[Bug 9637] New: Switchball doesn't run.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9637

Summary: Switchball doesn't run.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.44.
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.atomicelbow.com/
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=8037)
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Switchball start log

I installed the game "Switchball" ; the installation was fine, but I couldn't
manage to start the game.

wine Switchball.exe

The log is attached to this bug message.

[Bug 9637] Switchball doesn't run.

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--- Comment #1 from sacrediou   2007-09-12 08:17:31 ---
Mabe this is related to the PhysX driver but I'm not sure.

Note : the game doesn't require a PhysX card (I don't have one), just the
driver.

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--- Comment #2 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-12 09:09:57 ---
Does the free trial have the same problem?

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--- Comment #3 from sacrediou   2007-09-12 10:07:29 ---
Yes, I was using the free trial. And as far as I know this is the same
installation as the full game ; the full version is just unlocked with a code.

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--- Comment #4 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-12 10:55:30 ---
I couldn't download the trial with normal wine, because of another bug; i think
i'll file another bug for that. So i used ies4linux to download it.

Once installed, i get the same crash, but i couldn't get a decent +relay debug
trace; it crashes in a different way. Running in very old wine-version i get a
messagebox about unloading the debugger.

This all looks to me as it crashes because of some kind of copy protection :(
Do you happen to know what copy-protection the game uses?

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--- Comment #5 from sacrediou   2007-09-12 16:53:51 ---
It seems to be using "Activemark v6".

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--- Comment #6 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-25 15:18:13 ---
Created an attachment (id=8214)
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hack for EnumServicesStatusExA

Actually this seems partly to be a duplicate of bug #8331. With the hack above
the crash is gone , and i get a completely white window again. To avoid using
ies4linux again, i figured out what native dlls to use to get the page display
correctly, so one can at least try to start the game:
I copied the following dlls from my windows partition to wine's system32:

shdocvw.dll shlwapi.dll urlmon.dll mshtml.dll mshtml.tlb jscript.dll MSLS31.DLL
mlang.dll

Do "regsvr32 jscript.dll"

Run with WINEDLLOVERRIDES="shdocvw,shlwapi,urlmon,mshtml,mlang=n" wine
Switchball

Now the initial window comes up fine, and i can start the trial. However, i
don't see anything, i can see Switchball.exe is running (ps -ux) , but my
virtual desktop just stays empty. Maybe someone with other graphics card could
give it a shot.

[Bug 9637] Switchball doesn't run.

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--- Comment #7 from sacrediou   2007-09-25 17:52:17 ---
I patched "service.c" with the hack for EnumServicesStatusExA you gave and now
I this error :

The following DLL cannot be found or has a missing export : USER32.DLL

Maybe I forgot something when compiling/executing wine 0.9.45 from sources...
but other game (gta vice city) works.

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-26 01:03:18 ---
> The following DLL cannot be found or has a missing export : USER32.DLL

You either need to apply this patch:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2007-September/036489.html

or , simpler, just upgrade to current git. This patch only went into git
yesterday. Switchball is looking for some exports from raw input functions.
Good luck ;)

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--- Comment #9 from sacrediou   2007-09-26 12:37:22 ---
OK I upgrade to the current git, applied the patch, installed gecko for wine to
display html pages, and now I have an almost blank window with this message :

Not Found
The requested URL /offline/0087c9fc/valueadded/open.html was not found on this
server.

ZEDO 3G Server at amlocalhost.macrovision.com Port 80

I searched for a local open.html file but found nothing...

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--- Comment #10 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-26 12:43:49 ---
> and now I have an almost blank window with this message :

Read comment #6 to get around this, this is a bug in wine's shdocvw/mshtml

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--- Comment #11 from sacrediou   2007-09-26 15:30:17 ---
Using the windows2000 dll's and appropriate commands (comment #6), I have this
message :

(Warning)
The following DLL cannot be found or has a missing export: SHELL32.DLL

I copied this file from my windows2000 to the system32/ of wine, but the same
message show up again (I tried it in upper and lower case, but don't know if
that matter in wine).

