[Bug 58156] New: Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

Bug ID: 58156
           Summary: Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't
                    launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.6
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: MacOS
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Created attachment 78437
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78437
Wine-devel 10.6 log for "wine jkdemo.exe -windowgui"

the Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, it says
"smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize. This is a Windows 95 game demo

I tried setting the Windows Version to Windows 10, Windows 95, and Windows 98
in winecfg. I also tried launching the demo with and without the windowgui
flag: `wine jkdemo.exe -windowgui` as mentioned in AppDB HowTo section.

This is a regression because a lot of users report this game demo as Gold in
AppDB, including on macOS
(https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10948)

The jedi.exe file is a launcher GUI which works fine, but when clicking "Play
Jedi Knight Demo" it fails with the error:

`file` command info for: jkdemo.exe
PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

Unable to start the Jedi Knight Demo game program. Try running JK.EXE where you
installed the Demo directly. Also make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers
installed on your system.

The macOS terminal shows this error as one of the last things in the log:
"err:module:loader_init "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize, aborting"
(the module is normally unzipped next to the jkdemo.exe executable)

tested with Gcenx's Wine-devel 10.6
(https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/10.6) on macOS 11

and Wine-devel 9.21
(https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/9.21)

and Gcenx's Wine CrossOverFOSS 23.7.1-1 based on Wine 8.0.1
(https://github.com/Gcenx/winecx/releases/tag/crossover-wine-23.7.1-1)

download page (choose Download this File > Agree > Jedi Knight Demo.zip):
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1308-jedi-knight-dark-forces-i...
sha256: 7bc013918cf79879a086a10c27306f2f3511852726f4b4a9fec09668ed221d18

[Bug 58156] Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

ToastyBug  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|                            |https://community.pcgamingw
                   |                            |iki.com/files/file/1308-jed
                   |                            |i-knight-dark-forces-ii-dem
                   |                            |o/
           Keywords|                            |download, regression

[Bug 58156] Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

--- Comment #1 from ToastyBug  ---
I accidentally added the "`file` command" text in the middle of the GUI error
message text, it should read:

`file` command info for: jkdemo.exe
PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

The jedi.exe file is a launcher GUI which works fine, but when clicking "Play
Jedi Knight Demo" it fails with the error:

Unable to start the Jedi Knight Demo game program. Try running JK.EXE where you
installed the Demo directly. Also make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers
installed on your system.

[Bug 58156] Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

--- Comment #2 from ToastyBug  ---
I have verified (in a Win95 VM) that the ZIP download mentioned in the original
comment ("Jedi Knight Demo.zip") contains the same binary files as the
well-known 2012 upload of Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo 16-bit
installer from archive.org
(https://archive.org/details/StarWarsJediKnightDarkForcesII_1020)

A user wrote in another bugzilla comment from 2018 that they were able to play
this demo on macOS 10.13 (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34166#c106)

file info for the 2012 archive.org 16-bit installer download (won't run on
modern 64-bit only macOS):

"jedidemo.zip", sha256:
b92dd1dd34790a9152e706bef8976d051d1ff4f61fd401b1bd197b6abf80ee01
unzipped, contains "jedidemo.exe", sha256:
8aae38165e08b68bb63cfd21b8c28ed1d4d8f1bb400a0162588d5b86acdc827e

[Bug 58156] Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

--- Comment #3 from Rafał Mużyło  ---
Anything interesting in console output if you set WINEDEBUG to ''module' ?

[Bug 58156] Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

joaopa  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #4 from joaopa  ---
Created attachment 78438
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78438
Working fine with wine-10.6 in Linux

Demo from archive.org works fine for me in Linux with wine-10.6
Screenshot proves it.