wine users - Aug 2010 - Night & Magic VIII - brightened central part

Greetings,

long, long ago i played successfully mm8 on wine. Time has passed enough
to play it again. ;)

Well, there is a problem now. See the screenshot.
http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8.jpg (76 KB)

A great part of the image is brightened and remains so for all future
images. This effect i do only see with mm8.

For the test i am using wine 1.3.0 with a freshly created ~/.wine. No
additional modifications to wine. And also no one to mm8 itself because
i was able to launch the game successfully with

wine start 'h:\_autorun\autorun.exe'

using the mounted CD2 of mm8. Well, i had to wait a bit until this
message appears

err:alsa:wine_snd_pcm_recover underrun occurred

or the game would crash. It crashes also when trying

hafi at e675 ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/mm8 $ wine mm8.exe

but that's another matter which has nothing to do with the graphical
problem. wine is set to Windows XP and virtual desktop.

Kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r1
Graphic card Geforce 8800 GTS
nvidia-drivers 195.36.31

Any thoughts?

Hartmut

Hello Hartmut,

I will test the game this weekend and report. In the meanwhile, I suggest that
you upgrade your video drivers, they are up to 256.44 now.

Das Letzte Einhorn:
>I will test the game this weekend and report.
Thanks for that.
>In the meanwhile, I suggest that you upgrade your video drivers, they
>are up to 256.44 now.
Mhm, no. This one is not even in the unstable part of Gentoo yet, it is
hard masked.

Hartmut

I use nvidia-drivers-256.44 on my main PC and it works just fine.

Add x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.unmask to emerge it.

Das Letzte Einhorn:
>I use nvidia-drivers-256.44 on my main PC and it works just fine.
Leichtsinniges Huhn. *g*
>Add x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.unmask to
>emerge it.
Done. Same problem with this driver. Running an old installation of mm8
in ~/.wine-s1 under wine 1.3.0, old savegame:

http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8-b.jpg (76 KB)

In this old installation i had replaced mm8.exe to avoid the crash when
starting the game. No graphic problem in the past with an ancient
version of wine. I was not able to compile an old enough one for a test
because there was an issue with freetype. Sigh.

Hartmut

You should then file a bug at bugs.winehq.org . Run the game from a terminal and
upload your terminal output.

Otherwise, there is an unofficial patch for the game :
http://www.portailsmm.com/comm/downloads.html

Das Letzte Einhorn:
>You should then file a bug at bugs.winehq.org . Run the game from a
>terminal and upload your terminal output.
I was not really sure that wine was the culprit. And with ...
>Otherwise, there is an unofficial patch for the game:
>http://www.portailsmm.com/comm/downloads.html
... that i get http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/mm8-c.jpg :)

Now it is even possible to run the game with
hafi at e675 ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/mm8 $ wine mm8.exe
without a crash. Fine, very fine. Thanks.

Hartmut

I have MM6 through MM9 and besides a few bugs in MM9 they all play great in Wine
using the unofficial patches.