Sins of a Solar Empire Forum

When I click install on this mounted ISO it starts and spins with a black screen (that you cannot move or bring to front)... This is as far as I have gotten..any ideas?

I used Crossover Pro 8.0.1

15" Macbook Pro (Unibody)
Snow Leopard 10.6.1
2.53GHz Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR3 1066MHz
512MB Nvidia 9600M GT
320GB Hard Drive

I think if I were you, I'd download the latest crossover-games 8.0,
and give it a try with that version of crossover - if you've got
crossover pro, you can use your same credentials to register the
version of crossover-games you download/install. Just go to the
downloads like on your account page - crossover pro and games can
be installed side by side no problem. It's what I'd try first ;)

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

I think if I were you, I'd download the latest crossover-games 8.0,

and give it a try with that version of crossover - if you've got
crossover pro, you can use your same credentials to register the
version of crossover-games you download/install. Just go to the
downloads like on your account page - crossover pro and games can
be installed side by side no problem. It's what I'd try first ;)

I did this and it doesn’t, I still get the same.

Posted:

I did this and it doesn’t, I still get the same.

And I suppose you've read the info here ;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=4030;forum=1;msg=41891

and...

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=4030;tips=1

....?...at any rate, I can download the demo and let my penguin have at it - even
though I'm using linux, I might see something of note...hopefully it'll explode in
my face in exactly the same way, and I might be able to work out why...

I actually found 2 demos of this game, one called 'sins of a solar empire UK demo kalypso'
and the other 'sins of a solar empire demo' -- I download the first of these and gave it a go...

'sins of a solar empire UK demo kalypso' tries to install, but at about 75% of progress bar,
the -installer- has some undefined internal error and bails. Funnily enough, checking inside
the bottle itself, -most- (but possibly not -all-) of the files have been copied into place,
and although things died along the way, I decided to try run what was there....which tries to
run but then hits a brick wall with 'file not found' errors and slowly is dies a natural death...

I'll download the other demo today and see what happens there...

Edit: The other demo does roughly the same thing during install, although this time I was
hit with one of those rare and perplexing windows from the installer, saying that it had
failed with error blabla, and under that a tick-box (which is checked) proclaiming 'Run
Application'....of course, it doesn't....

However, if you use cxsetup=>configure=>control panel=>run and manually launch the game
executable, it does start up and swing into the intro movie business. After that, I was
left with a mostly white window with version number in the corner...and sound...then I
suddenly realized I was actually looking at the game's main menu...even though I couldn't
see it....I played with the cursor keys a bit and hit enter and it crashed...or maybe I
just selected quit game but don't know that because I can't see anything...

It definitely needs d3d9_36.dll but that's all I've discovered this far, except for
crashes all ending with a "fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open"...

Edit: Needs Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 redist. installed into same bottle (adding this
to the bottle get the slowly rotating planet appear in the menu-screen)....actually, I've
discovered adding Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 gets the planet, adding Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
adds other things -- putting Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 in the same bottle results in a
menu screen white-out and you see nada....(reinstalling ;)....

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

It definitely needs d3d9_36.dll but that's all I've discovered this
far, except for
crashes all ending with a "fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while
ll-driver open"...

Edit: Needs Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 redist. installed into same
bottle (adding this
to the bottle get the slowly rotating planet appear in the
menu-screen)....actually, I've
discovered adding Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 gets the planet, adding
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
adds other things -- putting Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 in the same
bottle results in a
menu screen white-out and you see nada....(reinstalling ;)....

Note This below is with =linux= and crossover-games 8.0 **

...Okay, after a bit of stick-poking, I managed to learn enough to get 'Sins of a Solar Empire Demo.exe'
installing properly....and actually seems to run pretty good as well -- here's what I did, in the order
I used (incase order was important)...

1. Start cxsetup=>Manage bottles tab=>create a new bottle (give it a name) using the winxp profile

2. Once bottle creation has completed, click on the Add/Remove tab =>highlight this new bottle=>configure=>control panel=>winecfg

3. Click on the Graphics tab in the winecfg GUI, and set 'Emulate a virtual desktop' ON, click on Apply=>Ok=>Ok

4. Highlight the same bottle again, and click on Install software=>click Show all service packs and dependencies

5. Install the following service packs/deps in this order ;

   Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable
   Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
   Microsoft Directx Runtime Modern

6. In the Add/Remove window of cxsetup, highlight the same bottle again, and click on 'Install fonts'
   to install the core font set.

7. Finally, with the bottle still highlighted, click on 'Install software' => 'Install other game',
   point it to the executable installer for Sine of a Solar Empire --- the (demo) installer now
   completes correctly, and the game starts and runs (quite well)...

I am of course unsure if this solution holds true for the Mac, but it certainly worked in the
linux case .... good luck!