wine users - Apr 2011 - Tropico 3 Demo Graphics Problem - People are not visible

Hi!

I am trying to run the Tropico 3 Demo on Wine 1.3.18. Everything is displaying
fine (buildings, trees, etc.), except the people.
The city looks like a ghost city, doors opening and closing but nobody is there.

Can somebody help me what can be wrong? I tried different graphics options in
the game, and different Direct 3d settings in the registry, but nothing seems to
be working.

I have a dll override for the d3dx9_41.dll. (Maybe I need more dll overrides?)

Here is the output of the game:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f384,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:imagehlp:ImageLoad (C:\Program Files\Kalypso\Tropico 3 Demo\Tropico3
Demo.exe, (null)): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f384,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x5a534552 (as fourcc: RESZ)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x5a534552) in
the format lookup table
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ee44,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ed3c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HD-Audio Generic,
disabling mixer
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x1cd7b048,0x1cd7afd0): stub
fixme:avrt:AvSetMmThreadCharacteristicsW (L"Audio",0x6951ea44): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't
know what to do!
err:d3d_surface:surface_set_texture_name Surface has SFLAG_INTEXTURE set, but no
texture name.
err:d3d_surface:surface_modify_location Surface 0x1d7288 does not have any up to
date location.
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_location Downloading RGB surface 0x5baf5928 to
reload it as sRGB.
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_location Downloading RGB surface 0x5baf8258 to
reload it as sRGB.
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_location Downloading RGB surface 0x1ced02c8 to
reload it as sRGB.
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_location Downloading RGB surface 0x1ce0f630 to
reload it as sRGB.

And the fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_location Downloading RGB surface
0x1ce0f630 to reload it as sRGB. type lines go on forever.
And the err:d3d_surface: messages seems to be interesting, but I don't know
how to deal with those.

Any help would be appreciated.

This only seems to be happening for me with an ATI GPU.... using nvidia or an
Intel HD 3000 the game runs fine, but everything is invisible if I try to use my
Radeon 6750.  I tried several Wine versions and tons of Direct3D settings and
dll overrides, but nothing seemed to work.

On 4/21/11 10:59 AM, doh123 wrote:
> This only seems to be happening for me with an ATI GPU.... using nvidia or
an Intel HD 3000 the game runs fine, but everything is invisible if I try to use
my Radeon 6750.  I tried several Wine versions and tons of Direct3D settings and
dll overrides, but nothing seemed to work.
>
Doh123:

Known shortcoming with the current Catalyst drivers.  This has been 
discussed several times here.

James McKenzie

I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 card, but the strange thing that I can see
the buildings, the trees, only the people is missing.

And when I was trying different settings I found that in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
should be set otherwise the buildings (and maybe even the trees as well)
disappear.

Thank you for all your help.

Do you know if this problem affects the full game too, or this problem is only
with the demo?

viktorias wrote:
> Great news! I have updated today to Ubuntu 11.04 and I also updated wine
and I reinstalled the ATI driver and the people appeared on the game!
> Tiny baby little hick up that the water is looking a bit weird, and if I
set the water quality higher then the game crashes.

On Mac OS X... updating to 1.3.19 now just causes it to crash on start up for
me... going back to 1.3.18 it starts but has the invis people problem... the
crash is new with 1.3.19 for me, and happens using the Radeon or the Intel...
back on 1.3.18 it still works perfectly on the Intel.

jjmckenzie wrote:
>  think that I remember you were using MacPorts version of Wine.
> 
> I'll look at 1.3.19 built using a different script.
> 
> James McKenzie

Tried 1.3.19 built from source in Wineskin, as well as just trying it manually
from source and command line... haven't tried macports yet, its still listed
as 1.3.18.

