Hello, I'm having difficulties running WonderKing (http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/center/default.asp) on an Intel Mac version 10.5.8 using Wine 1.1.35. I was able to download and install both programs successfully, but when I run WonderKing, I'm able to get to the first screen where you can check to see if you have all the files needed to run the game (I have all of them), change from full screen to window screen, view the news, or press the start button. After pressing the start button, the game appears to be working fine, the hackShield doesn't find any problems, and then the "real" game launches. The window is white and stays white no matter how long I wait or what I try. I've changed X11 and WonderKing's preferences, tried re-installing the game, downloaded "fix-it" files from their site, restarting the computer, and everything else I could think of. I searched the appDB and it's not there, there's no anti-virus programs running to stop the game from working, and I've got no clue of what to do to fix it, if that is even possible. So can anyone help or tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
> I'm having difficulties running WonderKing (http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/center/default.asp) on an Intel Mac version 10.5.8 using Wine 1.1.35. > > I was able to download and install both programs successfully, but when I run WonderKing, I'm able to get to the first screen where you can check to see if you have all the files needed to run the game (I have all of them), change from full screen to window screen, view the news, or press the start button. > > After pressing the start button, the game appears to be working fine, the hackShield doesn't find any problems, and then the "real" game launches. The window is white and stays white no matter how long I wait or what I try. > > I've changed X11 and WonderKing's preferences, tried re-installing the game, downloaded "fix-it" files from their site, restarting the computer, and everything else I could think of. > > I searched the appDB and it's not there, there's no anti-virus programs running to stop the game from working, and I've got no clue of what to do to fix it, if that is even possible. > > So can anyone help or tell me what I'm doing wrong?Where did you get/build your Wine distro from? If you're having an issue with WineBottler or another custom Wine build, you may need to ask the provider or file a bug in their support system. As you're on Mac OS X 10.5/Leopard, you'll likely need to install Xquartz to get a decent X11 server: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki I'd recommend sticking with the latest 2.3 release for Leopard: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases What kind of video card do you have in your Mac? If it's an onboard Intel (GMA950, X3100), it may or may not have enough oomph run the game. If you have an Nvidia or ATI GPU, either should work well enough.
Thanks for the tips! But is it worth trying 2.4? How would I go about using MacPorts and what does it do? After installing Xquartz 2.3 the game now runs up to the "loading" screen before crashing on windowed mode, and gets a "CreateDevice failed" and quits on full screen. According to the WonderKing forums, the error is caused either by the game not supporting the screen resolution or the video card's drivers and/or DirectX is/are out of date or have incorrect settings. The computer's graphical card is an ATI Radeon HD 2400, which you said should be fine. I tried running it with the recommended resolution, but nothing changed. As for DirectX, I have no idea how that works with wine, but the game needs at least 9.0 with Direct3d Acceleration enabled. Thanks for any help.
Virtual desktop helped a lot! Now on full screen I can log in, move around, and attack stuff. The BGM doesn't appear to work, but the sound effects do. Windowed mode still crashes. After about 30 seconds I get a "Socket Send Error!!" Which is apparently when something is blocking or tampering with the connection between you and the server. Then, if I'm battling monsters, I get a "Disconnected from the server" pop up and the game crashes. If I'm not, I really can't do anything else. So then to play again I have to quit and then start X11, log in and then it lets me play for around 20 more seconds. To start the app, I go to the wonderking folder and double click on the "Load.exe" file, and tell it to run directly. I got Wine and WineBottler from Here (http://www.kronenberg.org/download.php?download=http://mirrors2.nolabelstudios.com/mikesmassivemess/files/WineBottlerCombo_1.1.35.dmg&filename=WineBottlerCombo_1.1.35.dmg&project=WineBottler&sponsorName=Hazelmind&sponsorURL=www.hazelmind.com/hazelstore/store/sample&sponsorBanner=http://www.hazelmind.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/bannersample.jpg) and I think I just dragged them to the applications folder after mounting the disk image. I tried running it with terminal, but couldn't get results after a couple of tries and stopped trying. I haven't tried any of the other applications you reccomended, since it's getting late for me. Hopefully it's something simple to solve the connection problem, the BGM I can live with, but would be happy to try nearly anything to fix. It's so exciting that the game is almost playable now!