Daniel Skorka wrote: > Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I just tried to install an ancient detective-type RPG ( I am not up with >> the classifications.) > > What's it called? Did you have a look at the appdb? > >> (a) It offered to install DirectX. Since Wine has its own DirectX, I >> ignored that. > > Correct. > >> (b) The game failed to run because (according to the message box) it >> couldn't find DirectDraw. This showed as a Fixme in the terminal, while >> the error message was to do with the display settings - there was no mode >> matching what the game required. >> >> Where do I find DirectDraw? > > It comes with wine alright. The message box is misleading. Can you post > the messages when you start the game? > > Daniel The game is called "The Last Express", by Broderbund. It is a multiple ending "Choose Your Own Adventure" style game set on the Orient Express shortly before World War I. The player has to contact a passenger on the train. I couldn't see it in either Wine's or Fred's appdb. I bought it as a runout special at a local supermarket. On a reinstall, I get the following in a terminal: fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x7eaf9b00)->(0x10028,00000008) fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x7eaf9b00)->(0x10028,00000013) err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode) err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode) I tried changing my monitor resolution from 24 bit to 16 bit, but it apparently wasn't recognized. Doug. -- A Lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - G.B. Shaw. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
