[Bug 14553] New: Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic, Can not create or join a network game (directplay 8)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

Summary: Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic, Can not create or join a
                    network game (directplay 8)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.1
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version
                    &iId=3101&iTestingId=14987
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-dplay
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Age of Wonders II "Shadow Magic" and Age of Wonders II "The Wizard's Throne"
both fail to initialize a network game.  The Lan button does nothing when
clicked.  Here is what the console outputs when clicking it:

err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from
apartment threaded to multi-threaded
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub

The recommended correction for directplay problems, from the wiki,
<url>http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectPlayGames?highlight=(directplay)</url>
does not work.  Using the native dplay dlls, creating the dll overrides, and
using regsvr32 to register them etc.

What does work is if you install MS directX 9 using winetricks
<url>http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks</url>

Taking the system32 directory from a wine which has been 'fixed' with DirectX
9, and pasting it into a standard wine install does not correct the issue. 
Even when the overrides are added and all dp* dlls have been reregistered with
regsvr32.  It appears to me that registry keys are added by the official DX9
installer which AoW2 and AoW2SM require.

For testing purposes, the demo of AoWII can be downloaded here:
<url>www.blackfurnace.net/AoW2FinalDemo_RC1.exe</url>

[Bug 14553] Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic, Can not create or join a network game (directplay 8)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

Christopher Lindemann  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Christopher Lindemann   2008-10-25 14:09:49 ---
I was able to get this working.  The dll overrides for the dplay libraries had
to be added to the global portion of wineconfig, not the game only, as I had
been doing.  They also had to be registered at the command line using regsvr32.

I am marking this bug invalid since I have disproved the original problem for
which I created this bug.  Builtin directplay functionality is of course still
broken, but there are other open tickets for this.

[Bug 14553] Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic, Can not create or join a network game (directplay 8)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14553

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-10-25 22:23:27 ---
Closing.