wine users - Jul 2011 - Age of Conan, Wine 1.3.23, Mac OS 10.6.7 ?

Age of Conan went free-to-play (sort of) recently, and I thought I'd give it
a look.  The AppDB entry and a search of bugs seems to indicate that it should
mostly work except for some texture problems, but I can't seem to get past
the installation.

Configuration: 
* Mac OS X 10.6.7
* Wine 1.3.23
* Age of Conan web installer

Process:
* Created fresh WINEPREFIX by: "wine notepad" (installed Gecko)
* Set audio driver by: "winecfg"
* Installed ie6 by: "winetricks ie6" (FunCom's game launchers all
seem to need it)
* Ran AoC installer: "wine ageofconan.exe" (the AoC installer appears
to install DirectX)
* Patcher window opens and is blank.
* Patcher installs some files and gives some error about another instance of the
patcher running, but I can't close the window.
* I kill wine with wineserver -k and restart patcher: "wine
ConanPatcher.exe" and AoC begins installation process (takes a few hours to
finish downloading and installing 7GB worth of stuff)
* I have to kill wine again with wineserver -k because patcher appears to have
finished but I can't see anything on the patcher window
* I copy dhcpcsvc.dll from a Windows XP SP3 installation to
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 because Awesomium.dll seems to need it
* I run Age of Conan: "cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Funcom/Age\ of\
Conan/; wine AgeOfConan.exe" (the patcher runs again and installs another
17MB worth of stuff)

I eventually get the following debug statments:


Code:
[2011-07-02 23:58:06Z #0] [ID:0] [ResourceManager] Resource 1020003:3532063 does
not have correct md5
(b3348fb60e3de32723374d18a6717489!=9ee83f072acba547888b33702a06fc77)
[2011-07-02 23:58:09Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:27/114 (4.4/17.9 MB) 
Speed:453.6 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:12Z #0] [ID:0] [RDBManager] Inserted 1 of 1 resources from
pack
http://aoc-us-update.live.ageofconan.com/upm/rdb/pack/95/a42cc649f87d623e414d1fc4750ec7
[2011-07-02 23:58:14Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:43/114 (6.7/17.9 MB) 
Speed:389.1 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:19Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:52/114 (9.8/17.9 MB) 
Speed:595.2 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:19Z #0] [ID:0] [fcCore/IOBuffer] Decompress(): Could not
decompress stream. src-size:2444979 dst-size:2621518 zlib-error:-3
[2011-07-02 23:58:19Z #0] [ID:0] [ResourceManager] Resource 1010004:123911 does
not have correct md5
(4c7cd2f06cebf469fdb9f6add10bd356!=8f199ae1fd7e59fa9f1ec9842011cf80)
[2011-07-02 23:58:24Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:69/114 (11.9/17.9 MB) 
Speed:521.7 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:29Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:82/114 (13.9/17.9 MB) 
Speed:427.7 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:34Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:95/114 (15.6/17.9 MB) 
Speed:238.0 KB/s
[2011-07-02 23:58:39Z #0] [ID:0] [HTTPManager] Files:109/114 (17.5/17.9 MB) 
Speed:385.8 KB/s
fixme:wave:AudioUnit_SetVolume independent left/right volume not implemented
(1.000000, 1.000000)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x37e0cac "?" wait timed
out in thread 0023, blocked by 0028, retrying (60 sec)



I try to disable the patcher by removing the HttpPatchFolder entry from the
LocalConfig.xml file per the AppDB comment and try running AoC again and it
starts to run the client, but then crashes with the following error:


