wine users - May 2011 - Problem with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and Wine 1.3.20. I've been trying to run The Witcher
2 but with no success.

I've installed vcrun2010 with winetricks and downloaded mfcu100.dll (to
system32) because that's what showed up to be missing when runnig game from
terminal.

Now all I get is this message:

fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0

and I have no clue what it means. 

I have the Retail version which is using secuROM. Looking at AppDB there is only
one test data and it's the DRM free version from GOG so maybe the problem is
DRM.

Mateusz Stachowski wrote:
> I have the Retail version which is using secuROM.
It won't work on Wine without a "no-cd" patch.

What file(s)/ registry key(s)/value(s) you had to copy over from the 
virtual machine is important info, and you should probably post it 
somewhere. Not your actual files and registry key values, of course, but what
they are (as in name and path to them) is critical info that might help others
(so they don't have to go through snapshotting themselves). Maybe this info
can help the WINE development team.

RegShot DOES show what registry keys have been modified, added, or removed. But
apparently according to you, WhatChanged
doesn't show modified files. Did it show deleted files? What about 
registry stuff? Did it show modified registry keys/ values? Removed 
registry keys/values? It had to do at least added registry keys/values. 

If WhatChanged lacks in the registry department, you could use both.
That's pretty interesting that 
SecuRom is only needed for activation. I'm guessing you found this out 
by it asking for the disc in the virtual machine for activation, and 
then after activation, it let you play without the disc inserted (even 
when you remove it, close the launcher, re-open the launcher and tell it to run
the game without the disc)?

Wow. I'm amazed that I actually helped budge this along at all. I don't
know C or have WINE programming knowledge.
I looked at the debug output you put in pastebin just to see it, and most of it
makes no sense to me or rings a bell. But I WAS surprised to see uxtheme in
there, because I actually know what that is. That has to do with Windows (at
least XP) themes. I know this because I saw the uxtheme patch as an option in
nLite, a program that lets you make custom ior automated Windows XP discs
(There's now a vLite for Vista). The uxtheme patch lets you use unsigned
themes, like the way-cool Halo 3 theme from belchfire.net. Then I found out the
amazing things you can do with Gnome and Compiz in Linux and made a custom
"theme" (not an actual packaged theme - just options I set) of Tron.
Yep. Kicks butt.
Glad you actually did the tutorial and that it got you a little closer.
Remember, I haven't personally used WhatChanged yet, but have used RegShot.


Why would uxtheme be in there? Where you using an emulated desktop? Desktop
integration? Usage of a theme?
It also says that shell32<elf> got deferred. I know that in Windows it is
a dll with lots of icons in it that you can extract with IconsExtract, which,
BTW, works platinum in WINE (maybe I should make a WINE AppDB page for that - I
don't think there is one).


Cheers,
Jake
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WhatChanged doesn't lack in registry department this are the relevant
changed keys:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DSS]

and

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red]

as for the files:

Activate.exe, Launcher.exe, Register.exe, debugdata.log (also
readme_language.rtf)

in bin folder:

curllib.dll, libeay32.dll, libsasl.dll, openldap.dll, ssleay32.dll, witcher2.exe

there bin some new files in Launcher folder also in
C:\users\...\witcher2_Data_DFE

and in My Documents\Witcher2\Config and Downloads you should copy those to your
home/username/Witcher 2 that's probably all.

uxtheme in Wine has the same purpose as in Windows XP (let's you change
theme of Wine) and I know waht the shell32 is. I remember that changing those
files was the only way to change Windows XP look and it was so painfull.

Mateusz,

????? You win the prize. Good work, and thanks for the info. Like I said
earlier, I'm just surprised I knew what any of that meant in the debug
output.
????? You probably already tried setting WINE to mimic different Windows
versions, but have you tried that since you got it activated?
????? And you know what they say; WINE gets better with age. I think we're
about due for 1.3.21. Can you feel it in your bones? WINE 1.3.21 feels like
it's going to be great. You see, WINE 1.3.20 implemented some new stuff, but
I remember the WINE mail talking about a few problems that came with those new
features (like mouse stuff?). So maybe 1.3.21 will have all that new stuff but
with less problems.

Cheers,
Jake
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CDProjekt RED has issued a 1.1 patch which is supposed to remove SecuROM from
the game. This might help you..

Hey guys! WINE 1.3.21 just came out! Have you tried that yet? Save those
activation files and registry keys, upgrade to WINE 1.3.21, and reinstall
Witcher if the upgrade gets rid of your old wine installs (though I think your
.wine folder should be saved). Then copy the activation registry keys and files
back over. I hope for the best.

On 5/27/11 5:00 PM, SpawnHappyJake wrote:
> Hey guys! WINE 1.3.21 just came out! Have you tried that yet? Save those
activation files and registry keys, upgrade to WINE 1.3.21, and reinstall
Witcher if the upgrade gets rid of your old wine installs (though I think your
.wine folder should be saved). Then copy the activation registry keys and files
back over. I hope for the best.
>
Upgrading Wine should not affect the wine directory.  However, this is 
good advice in all cases.

I've tried installing 1.1 patch but it failed with message something liked
this:

unable to initialize (or open) launcher process

so I have installed it in Virtual Machine and copied the changed files into
wineprefix.

Now I can see movies playing on start of game (CD Projekt RED, RED Engine...)
but after that there is only black screen.

I've installed with winetricks d3dx9 and changed UseGLSL to disabled.
That's what I'm getting in terminal:


Code:
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f55c,0x00000000), stub!
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Brak dostpu
fixme:avrt:AvSetMmThreadCharacteristicsW (L"Audio",0xdf5ea3c): stub
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub
fixme:d3d:state_lastpixel Last Pixel Drawing Disabled, not handled yet
fixme:xinput:XInputGetState (0 0x32833c)
wine: Call from 0x7bc48e70 to unimplemented function
w1import.dll.?W1CanImport@@YA_NPB_WPADH at Z, aborting
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr
0xb74865c6
wine client error:9: write: BBdny deskryptor pliku



I'm still using Wine 1.3.20 because the new version isn't available in
Ubuntu PPA. I think that maybe it will show there by Monday or even later.
Anyway it probably won't make The Witcher 2 to run. As I'm writing about
packages from Ubuntu Wine Team I noticed that from version 1.3.19 it doesn't
have OSS sound driver anymore. Is it an upstream change or just a choice of
Ubuntu packagers.