Hi! I have tried to install Mass Effect several times on my Thinkpad L520 Notebook with Linux Mint 12 and wine 1.3.35 from the ubuntu-wine ppa. I have two discs, the first DVD installs the game, the second CD patches it to version 1.01a, with some Czech and Hungarian extensions. I guess the first DVD is for version 1.00, but I could't find out. My problem is, even the first installing process fails at the end, after the status bar shows that the installation has finished. A wine windows appears, that a crash has occurred. The last Terminal output is Code: fixme:sxs:cache_QueryAssemblyInfo 0x21f5f0, 0x00000002, L"policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP,type=\"win32-policy\",version=\"8.0.50727.762\",publicKeyToken=\"1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b\",processorArchitecture=\"x86\"", 0x33f988 fixme:msi:ITERATE_RemoveExistingProducts remove L"0" err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcaf904 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 002d, blocked by 0030, retrying (60 sec) wine: Critical section 7bcaf904 wait failed at address 0x7bc349da (thread 002d), starting debugger... Darvon@ThinkPad ~ $ Unhandled exception: wait failed on critical section 0x7bcaf904 in 32-bit code (0x7bc349da). err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x7bc349da err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcaf904 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 002d, blocked by 0030, retrying (60 sec) Unhandled exception: wait failed on critical section 0x7bcaf904 in 32-bit code (0x7bc349da). err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x7bc349da Process of pid=002c has terminated No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Modules:' Cannot get info on module while no process is loaded No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Threads:' process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 0000000c services.exe 00000029 0 00000028 0 0000000e 0 0000000d 0 00000012 explorer.exe 00000013 0 00000025 winedevice.exe 0000002b 0 00000027 0 00000026 0 00000011 winemenubuilder.exe 00000010 0 You must be attached to a process to run this command. No process loaded, cannot execute 'detach' If I try to start the Game with the ".../.wine/me/drive_c/Programme/Mass\ Effect/Binaries/MassEffect.exe", the last output is Code: fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl Unsupported ioctl 70020 (device=7 access=0 func=8 method=0) fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0x16d388, L"C:\\Programme\\Mass Effect\\Binaries\\MassEffect.exe", 0x53eab8) fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x53f50c,0x00000000), stub! fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x10eca7c7 fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null)," "): stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L" "): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000000,(nil),0x0001,0x00000060,0x62e398,0x64adc2): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000000,(nil),0x0001,0x00000060,0x12b338,0x64adc2): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"6" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null)," "): stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L" "): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000000,(nil),0x0001,0x000002cc,0x62e398,0x64ae3a): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000000,(nil),0x0001,0x000002cc,0x12b338,0x64ae3a): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"7" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub If I move on and patch the Game with the CD, it's quite similar. The only difference is, that without the patch, the config tool crashes, too; after the patch it works, but the game won't start either, only the splashscreen appears. I also tried with wine 1.2.3, it didn't work either. What could I do to run the game, either patched or unpatched?
