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So when I try to run the program in a virtual desktop (which is usually a must because of dual-monitors) it launches, but it hangs at black screen with a little silver/grey star in the lower left corner. There is not sound and I have to force quit the bottle to get back to Steam.

When I runt it w/o a virtual desktop I just a full black screen, but I can hear audio and it seems to respond to keyboard input.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

This is a new Steam bottle, but I can confirm that DirectX, .Net 2, 3, and 3.5 are listed as installed.

Could you confirm if the game works fine in your system when you only use one monitor? Then we would know for sure that it's wine's trouble with two monitors that is at fault.

Look like that was it, which is strange, imo, because most of the time running a program in a virtual desktop seems to get around that issue.

Aaron wrote:

Look like that was it, which is strange, imo, because most of the
time running a program in a virtual desktop seems to get around that
issue.

Hi,

Not all apps handle dual-head setups correctly....ie; even though emulated desktop
is set, they still see the combined viewport coords...ie; if you had 2 monitors
with 1680x1050, the app 'sees' 3360x2100 regardless -- iirc, this has to do with
both X and the card drivers, not so much Crossover/Wine.

Cheers!

Ah, I had seen that a lot (3840x1200 in my case) and wasn't sure why. Windows apps never seemed to have a problem with it... :(

...yeah, it's a known issue and a right PITA at times ; I ended up dropping
dualhead off this box because it's such a hassle to deal with -all- the time
...ie; like you point out, emulated virtual desktop does indeed work in most
cases, but there are those apps (quite a number) for which the same is not
true -- some are just plain intolerant of emulated desktop mode too. In my
case as well...believe me it gets really spooky when your two monitors are
standards apart...ie; a 16:10 widescreen & 4:3 displays and you end up with
1680x1050 + 1024x768 with one doing 52Hz and the other 60Hz...this'd be like
in a perfect world wherein you could point an older game at the 4:3 display
fullscreen and widescreen aware apps to your widescreen main display...it's
not a perfect world - the windows drivers/display management dances a whole
different tune compared to how X and the proprietary drivers for linux do it...