AppDB: More information about the test environment needed

[Groeschel, Volker]

I just found two conflicting reports for  Age of empires:
   http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10326

Both are on Ubuntu 8.04 and 1.0-rc1. One is Silver, one is Garbage. But
it is just one example.

My suggestion is to ask for more information about the test environment.

To specify it I think it would be helpfull to know the grafics chip/card
and the used driver.

With the new free drivers around the block it could be even more
helpfull to have this information.

The same ATI card e.g. could use Radeon, RadeonHD or the Catalyst
driver.

The same is true for Nvidia with nvidia, nv and Nouveau driver.

I often read that Wine developers recommend nvidia, but I actually have
good experience with radeon.

It is quite hard to get real informaltion on this topic.

[Reece Dunn]

2008/5/29 Groeschel, Volker :
> I just found two conflicting reports for  Age of empires:
>    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10326
>
> Both are on Ubuntu 8.04 and 1.0-rc1. One is Silver, one is Garbage. But it
> is just one example.

Going with AoE, I have recently tried this with the same setup (except
for using 1.0-rc2). I haven't submitted these results yet as I need to
verify them on a clean setup without any "fiddling".

Installation:
I1.  wine /media/cdrom0/aoesetup.exe works, but running the game gives
a "no CD in drive" error;
I2.  wine "d:\aoesetup.exe" also works, and does *not* give a no CD error.

Therefore, you can get it to work without any configuration adjustment
or cracks.

Running:
R1.  wine "c:\program files\...\aoe.exe" causes an error about
failing to detect graphics card (see one of the threads on the forum
for more information);
R2.  cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/... && wine aoe.exe works perfectly;
R3.  wine winefile and then double clicking on aoe.exe also works perfectly.

There is the black text (difficult to read!) bug noted in the test
results comments.

I suspect that the Silver rating is I1+R2 and the Garbage rating is I1+R1.
> My suggestion is to ask for more information about the test environment.
> ...
> It is quite hard to get real informaltion on this topic.

I think that may help in some situations, and would be good for
collecting information for use in bug reports, but I don't know
exactly how useful it will be. In this instance, it *is* possible to
get a good experience from the game, but you need to know the quirks
of that application.

I am going to write up the above once I have verified it on a clean
WINEPREFIX with no fiddling. Therefore, for me I'd rate it Gold, with
the black text on the mission objectives screen being the only thing
preventing it getting Platinum.

- Reece