jjmckenzie wrote:
> On 5/1/11 1:31 PM, doh123 wrote:
> 
> > jjmckenzie wrote:
> > 
> > > think that I remember you were using MacPorts version of Wine.
> > > 
> > > I'll look at 1.3.19 built using a different script.
> > > 
> > > James McKenzie
> > > 
> > 
> > Tried 1.3.19 built from source in Wineskin, as well as just trying it
manually from source and command line... haven't tried macports yet, its
still listed as 1.3.18.
> > 
> > 
> Did it work or crash?
> 
> I have 1.3.19 build from a script as well as from a customized Fink script.
> 
> James McKenzie
1.3.19 just crashes at start up, never getting the main menu... the standard
Wine deficiency pop up message..  Since viktorias was victorious at getting the
models to show up with the latest Wine I thought I'd try it, but it just no
longer works.  I haven't felt like doing another regression test just yet..
just did one yesterday

jjmckenzie wrote:
> I'm running wine 1.3.19 with e-Sword just fine here.  I'll have to
do
> more checking, if you wish.
> 
> James McKenzie

I'm only referring to Tropico 3.. the subject of this thread.  1.3.19 is
working fine on several programs.

jjmckenzie wrote:
> My misunderstanding.  Is this program available as demo or trial software?
> 
> James McKenzie

yep

http://www.tropico3.com/?p=downloads

On 5/1/11 7:28 PM, doh123 wrote:
> jjmckenzie wrote:
>> My misunderstanding.  Is this program available as demo or trial
software?
>>
>> James McKenzie
>
> yep
>
> http://www.tropico3.com/?p=downloads
>
Thanks.  Time to turn in for the night, but tomorrow is another day.

James McKenzie

If you run this from command line like this:
Prompt:~$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/x/wine_tr3demo" wine C:\\Program\
Files\\Kalypso\\Tropico\ 3\ Demo\\Tropico3\ Demo.exe

And you get this:

fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f384,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:imagehlp:ImageLoad (C:\Program Files\Kalypso\Tropico 3 Demo\Tropico3
Demo.exe, (null)): stub
fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
fixme:faultrep:ReportFault 0x32f87c 0x0 stub

Then you should change the directory to the directory where the Tropico 3 is
installed and then run the above command.

In winedcfg the I set the Graphics panel I set emulate virtual desktop and set
its size to 1024x768.

I have the following dll overrides since the demo install has overwritten
several files in the windows system32 directory during install.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides]
"d3dx9_41"="native,builtin"
"X3DAudio1_2"="native,builtin"
"X3DAudio1_3"="native,builtin"
"X3DAudio1_4"="native,builtin"
"X3DAudio1_5"="native,builtin"
"X3DAudio1_6"="native,builtin"
"XAPOFX1_0"="native,builtin"
"xapofx1_1"="native,builtin"
"XAPOFX1_2"="native,builtin"
"XAPOFX1_3"="native,builtin"
"XAudio2_0"="native,builtin"
"XAudio2_1"="native,builtin"
"XAudio2_2"="native,builtin"
"XAudio2_3"="native,builtin"
"XAudio2_4"="native,builtin"
"xinput1_1"="native,builtin"
"xinput1_2"="native,builtin"
"xinput1_3"="native,builtin"
"xinput9_1_0"="native,builtin"

Having the d3dx9_41 override is important. (I am not quite sure about the others
since I have not tested the game without them in wine 1.3.19. If I remeber well
in wine 1.3.18 the game worked without the other overrides as well.)

In the Direct3D section I have the following settings:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="gdi"
"Multisampling"="enabled"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="readtex"
"StrictDrawOrdering"="disabled"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"

I think most of the cases these are the default settings, so maybe you don't
need to set them up at all.

Regards:
viktorias

And some additional info I forgot to mention:
The ATI Catalyst Control center shows the following informations about the
driver:
Driver Packaging Version: 8.78.3-100920a-105558C-ATI
2D Driver version: 8.84.60
OpenGL version: 4.1.10665 Compatibility Profile Context

This is the driver which was installed by Ubuntu 11.04 in
System/Administration/Additional Drivers.