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--- Comment #12 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-26 16:12:33 ---
Hi, i used dlls from my winxp partition and then it works. As a (not
recommended) workaround you could install ies4linux
(http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/download.html) and the run the game by
WINEPREFIX=~/.ies4linux/ie6 wine Switchball

(I'm not encouraging anyone to use ies4linux, but here it's needed to get
around the initial start-up screen, so we can at least see if there are any d3d
issues blocking this game)

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--- Comment #13 from sacrediou   2007-09-26 16:40:25 ---
Bad news again :

vincent@mnms:/opt/jeux/switchball$ WINEPREFIX=~/.ies4linux/ie6 wine Switchball
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP71.DLL (which is needed by
L"Z:\opt\jeux\switchball\Switchball.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR71.DLL (which is needed by
L"Z:\opt\jeux\switchball\Switchball.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"Z:\opt\jeux\switchball\Switchball.exe" failed, status c0000135

I checked my system32 dir, and msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll are here...

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--- Comment #14 from Louis Lenders   2007-09-27 02:12:31 ---
Just copy msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll to the directory where Switchball
resides, That should help

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--- Comment #15 from sacrediou   2007-09-27 07:22:01 ---
OK, now the game starts. There is the startup screen where we can choose
between the trial and buy the full version. When I clic to start the trial, the
screen disappear but the process is still running.

The log is attached to this topic.

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--- Comment #16 from sacrediou   2007-09-27 07:22:55 ---
Created an attachment (id=8232)
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debug log starting with hack for EnumServicesStatusExA and ies4linux

[Bug 9637] Switchball doesn't run.

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Bug 9637 depends on bug 8331, which changed state.

Bug 8331 Summary: Busdriver : instant crash
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8331

What    |Old Value                   |New Value
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

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Louis Lenders  changed:

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            Summary|Switchball doesn't run.     |Switchball only shows a
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--- Comment #17 from Louis Lenders   2007-10-15 15:07:42 ---
I guess this has to be solved bug by bug. The instant crash is fixed in current
git. Next problem is the blank window. Changing the title

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--- Comment #18 from Louis Lenders   2007-10-15 15:08:19 ---
Created an attachment (id=8594)
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screenshot of the problem

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--- Comment #19 from Louis Lenders   2007-11-13 16:07:31 ---
I move nomination for wine-1.0 target from ea-link application to this one.
This bug (the initial white screen that prevents the game from starting)
effects for now afaik:
Switchball
BusDriver
rFactor
I guess a lot more too.....

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--- Comment #20 from Dan Kegel   2007-12-18 23:51:44 ---
http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3826#p38611
says "My most recent wine failure was Brainiversity. That's the kind of app you
expect wine to eat for breakfast but it failed dismally."
So I tried it; it's a free download from http://www.brainiversity.com/
Sure enough, with this morning's ill-fated git,
wine failed to even download gecko properly.
When I installed that manually with winetricks,
it rewarded me with a main screen that said
"Not Found
The requested URL /offline/0085fd14/open.html was not found on this server.
ZEDO 3G Server at amlocalhost.macrovision.com Port 80"

So, looks like the same problem as comment #6.  One more app affected by this
bug.

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--- Comment #21 from Alex Villacís Lasso   2007-12-19 11:55:31 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3826#p38611
> says "My most recent wine failure was Brainiversity. That's the kind of app you
> expect wine to eat for breakfast but it failed dismally."
> So I tried it; it's a free download from http://www.brainiversity.com/
> Sure enough, with this morning's ill-fated git,
> wine failed to even download gecko properly.
> When I installed that manually with winetricks,
> it rewarded me with a main screen that said
> "Not Found
> The requested URL /offline/0085fd14/open.html was not found on this server.
> ZEDO 3G Server at amlocalhost.macrovision.com Port 80"
>
> So, looks like the same problem as comment #6.  One more app affected by this
> bug.

I am trying to run Brainiversity inside a Win98 QEMU virtual machine, but
without luck. It only eats CPU without any visible window. On top of that, the
last try caused a GPF on Brainiversity, so it seems to have problems with Win98
or QEMU.

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--- Comment #22 from Drom Kapult   2007-12-19 14:09:17 ---
The author of Brainiversity has gone into basic detail about the how he created
the game:

http://passfieldgames.blogspot.com/2007/09/making-games-on-budget-part-2.htm...
http://passfieldgames.blogspot.com/2007/09/making-games-on-budget-part-3.htm...

I've checked out other games based on the popcap framework
(http://developer.popcap.com/forums/pop_index.php) like Bookworm
(http://www.popcap.com/games/free/bookworm) and they work fine with wine but
Bookworm had a problem with net connection.

