Hello all. I'd like to report near success with two games I've tested today. I used the latest wine (20040408). 1°) Arcanum ----------- I installed with wine; when I was prompted for the 2nd CD, I couldn't umount the first; so I cancelled the installation (as far as I remember the files were not erased; if they were I must have copied them somewhere before); then I copied the files from the 2nd CD in the arcanum directory; I had to apply a no-cd crack to go around the copy protection. I then started the game; everything went fine (the movies played, I could select a character to play - it's a RPG) Sadly the game is unplayable because on the display it seems that graphics are not updated correctly: tiles are shifted a few pixels randomly, so I never really knew if my character was really standing where I thought he was. However that's very close, and much better than with previous versions of wine. 2°) Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor ------------------------------------------- Another RPG, a bargain at 5 EUR !! I installed with wine; the install was long (about 1h30min) but went well. I applied the patch (it extracted an exe file to /tmp, and I had to launch this exe with wine); then I used a no-cd crack (I had to do it under windows since the crack programs didn't work with wine). I then started the game; the movies played, but very slowly. I interrupted them; the start menu showed up. However the mouse cursor moved rather slowly. I picked up a team, and began the game; it was much faster than when I was at the start menu !! (maybe because the game is in accelerated 3D, whereas the menus are bitmaps). I noticed that every time I brought up a menu, the game slowed. Everything is going fine and fast, except... the characters don't show !! What's strange is that I can see their skeletons (thin white lines looking like a 3-year old drawing of a person), I can move them around or make them act, but I don't see them. Still not perfect, but a big improvement, as this game didn't even start before; out of curiosity I tested it with winex-CVS, but I got an unhandled exception before the game started; however the movies were much faster. Hope this helps. See you. -- Fabrice DELENTE E-mail : fabrice.delente@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
