Bug Triage: Get Games working

[Molle Bestefich]

Bug 717, status NEW.
http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717

"StarCraft installer can't create icons."

This bug seems fixed in CVS HEAD, the StarCraft installer now creates
icons just fine.

In addition, the game can now switch to fullscreen mode, which leads
to the mouse cursor not "running invisibly out of the game area", so
to speak.  Kudos!

Please close the bug.

What doesn't work: Sound.
I've got kernel 2.6 with 1000Hz timing fidelity on a 2+GHz machine,
and there is an awful scratching noise in every sample.  That goes for
both the Starcraft music (played off the CD) and the sound effects. 
The fullscreen video displays without any hickups, and the problem
occurs even when the game is idle.  So it's definitely not a CPU
problem but a bug in Wine's DirectX audio implementation.

In addition to the scratching noises, all sound effects are cut off
(faded, it even sounds like ??) prematurely.  It's not a lot, but it's
definitely audible that all sound effects are chopped in the end, so
to speak.

What's untested: Multiplayer modes.

9 years since the game has been released, and we're almost there. 
Kudos!  Hehe ;-)

[Molle Bestefich]

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Bug 717, status NEW.
> http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717
>
> "StarCraft installer can't create icons."
>
> This bug seems fixed in CVS HEAD, the StarCraft installer now creates
> icons just fine.

I don't have a Bugzilla login and I can't be bothered to create one
:-), so someone please add this to the bug text:

===============
Bug seems fixed in CVS HEAD, the StarCraft installer now creates icons
just fine.

In addition, the game can now switch correctly to fullscreen mode,
which leads to the mouse cursor not "running invisibly out of the game
area", so to speak.  Kudos!

Music and sound effects work less-than perfect (scratching, premature
end of sample playback).  I haven't tested multiplayer modes.

Bug closed.
===============

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le dimanche 02 octobre 2005 à 14:34 +0000, Molle Bestefich a écrit :
> Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > Bug 717, status NEW.
> > http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717
> >
> > "StarCraft installer can't create icons."
> >
> > This bug seems fixed in CVS HEAD, the StarCraft installer now creates
> > icons just fine.
>
> I don't have a Bugzilla login and I can't be bothered to create one
> :-), so someone please add this to the bug text:
>
> ===============
> Bug seems fixed in CVS HEAD, the StarCraft installer now creates icons
> just fine.
>
> In addition, the game can now switch correctly to fullscreen mode,
> which leads to the mouse cursor not "running invisibly out of the game
> area", so to speak.  Kudos!
>
> Music and sound effects work less-than perfect (scratching, premature
> end of sample playback).  I haven't tested multiplayer modes.
> Bug closed.

Thanks for testing... I added your comments and closed the bug.

As you seem to be motivated into testing/closing bug reports, why don't
you create yourself a bugzilla account and ask Tony Lambregts
 to give you rights to close and modify bugs ?

[Molle Bestefich]

Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> Thanks for testing... I added your comments and closed the bug.

Thanks!
> As you seem to be motivated into testing/closing bug reports, why don't
> you create yourself a bugzilla account and ask Tony Lambregts
> to give you rights to close and modify bugs ?

Hm.  My current mental state is that of loathing Wine's Bugzilla,
searching for bugs in it using Google and otherwise ignoring it's
existence.  And I already have far too many logins for various web
based systems lying around.  But I'll consider going through the login
creation thingy some day, thanks for the pointer :-).