wine users - Feb 2010 - Game- Fishdom H20 video problem

My wife played this game -Fishdom H20- at her sister's and was caught up in
it. It can be downloaded through Yahoo! Games.

We are trying to run it on 32 bit Ubuntu Karmic- newest wine version from Wine
repo- on our laptop with Intel Centrino Duo, nvidia GE Force GO 7400 256 mb with
newest driver from ppa.

The problem-- the game loads and plays with no problem, but its nature is to
find objects which then allows you to place animated objects on the
screen-"fill up the aquarium".

====These objects should be in a variety of colors, but under wine they only
show up as bluish/grey. They do move about as they should.
====
I have tried various wine configurations, and it has always been the same
result.

Currently, I have wine configured with dotnet 20, ie6, & directx (dll's
only) from winetricks. I have tried with full directx install as well. This
configuration allows the program to run from its "launcher" exe and be
registered, as well as be run from its main exe.

It doesn't matter how it is started, from launcher or main, the screen
object coloring remains the same.

I have been searching for several days for possible configuration changes  and
settled on the above so far, and am hoping someone might be able to offer some
other suggestions.

The game will run via its main exe under default wine- the above config only
allows you to run it via the launcher and register it- there are no other
apparent changes.

Fred
wine newbie

I just ran a debug +warn and got the following:

fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f6fc,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to
SetDepthStencilSurface

There were also a number of sound "fixme" entries but sound is O.K.

I had to run the debug against the main exe file, the "loader" exe
with debug +warn on, only brings up a black screen.

The "fixme" errors mean nothing to me, but might help someone to
understand the problem.

Thanks,

Fred

frwagner wrote:
> I just ran a debug +warn and got the following:
> 
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f6fc,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support
to SetDepthStencilSurface
Those are perfectly normal. I get these all the time.
> The "fixme" errors mean nothing to me, but might help someone to
understand the problem.
Actually, those "fixme"s are meaningless, period. Like I said, they
happen to me all the time. The real problem lies elsewhere.

Try going a step above +warn and turning on +trace. Then post the
(really long) log somewhere like pastebin.