http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11995
Summary: Wipeout XL hangs at startup Product: Wine Version: CVS/GIT Platform: Other URL: http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/wipeoutxl/wipeout xl.zip.html OS/Version: other Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: winmm&mci AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
In http://jmikeneedham.dyndns.org/?p=10, a user complained that Psygnosis Wipeout XL hangs on startup. I confirmed this with the downloadable demo, http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/wipeoutxl/wipeoutxl.zip.html Name wipeoutxl.zip Size 6153701 sha1sum 5e420f8e79ac63e1e3bb76692dbfb0ae1caf1161
Looking at the log, it seems to be looping endlessly looking for an audio CD to be inserted. This was common practice back in the day; gamers would always throw an audio CD-ROM in the drive so they could listen to music while they played. Games often came on hybrid audio/data cds. When you insert a hybrid audio/data cd, though, you have to tell the system to mount the data portion, else wine won't give it a drive letter.
So, if you jump through those hoops (e.g. insert a cd-rom and tell the system to mount it), the game will continue to the next problem: you can tell the game to start, and the welcome screen then goes away, but no game window comes up. The log shows:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x34f820,0x00000000), stub! fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 8 err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful -- perhaps display has changed?
So I guess the next step is to try this on an 8 bit display.