I've been having a problem recently with Simpsons Hit & Run regarding
the sound. I installed the game just fine, but had major sound distortions that
made it impossible to play with sound. After checking AppDB, another user
reported the same problem and I tried changing the dsound library to native
(windows). I imported the dsound.dll file from my Windows XP drive into my fake
windows/system32 under WINE and in my programs root directory.
After running the game, I got two odd errors in separate message boxes, one
after another:
Code:
ASSERT FAILED : [DirectSound8 couldn't be created.]
Line : [0] File: [win32 hal]
{Abort} {Retry} {Ignore}
I pressed the Ignore button and up came another message (pressing retry did the
same thing, abort just canceled:
Code:
ASSERT FAILED : [IDirectSound8::Initialize() failed, no sound card?]
Line : [0] File: [win32 hal]
{Abort} {Retry} {Ignore}
As before I pressed Ignore but then the messages stopped and the game didn't
load. I tried messing around with the audio setting in "winecfg" but
nothing made a difference. Only the builtin wine dsound would work with the game
but that obviously causes the distortion to happen.
Does anyone know of a way to make the native dll work or know another work
around for the distortion? I've searched all over and haven't found a
specific problem such as mine. Thanks for any help.