping converting
(...)


Subsequent run (systematic crash):
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e27c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909200416 (as fourcc:  L16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909200416) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909200449 (as fourcc: AL16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909200449) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909201952 (as fourcc:  R16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909201952) in
the format lookup table
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 909201985 (as fourcc: AR16)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:getFormatDescEntry Can't find format unrecognized(909201985) in
the format lookup table
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:wave:AudioUnit_SetVolume independent left/right volume not implemented
(1.000000, 1.000000)
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000034 at address 0x496e66
(thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000034 in 32-bit code
(0x00496e66).
(...)
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00496e66 in star sonata (+0x96e66) (0x0032efb0)
  1 0x004c1008 in star sonata (+0xc1007) (0x009bc3c4)
  2 0x00000000 (0x00569bf0)
  3 0x004c0fa0 in star sonata (+0xc0f9f) (0x004c1210)


I have not yet tried re-installing wine, and am curious to know whether I should
consider using an earlier version.  Any suggestions would be appreciated!

anilbv wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I'm trying to run a game called Star Sonata
(http://www.starsonata.com/download.html) on my iMac (Mac OS 10.5.8) using Wine
1.2-rc7.
No on the 'earlier' version, unless suggested in our Applications
Database.

Second, please upgrade to the new release version of Wine.

Also, as a suggestion, install XQuartz instead of Apple's X11.  It is 
MUCH newer and adds a few functions that Apple thoughtlessly left out

Thank you.

James McKenzie

Thank you for your reply.  I used MacPorts to get Wine so I'm surprised that
I don't have the newest version.  I'm just reading the phrase "Wine
1.2-rc7" from the "About" section of winecfg ? is there a
difference between this and Wine 1.2?

I'm trying to install Wine 1.2 from this website, but I've run into some
problems.  Firstly, the installer warns me that it has found a wine binary
somewhere, but I don't know where this would be or how to uninstall it (I
just deleted the old wine directory).  Secondly, if I do tell the installer to
continue, it fails when checking whether 16-bit code can be built correctly,
apparently because I have Xcode 3.1 and "Xcode 3.x cannot build 16-bit code
correctly."  It tells me to use --disable-win16 if I don't need 16-bit
support, but I also don't know how the do that.

Thanks for your help so far!