Code:
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x0 1 0x0 0
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x0,-1,0x0,0x0,0,3,0x0,0,0x0) - stub!
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
[2011-07-03 00:00:15Z #0] [ID:0] IMPORTANT: Main - Universe is a live universe
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser returning no proxy used
[2011-07-03 00:00:22Z #0] [ID:0] ERROR: ResourceManager -
RDBSource_c::ProcessRequest. Resource 1010513:150119 does not exist in any
available RDB sources.
[2011-07-03 00:00:22Z #0] [ID:0] ERROR: ResourceManager -
RDBSource_c::ProcessRequest. Resource 1010214:150119 does not exist in any
available RDB sources.
[2011-07-03 00:00:22Z #0] [ID:0] ERROR: ResourceManager - Resource 1000625:0
does not exist in any available RDB sources.
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x15a904a0,
L"\\\\.\\root\\cimv2", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000000, (null),
0x0, 0xd2cf62c)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e90c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x34324644 (as fourcc: DF24)
WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x34324644) in
the format lookup table
wine: Call from 0x7b82cb9b to unimplemented function
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXFloat32To16Array, aborting
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  128 (Apple-DRI)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  2 ()
  Value in failed request:  0x1000004
  Serial number of failed request:  365
  Current serial number in output stream:  365
[2011-07-03 00:00:23Z #0] [ID:0] ERROR: ResourceManager -
RDBSource_c::ProcessRequest. Resource 1010513:3664656 does not exist in any
available RDB sources.
[2011-07-03 00:00:23Z #0] [ID:0] ERROR: ResourceManager -
RDBSource_c::ProcessRequest. Resource 1010214:3664656 does not exist in any
available RDB sources.



Anyone can help look into this?  It looks like the last patch failed to apply
correctly, and there might be some DirectX error too.

Besides checking out AoC's new F2P content, my ulterior motive for trying
out AoC is the rumors that FunCom's other game, AO will likely use the AoC
client sometime in the future.  Since AoC is F2P now, I'm hoping some kind
wine devs might find it in their heart to take a look into this.

On 7/2/11 5:06 PM, ischou wrote:
> fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized
(0x34324644) in the format lookup table
> wine: Call from 0x7b82cb9b to unimplemented function
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXFloat32To16Array, aborting
This is being worked on at this moment by the Wine development volunteer 
staff and might be in the next release pending approval.
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
>    Major opcode of failed request:  128 (Apple-DRI)
>    Minor opcode of failed request:  2 ()
>    Value in failed request:  0x1000004
>    Serial number of failed request:  365
>    Current serial number in output stream:  365
Do you have only Apple's X11 installed?  I highly recommend in that case 
installing XQuartz 2.6.2 or higher.

James

Nope. I'm using XQuartz since I started using Wine.

Apparently the final patch fails for some reason (hashes don't match, and
there was some error about zlib being unable to decompress stream).

I ran VMWare Fusion and attempted to do the last patch in Windows with a share
inside my wineprefix, but it still crashes in the same way and complains that my
installation is corrupt.

I'm going to try the "validate and repair" option from VMWare at
some point when I have some time.  Everything the AoC installer/patcher does
seems to take at least 2 hours (initial installation took 4 to download and
compress something like 5GB worth of stuff).

This type of problem usually occurs when setup d3dx9_36.dll is missing from your
computer. This dll file can be downloaded from here.
http://dllcentral.com/d3dx9_36.dll/9.19.949.2111/
Download it and then extract the downloaded zip file to the Windows System32
folder, which is located in Windows Drive.

it is probably simpler and safer using winetricks

Code:

$ sh winetricks d3dx9_36

jjmckenzie wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, ischou <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> This code has been approved and should be in the next (soon) release
> of Wine.  However, I don't think this is going to solve all of your
> problems as you seem to continue to be using Apples broken X11.
> Please correct if you have installed and are using XQuartz 2.6.2 or
> higher.
> 
> James

No. I thought I stated earlier that I am using XQuartz 2.6.2.

I ran the ConanPatcher.exe using a Windows XP virtual machine to complete the
patching and also ran the "Repair Game Data" function.  All told, took
a few hours.

The tail end of the process the patcher log file still gave an error about not
being able to "decompress src stream" or some such thing, so I think
the game files are still corrupt.

Trying to run the game in Wine still crashes, but I'm pretty sure trying to
run the game using the Windows XP VM would probably crash too.  The next thing
to try would be to do the full install using the Windows XP VM and hopefully the
installation won't be broken, but I don't have another 5-6 hours to
invest in that effort at the moment.

No more "wine: Call from 0x7b82cb9b to unimplemented function
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXFloat32To16Array, aborting" error anymore, but still has
the "X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range
for operation)" error, and also there are debug error messages about some
resource not found in the RDB.

If anyone else wishes to try this, I recommending copying an installation over
from a Windows machine or using a Windows VM to try installing.