My first game on Linux....

posted on March 26th, 2009, 6:57 pm

Well, I'm not a heavy Nix user....I used it at school to code with, but I found better text editors for windows and just remotely compiled progs.  But in an effort to learn more, I installed a few different distros until I found one that was a good mix of CLI and GUI....you guessed it...Ubuntu.  Anyhoo....I'm currently going through the installation process just bored and wanted to know if anyone had any problems getting it to run?  I'll update this in like 10 mins or so to let you guys know how it went.

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:10 pm

Use Wine 1.17. Works with Aramada 2, havent tried it with FO, but I can't see why it shouldn't.

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:11 pm

Well Armada2 and FO both installed w/o a hitch.  Stock A2 ran perfectly.  FleetOps seems to just try to open then shutdown with WINE.  Anyone else play FO on nix?

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:16 pm

Hm... search for any log, try to find out, if Wine or just FO crashes. Read the log, if one exists and watch out for fatal errors.

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:37 pm

I'm not that great w/ hex code...this is what the log told me

//
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f00),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f02),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f01),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f8a),stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f090,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f00),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f02),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f01),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor ((nil),00007f8a),stub!
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x006af9c8 at address 0x7bc46344 (thread 0017), starting debugger...
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7bc46344
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0xf7f8ce6d
//

any ideas what is trying to be written at that address which causes the page fault?

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:48 pm

Search is your friend
Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - FO 3.0.5 on Linux Mandriva

posted on March 26th, 2009, 7:51 pm

Yes, I'm aware....I started the topic out of boredom......not out of laziness.  TY all the same though

posted on March 27th, 2009, 11:59 am

usually switching from the build-in d3d8.dll library to native mode is the way to go for fleet operations with wine

posted on September 10th, 2009, 10:02 am

  I tried to run the game on Ubuntu 9.04 with the latest version of Wine, but without success. The game won't even start. No crash, no error, nothing. I tried the d3d8.dll thing, the same. Is anyone else running the game on Linux ?

posted on September 10th, 2009, 12:54 pm

Strange. I have no problems with fleetops with Wine 1.1.23.

[Anonymous]

posted on September 11th, 2009, 5:53 am

Last edited by Anonymous on September 14th, 2009, 7:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

  Fixed... sort of. I was missing a dll, now the game starts but I can't see the lower buttons, "back" and "start", so I can't start a game or save the settings. After I stop the game (from system monitor) the desktop resolutions remains at 800x600. Any ideas ?