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I was getting a black screen when starting SPAZ. I threw this script into the SPAZ folder (the folder with SpazGame.exe) and ran it via the Programs -> Run Command… menu.

This does NOT solve the low framerate issues, just the black screen issue.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 3 && xgamma -gamma 1.0 &
/Applications/CrossOver\ Games.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/bin/wine --bottle "Steam" --cx-app SpazGame.exe
sleep 1
xgamma -gamma 1.0

EDIT:
Note that you'll want to make this script a text file and will likely need to chmod 755 <name of file> to let it run.

Duncan Harris wrote:

I was getting a black screen when starting SPAZ. I threw this script
into the SPAZ folder (the folder with SpazGame.exe) and ran it via
the Programs -> Run Command… menu.

This does NOT solve the low framerate issues, just the black screen
issue.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 3 && xgamma -gamma 1.0 &
/Applications/CrossOver\ Games.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/bin/wine --bottle "Steam" --cx-app SpazGame.exe
sleep 1
xgamma -gamma 1.0

> EDIT:  
> Note that you'll want to make this script a text file and will
> likely need to chmod 755 <name of file> to let it run.

Hi,

  ..yeah, this bug is actually fixed in wine-devel as of...hmmm..  
wine-1.3.23 or such, but it is fixed (it was common to many games  
built on the torque engine 1 or whatever it's called)... so that's  
likely to roll into crossover next and fix this issue...

...  watch -n 5 xgamma -gamma 1,0  ..in a shell also works, ^C when  
finished. In linux the only way to get it near playable, is to bind  
spax.exe to a single CPU core..but even then framerate is all wonky..

Cheers!