wine users - Apr 2009 - Daz Studio 2.3.x on Jaunty/Wine - partially works, need help

I have Wine 1.0.1 as distributed with Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (beta). I have an
ATI Radeon Mobility X300 card on a Dell Latitude D610. I am trying to run Daz
Studio, a free 3d graphics program (similar in functionality to Poser) available
for download at http://daz3d.com . This software was running on this hardware
under Windows XP SP2 and SP3 before I got tired of dealing with malware and
installed Ubuntu instead.

Users on the Daz forums have noted that in general Daz Studio runs under Wine
with an nVidia card, but not so well with an ATI card. I was hoping that the new
ATI drivers recently made available would help with that. I have been partially
successful, and I am describing my efforts here in the hopes that they will help
others, and also hoping that someone here will have some suggestions to make
this a completely successful installation.

I have extensive background with Solaris and linux in general, but not so much
with Wine. I am fairly proficient at Windows system administration and
debugging. This week I've tried several different approaches, including
fglrx proprietary drivers, upgrading to Wine 1.1.19 through the WineHQ
repository, and a variety of different dll installations using winetricks. What
I describe below is the process that has given me the best results so far. (A
newer installation of Wine, for example, seemed to cause Daz Studio not to see
any of the necessary DLLs, even though they were installed, though I'm not
entirely sure that was the cause of that problem.)

I configured the new open-source ATI drivers using these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver According to the tests described
on that page, I should now have 3D graphics acceleration.

I am able to run Blender, add a few objects to a scene, move them around, and
render. (That's about the limit of my Blender ability under any OS.) This
seems like a reasonable practical test of 3D graphics support.

Daz Studio depends on a few Windows components not included in a typical Wine
install. These can be added with winetricks. Dan Kegel made some helpful
suggestions in the AppDB Wine notes for Daz Studio 2.3.3.99 beta, but I found
with my installation I needed to modify these suggestions slightly. I used
winetricks to install the following:

$ winetricks vcrun6 corefonts

I recommend that any other users wanting to run Daz Studio DO NOT install wsh56
(MS Windows Scripting Host 5.6). You will get an error near the end of the
install without the scripting component, but if you have it the Daz Studio
install will never complete correctly. (The installer will hang at
"Unpacking C:\windows\system32\dzwrapper.dll" if you have previously
installed MS Windows Scripting Host, and the only way I found to fix this was to
scrub my Wine installation and start over.) Just click "Ignore" when
you get the error. The installation will then complete normally.

It did not matter where I ran the installer from; my results were the same. In
my most recent installation, I ran it from the command line in ~/Desktop.

I got the following errors during install:


Code:
fixme:comm:set_queue_size insize 4096 outsize 4096 unimplemented stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7deb0000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class
SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x2002e, 0x157140): stub
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003a,0x00000000,0,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,0,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,13,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,25,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,38,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,51,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,64,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,76,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,89,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,102,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,115,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,127,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,140,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,153,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,166,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,178,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,191,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,204,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,217,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,229,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,242,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1003c,0x00000000,255,2): stub!
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP000.TMP\\" 00000000
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"elizabeth" (nil) 0x33f87c
(nil) 0x33f880 0x33f874 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"elizabeth" 0x132b70 0x33f87c
0x132b00 0x33f880 0x33f874 - stub
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action
L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveExistingProducts -> 1 ignored
L"Upgrade" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub MsiUnpublishAssemblies -> 10 ignored
L"MsiAssembly" table values
err:msi:ITERATE_PublishAssembly Component not set for install, not publishing
assembly
(repeats 10 times)
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7dc90000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class
SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7dc90000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7deb0000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented




However, as I said, the installation does seem to complete, so I'm not too
worried about these errors-- I'm just including them here in case they are
helpful in debugging the main problem.

When I run Daz Studio under Wine in a terminal window, I get some errors, but
the program does run. The primary functionality problem is that the main pane,
where the scene can normally be previewed and edited, does not refresh
correctly. It shows white at first (rather than displaying the grid
"floor" Daz Studio usually displays), and if any other window overlaps
that area, the image stays there until replaced by some other overlapping
window. However, objects can be loaded and configured (though not previewed),
rendering does work (and the results are visible in the main panel), and the
render can be saved. The errors that appear in the terminal are:


Code:

fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x10020, 0x13cbc8): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c}
could be created for context 0x17
err:module:import_dll Library S3Dmouse.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\Program Files\\Daz\\Studio\\plugins\\dzsandio.3dm") not found
err:wgl:internal_SetPixelFormat Invalid iPixelFormat: 47213472
err:wgl:internal_SetPixelFormat Invalid iPixelFormat: 47227736
err:wgl:internal_SetPixelFormat Invalid iPixelFormat: 47237120
err:wgl:internal_SetPixelFormat Invalid iPixelFormat: 47247272
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1016a,0x00000000,127,2): stub!
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
(repeats 8 times)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
(repeats 20 times)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
fixme:advapi:GetEffectiveRightsFromAclW 0x215034 0x3a29db1c 0x142e12c - stub
fixme:advapi:GetEffectiveRightsFromAclW 0x2d9012c 0x3a29db1c 0x142e12c - stub
fixme:advapi:GetEffectiveRightsFromAclW 0x2d904e4 0x3a29db1c 0x142e12c - stub
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
(repeats 22 times)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
(repeats 7 times)
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
(repeats lots and lots of times)
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
(repeats 15 times)
3DL INFO: $DELIGHT environment variable is not set
3DL WARNING S2051: cannot find default shader 'defaultsurface'
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
(repeats....)




The 3DL INFO and 3DL warning messages appear when I first try to render.
Subsequent renders cause the 3DL warning to repeat. Other actions in Daz Studio
cause more ntdll:NtLockFRile errors with occasional ole errors.

A search on S3Dmouse.dll didn't turn up any useful information. Possibly it
would provide support for a 3D mouse I don't have anyway.

I realize that this may be a problem with the ATI card driver as much as with
Wine, but I am posting this information in several locations, as it seems to be
in interaction between Wine, the ATI card driver, the Daz Studio software, and
possibly Jaunty.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might troubleshoot this further?
I'd really rather not have to shift partitions around and reinstall Windows
on this laptop, just to run one application.

Thanks!