Aquaria Demo - Linux & Wine (good news!)

[realyst]

I tried a few things myself on my un-accelerated box(see if I could get past activation).  I tried the unicode url format%c3%a9 , the escape character \

[luciferin]

Well, I'm not having a problem with a foreign character..  My name and key code are all regular characters (Christopher).  The screen just refreshes without activating.  I've copy and pasted from Firefox, I've typed it in by hand, nothing works.  It's very strange since some people reported it working without any trouble..

[thechef]

Oh I didn't check the forum yet. Did you check the wine appdb? I made an entry there.

http://www.zaphire.ca/aqpatch/aquaria-dialog.zip
That's the patch from Alec, that allowed me to enter the registration and activate Aquaria. It doesn't require MSHTML/gecko.

It runs perfectly fine. Couldn't get any better.

[luciferin]

!!! That fixed it   I've been hanging out on this forum looking for a solution; never thought to go to WineHQ :/

Thank you Alec for rewriting the activation.  Thank you thechef for posting here with the information.

[theSamo]

yea, demo definetly worked out of the box for me.

For people having flicker problems i recommend turning compiz off. (metacity --replace)

[Alec]

group hug

That's an awesome screen too.

[Plaid Phantom]

Make sure you selected Full screen in the Aquaria settings.  Otherwise, try playing around with winecfg under the graphics tab.  Select the "Allow window manager to manage windows" radio.

Both were selected.  I did find these lines in the console as Wine started:

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err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found(1024x768x32)! (XRandR)
err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful -- perhaps display has changed?
Running xrandr does show a 1024x768 resolution (and it's listed in xorg.conf), so I'm guessing something's wrong in my xorg.conf relating to color depth? In the Screen section a line says "DefaultDepth 24", but nothing else mentions color depth.

I guess it really isn't a problem, since Aquaria itself runs perfectly in a window.  It just breaks the immersion a little bit.

[realyst]

Wicked awesome screeny:)

[luciferin]

Both were selected.  I did find these lines in the console as Wine started:

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err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found(1024x768x32)! (XRandR)
xrerr:andr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful -- perhaps display has changed?
Running xrandr does show a 1024x768 resolution (and it's listed in xorg.conf), so I'm guessing something's wrong in my xorg.conf relating to color depth? In the Screen section a line says "DefaultDepth 24", but nothing else mentions color depth.

I guess it really isn't a problem, since Aquaria itself runs perfectly in a window.  It just breaks the immersion a little bit.

Hmm, I had this exact problem when trying to run FF8 and Diablo II under Wine a few months ago.  I'm pretty sure it is an error with your xorg.conf (that or a bug in xrandr/xorg).  What version of x.org are you running?  And if you're running Compiz disable it before launch, it often causes problems with OpenGL apps.

[wesley]

Thanks for the small patch, Alec!

About the flickering: you have either a rather old ATI graphics card, or you use a really new ATI graphics driver, or you have an Intel onboard graphics card. They all use the FreeDesktop AIGLX implementation, and there are still some unresolved OpenGL and XVideo issues that haven't been fixed yet for 100%. Please note that Xgl (some ATI users can use this with the fglrx driver) does not have this problem and that NVidia uses a different AIGLX implementation that's even way better than everything mentioned before.

Oh, also note that the AIGLX problems will be solved. There are already some patches floating around, but none have been accepted, tested and implemented yet by the core developers.. That takes some time.. if we're lucky it should all work perfectly well somewhere in the first quarter of 2008. Let's just hope that the patches don't absorb OpenGL performance (f.e. NVidia's AIGLX implementation takes care of that pretty well.. good work of them)

[EntiteFred]

Mmmm... it works well with the patch to do it without gecko, but the game just won't run under wine for me with the newest patches.  Is there a way to have a latest patched .exe with the latest bugfixes included ?  You know, a way to just "combine" the patches.

[Alec]

The next patches will use the simpler interface that doesn't cause problems.

[EntiteFred]

nice, then I will just wait a bit for it. 

[EntiteFred]

Got a problem.  Aquaria load (full version, I entered my key), but it get stuck on the loading screen then crashes.  Here is my wine output:

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fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x48,4,0x3cb628): stub
fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x54,4,0x3cb628): stub
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000409", 0080: stub!
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"0c0c0c0c", 0001: stub!
fixme:wgl:X11DRV_wglChoosePixelFormatARB unused pfAttribFList
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000003 flags 0 addr 0x7b840d83
I managed to run it correctly only one time.  Since then, I tried this: I reinstalled aquaria a couple of times, I reinstalled wine completly (deleting .wine, etc).  All without success.  I also used the last patch, which was ok to let me enter my username and code, but still crashes while loading (loading bar load really quickly at first (and I mean so fast that it is clear that there is a problem), then wine freeze for sometime and crashes).

The only clue I have is that it may be related to adding data.001, since the only time it worked was without it added.  Maybe I need to install something in wine prior to Aquaria ?  I really don't know.  By the way, I had this error both with wine 0.9.50 and wine 0.9.51

[Alec]

Do you have 1.0.3?