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Hi,

I've created a dot_tie for this -- I had to wrestle a bit wrt window manager decorations and management to find a 'sweet spot' between balancing look&feel with actual functionality on both platforms (it behaves a little differently on my iMac than the linux boxes) and I ended up with decorated=y and managed=n (which is likely some sort of weird no-op ;) -- but it is mostly working like this and you can download/run/install games etc etc...

It's not perfect though, so expect so strange window behavior ; it's probably somewhere between bronze and silver ranking, but as it works I'll err towards silver =)

Note: you will get a worse look but it may behave a tad better with decorated=y and managed=y set in the Wine Configuration graphics tab ; experimentation will be the key here.

Cheers!

Can you please help me with a guide to install this? I'm having some trouble.

Hi there,

Sure....do this ;

Create a new winxp bottle, and into that install the following;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6458

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8227

Now, install the Impulse client itself, but don't start it yet, just
install it, then install .NET 2.0 into the same bottle ;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1578

After that finishes, you should be able to start Impulse and have it work.

Cheers!

I thought you'd like to know that I found one Impulse game (Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate, app_id=8849) that doesn't capture keyboard events if managed=n.

Impulse installs fine, but it still crashes at launch, the same as it does with Wineskin.

Clocknova wrote:

Impulse installs fine, but it still crashes at launch, the same as
it does with Wineskin.

...dang & blast, thanks for the heads-up! Was working okay for us here, but just checking
one of my 'parked' user accounts, it seems StarDock have released an update to the Impulse
client, which effectively breaks it again with crossover/wine :^/

...{sigh}... I did suspect this would happen, the StarDock folks have been saying all along
that the Impulse client is still in development and subject to change. Impulse now seems to
reliably crash on a .NET call like this below;

trace:loaddll:load_native_dll Loaded L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\DW\\1033\\dwintl20.dll" at 0x318a0000: native
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting"): stub                                                  
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00001388,(nil),0x000b,0x000000fa,0x3009a1b4,0x5dc654): stub                     
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"clr20r3"                                                                                                  
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"impulse.exe"                                                                                              
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"3.15.4106.22676"                                                                                          
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"4d936a38"                                                                                                 
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"gibraltar.agent"                                                                                          
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"2.5.2.0"                                                                                                  
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"4d0e3510"                                                                                                 
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"1faf"                                                                                                     
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"77"                                                                                                       
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"system.typeloadexception"                                                                                 
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL"                                                                                                      
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub                                                                                  
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded                  
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded                  
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETMARGINS: stub                                                                                   
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETMARGINS: stub                                                                                   
err:ole:CoUninitialize Mismatched CoUninitialize                                                                                      
err:ole:CoUninitialize Mismatched CoUninitialize                                                                                      

Unhandled Exception: trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\DW\\1033\\dwintl20.dll" : native
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"mscorlib.resources"                                                                        
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"mscorlib.resources"                                                                        
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.DateTimeOffset' from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.
   at Gibraltar.Monitor.Log.OnInitialize(Boolean suppressTraceInitialize)                                                             
   at Gibraltar.Monitor.Log.Initialize(Boolean suppressTraceInitialize)                                                               
   at Gibraltar.Monitor.Log.StartSession(IMessageSourceProvider sourceProvider, String reason)                                        
   at Gibraltar.Monitor.Log.StartSession(Int32 skipFrames, String reason)                                                             
   at Gibraltar.Agent.Log.StartSession()                                                                                              
   at Stardock.Central.Client.Program.Main(String[] args)                                                                             
wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434f4d at address 0x7b838542 (thread 001e), starting debugger...

As the Impulse requirements only state a need for .NET 2.0 to run, I would need to suspect
this may have something to do with the fact crossover/wine does not yet support the things
in .NET 2.0 SP1/SP2 ... else it's some other .NET problem (or version required) which we
can't currently deal with -- adding .NET 3.0 to the bottle didn't seem to help any...

Looks like Impulse now slides to 'Known not to work' due to the client update :(

Cheers!