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I am having trouble getting the GOG.com version of the game to work. I have tried all of the methods posted.

John Gordon wrote:

I am having trouble getting the GOG.com version of the game to work.
I have tried all of the methods posted.

Hi, we'll like to help but can you be a little more specific with the details?

E.g.
What version of crossover are u using? mac? linux? (which version mountain lion? ubuntu 12.04?) etc
Which bottle did you use?
Where are you stuck at? Did the installation run to completion?

Some additional details will help others figure out what's actually happening and hopefully help you out.

Lester Chua wrote:

Hi, we'll like to help but can you be a little more specific with
the details?

E.g.
What version of crossover are u using? mac? linux? (which version
mountain lion? ubuntu 12.04?) etc
Which bottle did you use?
Where are you stuck at? Did the installation run to completion?

Some additional details will help others figure out what's actually
happening and hopefully help you out.

Crossover 12.2
OSX Mountain Lion
Windows 2000 bottle
Installed fine. The hangup is after the first logo is displayed or the mouse is clicked, whichever happens first. The game staggers and then settles on a black screen. The stagger is a kind of switching back and forth between the desktop and the black game screen.

Hi, that is great info to have. It seems to me that the problem is with the media player. If I have to guess you are probably in the full screen mode.

Can you try this? Change the bottle settings to display in virtual desktop or windows mode. Set it to 1024x768 size. And change your game configuration accordingly. See if it works. I don't have a gog copy so I can't try it out.

I hope it can work in virtual desktop/windows mode because I recalled having an issue like this too in the past. I think the bink player acts up in some of the previous versions in full screen mode.

Let me know if it helps.

Did you add the MFC42.DLL as described at WineHQ?

Also this thread is still relevant despite being fairly old.

Applying both those tips made Wizardry 8 run almost flawlessly on my machine.

The only tip I had to follow to get this working great in Crossover 13.0 was to manually edit the graphics configuration to be OpenGL. Then everything was flawless.