wine users - Oct 2008 - NeverHood won't run [Unable to initialize DirectDraw]

I just installed the old game The Neverhood into WINE, and it won't run. On
start up it pops up the following dialogue boxes:

DDERR_UNSUPPORTED

and

Unable to initialize DirectDraw.

I have it set to run in Windows 98 (like the how-to from the AppDB), and
I've tried it with both Vertex Shader and pixel shader on and off. I
installed the DirectX that came with it.

I keep getting the same error. Has anyone else played this game, or at least
gotten around this error with a different app? Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Skankin' Rat Fink
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I just installed the old game The Neverhood into WINE, and it won't
run. On start up it pops up the following dialogue boxes:
>
> DDERR_UNSUPPORTED
>
> and
>
> Unable to initialize DirectDraw.
>
> I have it set to run in Windows 98 (like the how-to from the AppDB), and
I've tried it with both Vertex Shader and pixel shader on and off. I
installed the DirectX that came with it.
>
> I keep getting the same error. Has anyone else played this game, or at
least gotten around this error with a different app? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
Terminal output would help.

-- 
-Austin

I actually figured it out myself from the terminal output .... it was trying to
run in 1280x1024, but running it in an 800x600 desktop fixed it. Thanks for the
tip.