wine users - Oct 2008 - [Game] Pathologic: help me create a useful bug report

Appdb entry
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8352)

I'm trying to get all my games to run under linux, but of cause a few are
giving me problems, and Pathologic is one of the few that really bothers me.

As far as I can tell, the game uses DirectX9, Windows Media format (cinematics),
and OpenAL. Of the three, the WMF dependency is the most annoying, as it in turn
requires windows media player, which makes installation something of a chore.


The commands used are

Code:

cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Buka/Pathologic/bin/Final/
wine Game.exe



The result is that the screen gamma is altered, the screen goes black, and then
the program terminates (leaving the gamma altered).

Crashlog (pastebin) (http://pastebin.com/md8a3242)

While getting the game to actually run would be wonderful, I'll be happy if
I can simply produce a sensical bug report.

System details
Debian Etch (linux 2.6.18-6-686)
Wine 1.1.4

CPU: intel Core 2 Quad (Q6600)
RAM: 4GB
Graphics: GeForce 9600 GT (Nvidia binary Drivers)

DMB wrote:
> Appdb entry
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8352)
> 
> I'm trying to get all my games to run under linux, but of cause a few
are giving me problems, and Pathologic is one of the few that really bothers me.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the game uses DirectX9, Windows Media format
(cinematics), and OpenAL. Of the three, the WMF dependency is the most annoying,
as it in turn requires windows media player, which makes installation something
of a chore.

WMP you can install using winetricks: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Some games that use OpenAL crash on Wine (with devision by 0 - an OpenAL bug) or
their sound doesn't work at all. Try downloading latest OpenAL drivers from
Creative (openal.dll & wrap_oal.dll) and replace those that came with a
game.