Any luck with wine?

[Gandalf_greypilgrim]

Euh, just to clarify, I don't know much, he didn't go into details or anything, I just know that he wrote it in Delphi 4, using dx8 , the rest of the information comes from my own euh, knowledge...

Yes, yes, long live the FOSS!

Edit: oh btw, which wine version are you running and under which distro?
I am 20050111 under gentoo.

[Ed Kolis]

I'm running 20050211 under Fedora Core 3.

Say, on the topic of wine and SE, do you have any idea what causes these 2 errors in wine with SE4? They don't occur in winex...
1. When the combat replay appears, the log window doesn't go away; it hides most of the combat window; you have to press escape to quit the replay and go back to the game. A similar thing happens in Stars! with the splash screen, though fortunately you can just start a game by typing the game name and hitting enter.
2. Minimizing or alt-tabbing SE4 and then restoring it causes it to appear in a really tiny window from which about all you can do is quit.

[Gandalf_greypilgrim]

The best I can say, is to go back to an earlier wine. I just tried it out, and neither of those bugs occur with me with wine 20050111.

[Gandalf_greypilgrim]

Is Saturday okay for everyone to meet on irc? If so, I'll put the post on wine-devel asking for people to help out.

[Ed Kolis]

Saturday's all right. What time?

[Gandalf_greypilgrim]

I'll be on from about 15h00 UTC, I will make it a top priority and should be on for most of the day, or as long as it takes. I'll be in #starfury on irc.freenode.net .

[Combat Wombat]

So how did this go, get everything to work?

[parabolize]

Ed Kolis said:
2. Minimizing or alt-tabbing SE4 and then restoring it causes it to appear in a really tiny window from which about all you can do is quit.

Don't minimize with the se4 button; use your window manager. Set your desktop to something higher then 1024x768, tell wine to load se4 in a 1024x768 vdesktop by adding this to your config
Code:

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"Managed" = "Y"

"Desktop" = "1024x768" 

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If you or your system isn't happy with high res. the only thing I can think of is to add the 2 lines above to the wine config, use enlightenment, set the window to borderless, center it, and alt+rclick-iconify. I don't know how to do this with any other window manager.

[Ed Kolis]

*I am Anubis Threadnecromancess, king of death and destruction*

Any news on this front? I REALLY don't want to have to switch back to windows to play SE5 just because it uses an old version of directx...