wine users - Sep 2009 - Trackmania NF 2.11.11 fails to start in Wine 1.1.28

I'm a new user of Ubuntu 9.04 and have installed Wine 1.1.28.  Have not been
able to get Trackmania Nations Forever 2.11.11 to start despite the AppDB
indicating it should be fine.

Installer worked fine, but program crashes on startup with an error message
saying "Application has encountered a serious error and needs to
close".   Dump file indicates an unhandled exception.  First few lines are
at end of post.

Based on comments on AppDB tried copying the d3dx9_30.dll from Windows, but
didn't know where to put it - most logical place seemed in with the
Trackmania dlls end exe.  Didn't make any difference.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dunc  

[Win32] CmdLine="C:\Program Files\TmNationsForever\TmForever.exe"

TmForever



[Sys] Os = Microsoft Windows 3.1(Service Pack 3)

[Sys] Cpu = x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1

[Sys] Cpu = 1 195MHz (bench)

[Sys] Physical memory = 448 Mb

[Sys] Windows GDI resolution = 0x0x0b

[Sys] ExeChecksum = 0x1FF3221A

Win32 Exception : Unknown exception code: -2147483391

	=>Occured at address 0xB7F3A430

	eax=0x00000000   ebx=0x00001119   ecx=0x00001119   edx=0x00000006

	edi=0xB7DB3FF4   esi=0xB7D95572   ebp=0x0033EC90   esp=0x0033EC78  
eip=0xB7F3A430

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 05:09, duncdum<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Based on comments on AppDB tried copying the d3dx9_30.dll from Windows, but
didn't know where to put it - most logical place seemed in with the
Trackmania dlls end exe. ?Didn't make any difference.
>
Did you set an override for it in winecfg?

> [Sys] Os = Microsoft Windows 3.1(Service Pack 3)
>
What is your Wine's windows version set to?

If you have any other applications that need weird Wine settings, you
should install TM in its own wineprefix.
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/WINEPREFIX

The output that you posted does seem to be console output. Can you
please post console output? (See FAQ in wiki for instructions)

What graphics card do you have?

Gert van den Berg wrote:
> 
> > Based on comments on AppDB tried copying the d3dx9_30.dll from
Windows, but didn't know where to put it - most logical place seemed in with
the Trackmania dlls end exe. Didn't make any difference.
> > 
> Did you set an override for it in winecfg?
No need, those dlls have default load order as native,builtin already.

duncdum, copy those dlls into c:\windows\system32
(~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32). What video card and driver do you have?
Post complete terminal output of running the program
(http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).

Many thanks for the input.  

Here are the requested pieces of info and results of trying the various
suggestions:

Wine's Windows version is set to XP.

Copying the version of d3dx9_30.dll from Windows to
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
had no effect.  (There was already a file of that name there, which I renamed
before the copy.)  I also tried copying d3dx9_36.dll to the same directory, but
similarly without effect.

Running in terminal was more helpful and resulted in the following output:
fixme:d3d_caps:wined3d_guess_vendor Received unrecognized GL_VENDOR "VIA
Technology". Returning VENDOR_WINE.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ec40,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d_caps:wined3d_guess_vendor Received unrecognized GL_VENDOR "VIA
Technology". Returning VENDOR_WINE.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ed04,0x00000000), stub!
m Files\TmNationsForever\TmForeverLauncher.exe: main/renderbuffer.c:2153:
_mesa_reference_renderbuffer: Assertion `oldRb->Magic == 0xaabbccdd'
failed.
wine: Assertion failed at address 0xb8025430 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

duncdum wrote:
> Graphics card is reported as:
> VIA Technologies Inc, KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] Rev01.
And you want to do what with ... THAT? That .. thing has no real 3D
acceleration. Nor a good drivers that really work.

Get yourself a real video card from nVidia.

Hmmm, if you reckon that's old, you should see the computer I'm trying
to run it on!!!!  I suspect if I put a fancy new video card in it the whole
thing will have a hernia and freeze up, or maybe burst into flames.

Trackmania works under Windows, so we might just have to stick with that until
the inevitable computer upgrade.

Thanks for your input,

Dunc