wine users - Sep 2011 - Problems with this Harry Potter PC game in wine 1.2.2

Hi guys. 

I am using Lubuntu 11.04 and so far I've been able to run via wine a few
games, among which: Star Wars KOTOR1, TOCA race driver 3, Neverwinter Nights
1...

Now I tried installing and running Harry Poter 1 (Sorcerer Stone). Installs ok,
but game crashes when starting with a critical error "General Protection
Fault".

Here is what the terminal shows:

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emy at emmy:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/EA Games/Harry Potter TM/System$ wine
HP.exe
fixme:process:GetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,0x32eaa0,0x32ea9c): stub
fixme:process:GetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,0x33eab0,0x33eaac): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e560,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e560,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32c384,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to
16
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer,
this is not properly supported.
Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if
possible.
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
err:ddraw:PixelFormat_WineD3DtoDD Can't translate this Pixelformat 58
err:ddraw:PixelFormat_WineD3DtoDD Can't translate this Pixelformat 64
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x30054,49262,0x00000001,1B): stub
err:d3d:resource_init Out of adapter memory
err:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_CreateNewSurface IWineD3DDevice::CreateSurface failed.
hr = 8876017c
emy at emmy:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/EA Games/Harry Potter TM/System$ 
...

I tried googling for these errors but what I've found are related to other
games and lots of stuff I don't understand, since I'm a novice user.

Anyone knows the right fix? Thanks in advance.

Have you tried running the game in a later version of Wine? And what's your
hardware specs, too?

dardack wrote:
> 
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Ok, first of all my PC specs exceed by far the game's specs. Other
games
> > run very well, so it's not a hardware problem, nor a video driver.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Just because the specs listed for native Win/Mac are exceeded doesn't
mean
> it will run great in Linux.  Your adding layers of calls to the original
> game.  Also, not everything is implemented in Wine (or if it is some are
> still buggy).  So your video card/drivers are key to helping you.  This
game
> in the winehq app DB has a silver/plat/gold rating, with a test from Aug
> 2011.  So it should work.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> MacNean C. Tyrrell
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You are partially right only. Yes, video drivers are important, but, as I said,
same video driver allows me to run more recent and more video card demanding
games, such as Jedi Academy, KOTOR, Toca RD3...

Here:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/harrypotterandthess/tech_info.html

That should tell you that, unless I have a 10 years old PC, which is not the
case, considering games I'm able to run, and considering:

...
My system specs:

AMD Athlon 64x2 4200+
2 Gb RAM DDR2
ECS GeForce6100SM-M2 onboard video, 128 Mb
Driver: Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (Recommended) PROPRIETARY 270.41.06  
...

Harry Potter 1 should run flawlessly!

And guess what? Harry Potter 2 (Chamber of Secrets), which is a more demanding
game, installs and runs very well. Well, not quite as fast as in Windows XP, but
at a quite acceptable frame rate.

You say games run slower in Wine by definition. No, there are cases when they
run much faster.

I think the error in my case is more related to resolution somehow, first of
all, than to anything else...