DirectX 8 test: Gothic 2 on wine

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello List!

Gothic2 seems to start working with wine. Well - as long as you disable sound in system/gothic.ini. 

There are some issues with DirectDraw/Direct3D I'd like to report (not sure if they are known):

 - most textures are missing
 - everything is really dark (I have to set gamma to 2.5 (via xgamma -gamma 2.5) )
 - fonts are missing/crippled

I took some pictures and put it together with a log on a simple webpage. Please have a look at 

http://leidola.newcon.de/gothic2


Thanks a lot for your attention,

Ciao,

Olaf Leidinger

[Sebastian Schlingmann]

Am Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:13:22 +0100
schrieb Olaf Leidinger <leidola(a)newcon.de>:
> Hello List!
>
> Gothic2 seems to start working with wine. Well - as long as you
> disable sound in system/gothic.ini.
>
> There are some issues with DirectDraw/Direct3D I'd like to report
> (not sure if they are known):
>
> - most textures are missing
>  - everything is really dark (I have to set gamma to 2.5 (via xgamma
> -gamma 2.5) )
>  - fonts are missing/crippled
>
> I took some pictures and put it together with a log on a simple
> webpage. Please have a look at
>
> http://leidola.newcon.de/gothic2
>
> Thanks a lot for your attention,
>
> Ciao,
>
> Olaf Leidinger

The sound problem might be quite a lot of work to fix. 
You can get sound working when you use the following native dll's:

dmime
dmsynth
dmstyle
dmusic

The crash seems to happen inside dmstyle/dmime:

fixme:dmime:IDirectMusicSegment8Impl_IDirectMusicSegment8_GetParam
(0x7fd35148, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0xffffffff, 0, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0)
fixme:dmstyle:IDirectMusicChordTrack_IDirectMusicTrack_GetParam
(0x7fd35738, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0): stub

When you look at the status of the dmusic related dlls on winehq they could use a lot more work. But Gothic seems to use some more exotic functions...

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello!
> The sound problem might be quite a lot of work to fix. 
> You can get sound working when you use the following native dll's:
>
> dmime
> dmsynth
> dmstyle
> dmusic
>
> The crash seems to happen inside dmstyle/dmime:
>
> fixme:dmime:IDirectMusicSegment8Impl_IDirectMusicSegment8_GetParam
> (0x7fd35148, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0xffffffff, 0, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0)
> fixme:dmstyle:IDirectMusicChordTrack_IDirectMusicTrack_GetParam
> (0x7fd35738, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0): stub
>
> When you look at the status of the dmusic related dlls on winehq they could use a lot more work. But Gothic seems to use some more exotic functions...

Okay, I tried it with native DLLs, the ones above plus dmband. Without native dmband it also crashes. But now the game works with sound.

Ciao,

Olaf

[Raphael]

> The sound problem might be quite a lot of work to fix.
> You can get sound working when you use the following native dll's:
>
> dmime
> dmsynth
> dmstyle
> dmusic
>
> The crash seems to happen inside dmstyle/dmime:
>
> fixme:dmime:IDirectMusicSegment8Impl_IDirectMusicSegment8_GetParam
> (0x7fd35148, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0xffffffff, 0, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0)
> fixme:dmstyle:IDirectMusicChordTrack_IDirectMusicTrack_GetParam
> (0x7fd35738, GUID_IDirectMusicStyle, 0, (nil), 0x7a4fa0): stub
>
> When you look at the status of the dmusic related dlls on winehq they could
> use a lot more work. But Gothic seems to use some more exotic functions...

Well IDirectMusicTrack_GetParam are not implemented at all ti's normal to 
crash :)

But why a ddraw (ie DirectX7 game) use DMusic (DirectX8) ? 

Regards,
Raphael

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
> But why a ddraw (ie DirectX7 game) use DMusic (DirectX8) ?
> Perhaps because ddraw can work without a 3D accelerator, but D3D8 can't. Maybe 
> they didn't like the interface changes in d3d8?

Stefan

[H. Verbeet]

On 24/02/06, Olaf Leidinger <leidola(a)newcon.de> wrote:
> - most textures are missing
>  - everything is really dark (I have to set gamma to 2.5 (via xgamma -gamma 2.5) )
>  - fonts are missing/crippled
>
> I took some pictures and put it together with a log on a simple webpage. Please have a look at
>
> http://leidola.newcon.de/gothic2
> Are you sure that's a d3d8 game? The log only shows d3d7/ddraw output.

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello!
> Are you sure that's a d3d8 game? The log only shows d3d7/ddraw output.

Sorry, this was my mistake...

Ciao,

Olaf

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 02:13 schrieb Olaf Leidinger:
> Hello List!
>
> Gothic2 seems to start working with wine. Well - as long as you disable
> sound in system/gothic.ini.
> Looks like it's an DirectDraw / Direct3D7 game. Another game on my list ;)
> - most textures are missing
> Happens to a few games, but you're lucky that you can see the colors. In 
> prince of persia 3D it's eighter 100% black or 100% white.
> - everything is really dark (I have to set gamma to 2.5 (via xgamma -gamma
> 2.5) ) - fonts are missing/crippled
> The gamma problem is known from Diablo 2

The fonts could be broken because the font files aren't installed correctly, 
but that's just a wild guess.
> I took some pictures and put it together with a log on a simple webpage.
> Please have a look at
> How is the game's performance with the fglrx driver?

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello again!
> > Gothic2 seems to start working with wine. Well - as long as you disable
> > sound in system/gothic.ini.
> > Looks like it's an DirectDraw / Direct3D7 game. Another game on my list ;)

Oh, sorry... my mistake!
> > - most textures are missing
> > Happens to a few games, but you're lucky that you can see the colors. In 
> > prince of persia 3D it's eighter 100% black or 100% white.
> > - everything is really dark (I have to set gamma to 2.5 (via xgamma -gamma
> > 2.5) ) - fonts are missing/crippled
> > The gamma problem is known from Diablo 2

Is this a new problem? It used to work very well for me ;-)
> The fonts could be broken because the font files aren't installed correctly, 
> but that's just a wild guess.

Hmmm... I can't see any font files in the directory. But I'll install it on win32 and compare.
> > I took some pictures and put it together with a log on a simple webpage.
> > Please have a look at
> > How is the game's performance with the fglrx driver?

After loading (which is (much?) faster on win32) the performance is okay - well, it doesn't flicker.  But I guess it'll be slower with more textures, won't it?

Ciao,

Olaf

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
> > The gamma problem is known from Diablo 2
>
> Is this a new problem? It used to work very well for me ;-)
> It works in ddraw mode, in d3d mode it's dark
> After loading (which is (much?) faster on win32) the performance is okay -
> well, it doesn't flicker.  But I guess it'll be slower with more textures,
> won't it?
> I don't think so. That some textures are there shows that they are rendered. 
> The missing textures are rendered to, but the texture content is wrong.