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--- Comment #23 from Louis Lenders   2008-03-03 14:50:43 ---
*** Bug 8308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #24 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-22 09:03:15 ---
This bug is too big and messy for a 1.0 target.
If somebody wants to file a new, clean one,
we can consider that for 1.0.
Deferring.

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--- Comment #25 from Fernando Martins   2009-03-30 15:59:28 ---
Ok, it was indeed messy to go through this bug report, but I believe this bug
is gone. This is what I did, with wine 1.1.18 (git):

1) Install Switchball, including:
- tick off the tray icon during Physx install
- ignore registration request
2) replace/add following dlls into system32: shdocvw.dll shlwapi.dll urlmon.dll
mshtml.dll jscript.dll MSLS31.DLL
3) do the dll overrides with winecfg

Points 2) and 3) are still needed to overcome the preliminary shdocvw related
bug.
Note also that ies4linux (as indicated in another comment) didn't work.

The game runs both in virtual desktop and full screen. I believe the bug
reporter(s) were not even able to reach the game menus, therefore I believe the
bug is fixed.

Other issues: I had to reduce video effects from highest to high which makes it
playable but with some obstructing shadow. Sadly, mouse pointer is unavailable,
but keyboard seems to work well. In game sound had some noise (not a
pulse-audio issue since it was not running).

BTW, I'll file a test report in appdb to motivate others to try it out and
report other bugs :-). I suppose the rating should be Bronze, right? (it
"feels" as Gold to me)

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--- Comment #26 from Austin English   2009-03-30 17:06:17 ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> Ok, it was indeed messy to go through this bug report, but I believe this bug
> is gone. This is what I did, with wine 1.1.18 (git):
> - Install Switchball, including:
> - tick off the tray icon during Physx install
> - ignore registration request
> - replace/add following dlls into system32: shdocvw.dll shlwapi.dll urlmon.dll
>
> mshtml.dll jscript.dll MSLS31.DLL

This means there's still a bug in our IE implementation. As Dan said, please
file a new bug.

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--- Comment #27 from Fernando Martins   2009-03-31 05:16:24 ---
I'm not totally sure this is the best course of action (to file a new bug),
since when I read the bug report, it refers to at least two bugs, and I got the
impression from comment 10 that the ie bug is already known (admittedly no id
is provided).

I understood Dan Kegel's request as a need to simplify the bug report ("clean
one") to point to the real issue (crash or blank window game) rather than the
known ie implementation bug.

In order to avoid creating potentially duplicate bug reports, can you confirm
this is indeed the desired course of action?

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--- Comment #28 from Dan Kegel   2009-03-31 06:24:14 ---
Comment #10 just said it was a bug, it didn't say there was a bug report :-)

Go ahead and file a new bug for just that one part of the problem.

It's good to avoid duplicates, but when in doubt, go ahead and file a new bug.

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--- Comment #29 from Fernando Martins   2009-03-31 11:27:28 ---
Actually, I believe this ie implementation bug is reported already in
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12535

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--- Comment #30 from Fernando Martins   2009-04-14 15:47:52 ---
> From my POV, this bug report could be closed. I spent quite some time with it

to sort it out and I believe I've provided all the info needed to close it and
the the remaining bug is already reported in another bug report. Why not close
it?

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--- Comment #31 from Austin English   2009-04-14 21:24:46 ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> From my POV, this bug report could be closed. I spent quite some time with it
> to sort it out and I believe I've provided all the info needed to close it and
> the the remaining bug is already reported in another bug report. Why not close
> it?

You can close it if you like, but there's a download available, so anyone can
test. Not really any reason to close it....

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--- Comment #32 from Fernando Martins   2009-04-15 01:24:33 ---
I don't understand: 
1- I don't have any option to close it. I thought only the maintainers could do
it, which makes even more sense since I am not the original reporter.

2- Why is there not a reason to close it? because there is a download doesn't
really seem a reason to me. Is it needed some additional information from my
side?
Is it needed another confirmation from other people?

Please note that it was asked by Dan Kegel to file a new bug report so that it
could be properly handled by the developers, and there is already a bug report
for the pending bug, so I am led to believe there is a good reason to actually
close it.

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--- Comment #33 from Dan Kegel   2009-04-15 09:46:45 ---
Closing.  Thanks, Fernando.

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #34 from Alexandre Julliard   2009-04-24 12:00:52 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.20.