Bully: Scholarship Edition Forum

OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.7
Machine: MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017 aka MacBookPro14,2

So the game installs and runs with default settings... however, the audio is glitched. It plays tiny sections of the music on loop over and over, never any speech, completely bugged, as if there's a buffer problem somewhere. It's using by default the winecoreaudio.drv device.

Any tips would be appreciated. More info available upon request.

Hi,

Try to install xact. It fixed a similar issue with ffx

Since I managed to solve my own issue, here's what I did :-

• Open "Wine Configuration"
• Go to "Libraries" tab
• Under "New override for library" select or type xaudio2_1
• Edit xaudio2_1 setting and change the override to "Native (Windows)
• Click OK, then Apply, then OK.
• Run the game. Sound should be fixed.

Next endeavour is making the game run in a Windows 7 "bottle" so support for silent patch (which uses a version of dinput8.dll not supported by XP, see here for official word by the developer to fix some of the bugs and see about getting 60fps support running in a CrossOver/Wine scenario.

Simone Garzieri wrote:

Hi,

Try to install xact. It fixed a similar issue with ffx

Thank you for the reply. I did this, but until I did the xaudio2_1 fix the problem remained.

HI,

I used to have the same issue with prince of persia the sounds of time, since I had an old ps2 gamepad with adapter I fixed all the joypad compatibility issues. I think you can use some of this tips taken from protondb. I'll post this one maybe can help you for the silent patch: Launcher:
Steam
Downloaded Silent Patch (build 3) and unzipped in game directory. Not sure if it's necessary, but the game is reported to crash often without it.
Game window minimizes after splash screen
Changing the resolution screws up the game window, needs a restart
Intro video doesn't play. Watch it on Youtube to get some context.
Try to find the equivalent of gta ginput for bully for better 360 controller, visit nexus.

Simone Garzieri wrote:

I used to have the same issue with prince of persia the sounds of
time, since I had an old ps2 gamepad with adapter I fixed all the
joypad compatibility issues.

I believe the issue here is that with the regular Bully SE files and Wine's own dinput8.dll the joypad support works, but as Bully SilentPatch (build 3) uses it's own dinput8.dll it's not working with a Wine bottle. Most likely because the abstraction layer needs to come from Wine and the DLL used in Silent Patch has no way of doing this as it expects to be running natively on a full Windows install. I tried setting up Bully SE in a Vista Wine wrapper just in case this miraculously fixed the issue, but of course it doesn't.

So the choices are run the game without silent patch and have gamepad support (I use a wired Xbox 360 controller) or run the game with the silent patch and not have gamepads at all. Or the way I was doing it before, which was use Parallels Desktop with a Windows 7 VM which then gives you SilentPatch, gamepad support, 60fps but is an incredibly inefficient and resource intensive way to do it. 😂

Simone Garzieri wrote:

I think you can use some of this tips taken from protondb. I'll post
this one maybe can help you for the silent patch: Launcher:
Steam
Downloaded Silent Patch (build 3) and unzipped in game directory.
Not sure if it's necessary, but the game is reported to crash often
without it.
Game window minimizes after splash screen
Changing the resolution screws up the game window, needs a restart
Intro video doesn't play. Watch it on Youtube to get some context.
Try to find the equivalent of gta ginput for bully for better 360
controller, visit nexus.

As by default CrossOver uses an XP based Wine bottle it'll likely not crash inside that controlled environment. Intro video I'm not worried about; I've seen it a bunch of times anyway (been playing this since it came out years ago).

What's this about GTA Ginput? Now this is a new factoid I wasn't aware of.

HI,

Okay my bad since canis canem, natively support x360 controller, ginput does not exists. So the silent patcher is your only chance, as far as I can tell the virtual machine is your best shot at the moment...

Simone Garzieri wrote:

HI,

Okay my bad since canis canem, natively support x360 controller,
ginput does not exists. So the silent patcher is your only chance,
as far as I can tell the virtual machine is your best shot at the
moment...

That's okay bud, I appreciate that you're making suggestions. I was able to get a few good patches for use with the Windows 7 VM version of Bully SE I'm running, including the widescreen hack for wider FOV and the Anniversary Edition UI/HUD elements imported pretty easily. Improves the game experience a lot, and I still have the vanilla version running in CrossOver just in case.