Re: [Bug 9221] Force Feedback doesn' t work but does after little source modification

[Gonzalo Igartua]

Hi Gerald ,i'm Gonzalo,i have been testing a lot of games with wine in
linux.

The result of this work is :

Games working with force feedback in linux

*Vdrift --native

wine

**LFS*  ---patch
*GPL   ---*patch*
Need for Speed Most Wanted* ---patch
*4x4 Evolution*
*Colin McRae Rally 05
**Need for Speed 4 High Stakes*
*Need for Speed II*
*Need for Speed III*: *Hot Pursuit*


The game *  **Need for Speed Most Wanted *work with your patch,is a new game
discovered.
Without the patch it haven´t force feedback.I was testing with the demo
game, it is here

http://www.gamershell.com/download_11487.shtml


for download.

If you want ,we can test its better,if you have a preferred game in the list
we can begin  with this one.
Some of them give me errors with joystick symbols not defined,and clues for
improve the wine emulator.

If you want, i can say you how install the games,or send you the messages
that display the game when don't work the force feedback.

Thank you

Regards



2007/11/26, wine-bugs(a)winehq.org <wine-bugs(a)winehq.org>:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9221
>
> --- Comment #11 from Gerald Folcher <geraldf2(a)free.fr>  2007-11-26
> 14:38:13 ---
> Foreword: Yep it seems Marti is right, so to anybody: feel free to
> contact me directly by e-mail if you want to discuss about using this
> hack/patch.
>
> Anyway, thank you for your interest Gonzalo (I'm glad to hear that it
> works for you on 0.9.42), I'm myself still using Wine 0.9.42, because
> in the mean time I tried more recent Wine versions (just compiling
> them as is) but they suffer from sound problems that impact sound
> quality and general performance in Grand Prix Legends, so I always
> stay with the old trusty 0.9.42 and so never "upgraded" my patch/hack.
>
> After reading your post I tried the changes on 0.9.49 and indeed it
> doesn't work too well with that version. I may try some day to adapt
> it on a newer Wine version whenever one working well with GPLegends
> comes out some day (but I'm not sure I would succeed tho, as my
> understanding of the code is very limited).
>
> So as you figured out, for the moment I would advice to stick with
> 0.9.42 (I use a WINEDEBUG=fixme-dinput in front of the wine command to
> prevent all the fixme console spam).
>
> Thank you again for your interest.
>
> Again, anybody feel free to contact me directly.
>
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