Sims: Pet Stories Bug?

[Warren Dumortier]

Hello everybody!

I send this mail because I made a bug report some time ago and nobody is
looking to help...
Here's the bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11946, is there any
person who could make this game work?

Thanks

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 11:12:16 schrieb Warren Dumortier:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I send this mail because I made a bug report some time ago and nobody is
> looking to help...
> Here's the bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11946, is there any
> person who could make this game work?
> I'm sorry, but open source projects do not work that way. Filed bug reports do 
> not get lost, but we do not promise any bug response time as well.

Usually I send bug reports back to the end of my list when people become too 
naggy, but I've had a quick look at it:
> trace:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetVertexShaderConstantF (iface 0x3aacff8,
> srcData 0x20f80b0, start 0, count 1024) 
> It's the same problem as Sims 2, we need software vertex shader emulation for 
> this game.

[Stephen Eilert]

Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 11:12:16 schrieb Warren Dumortier:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > I send this mail because I made a bug report some time ago and nobody is
> > looking to help...
> > Here's the bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11946, is there any
> > person who could make this game work?
>
> I'm sorry, but open source projects do not work that way. Filed bug reports do 
> not get lost, but we do not promise any bug response time as well.
>
> Usually I send bug reports back to the end of my list when people become too 
> naggy, but I've had a quick look at it:
> > trace:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetVertexShaderConstantF (iface 0x3aacff8,
> > srcData 0x20f80b0, start 0, count 1024)
>
> It's the same problem as Sims 2, we need software vertex shader emulation for 
> this game.

Wouldn't that be a suitable project for the Summer of Code?


Stephen

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 17:20:13 schrieb Stephen Eilert:
> > It's the same problem as Sims 2, we need software vertex shader emulation
> > for this game.
>
> Wouldn't that be a suitable project for the Summer of Code?
> Maybe, but it has rather huge requirements:

-> The amount of work is HUGE(ok, we can limit it to e.g. Shader model 1.1)
-> There is some integration work to do(a bit easier since my shader/pipeline 
model changes)
-> It requires very good knowledge about x86 / x86_64 assembler
-> Mapping the shader instructions on regular FPUs is rather hard

So if there is someone who really enjoys coding in assembler and has excellent 
knowledge about it I am tempted to agree with shader emulation as a GSoC 
project. It surely isn't a project for a novice programmer.