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Hi,

im trying to play The Settlers 2: Awakening of Cultures on my mac. I installed it form the dvd. and if i lauch it i get a white and a black screen and it stops..
Someone figuerd out how to get it to work or someone has advices?

best regards

Sven wrote:

Hi,

im trying to play The Settlers 2: Awakening of Cultures on my mac. I
installed it form the dvd. and if i lauch it i get a white and a
black screen and it stops..
Someone figuerd out how to get it to work or someone has advices?

best regards

See the forum:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6150;forum=1

Looks like someone else had problems with the DVD version as well.

Hi,

the Topics belogs to settlers 2 gold edition http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_settlers_2_gold_edition

im tring to getting this to work
amazon link
its a remake of the old settlers 2 with new graphiks and fetures

but i see this game is not released in the US so i doubt there is a solution

Sven wrote:

Hi,

the Topics belogs to settlers 2 gold edition
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_settlers_2_gold_edition

im tring to getting this to work
[link=http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001BKVUDE/ref=s9_simz_gw_s0_p63_t1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=00X4CW2Y52Q58JT721SA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463375193&pf_rd_i=301128]amazon
link[/link]
its a remake of the old settlers 2 with new graphiks and fetures

but i see this game is not released in the US so i doubt there is a
solution

Hi,

Although the link cited deals with a different version of this title, it's possible
Ubisoft used the same game engine for the version you have -- if so, the information
would still be applicable.

Also, I see over at WineHQ that other releases of this title on disc_media have some
DRM (disk check protection) as part of their makeup -- especially so for the Mac where
scsi driver limitations usually means such DRM routines usually fail - it's sometimes
not a problem for linux users as linux doesn't suffer from such scsi driver limitations.
You can have a read about this (in relation to another Ubisoft release of this series),
over at WineHQ....see;

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9001

Again, although it's a different release of this title, it's very possible it's using
the same methods of disc_based DRM.

Hope this helps..

Cheers!

oh okay.
i tried the things posted but it doesnt seems to work 😥

Bummer....if you can create a debuglog and hoist it on rapidshare.com
or similar and post back the link here so I can download it and have
a peek, I may spot something of interest...

There are instruction on this site on how to do this...see;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/submittechsupportlog

Cheers!

hi,

thanks i ran the debug and here you can downlaod the file:

http://cid-34443479ae4a81a8.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public

Sven wrote:

hi,

thanks i ran the debug and here you can downlaod the file:

http://cid-34443479ae4a81a8.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public

Do you have directx runtime modern installed into the same bottle?
If not, try that next...

...I've seen an error trace very much like this somewhere (I'm trying
to find the thread..)

Edit: found it...seems related to this issue....see;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/general/?t=25;forumcurPos=350;msg=50270

If things don't improve after/if directx runtime is installed, it looks
like this winebug...see;

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13605

There might not be much you can do about this until it's fixed in wine - you
could however send an email to info@codeweavers.com enquiring about this,
include a link back to this thread, and then the codeweavers devs may get to
know there's a bit of interest in the community about having this looked at.

Cheers!

i think dircetx is installed, because i have an other game in this bottle with runs good. at thge end of the install of that game a message popsup : directx doesnt need to install because its already installed.

but i try it, im donwloading diretx august 2009 at the moment

Hi,

Sometimes native directx dll's are required - this is why there's a
directx install target builtin to crossover-games -- this is very
much app/game specific - some run fine without directx installed, the
rest need native directx stuff.

Be sure to see my edit above...

Cheers!

hi,

thanks for the tips. after installing directx i have a little improvement. without it was blakscreen->whitescreen->crash.
now i have blackscreen->whitescreen with the gamecurser(little gold arrow) for one second.->then in the left upper corner a black square->blackscreen with cursor for one second->crash^^

seems it will not work right? 😥

best regards

Hi,

Umm...you might try a registry tweak to get further here,
but first you will need to indicate the Mac OSX version you're
using and the videocard the machine has installed...let me know.

Cheers!

Also, if you haven't tried enabling 'Emulate a virtual desktop'
in winecfg, please try that as well...

emulate desktop doesnt work.
im on mac os x leopard 10.5.8

i have an nvidia graphikcard with 512mb dont know the model atm. i edit that later :)

edit: its an geforce 8800gt

Sven wrote:

emulate desktop doesnt work.
im on mac os x leopard 10.5.8

i have an nvidia graphikcard with 512mb dont know the model atm. i
edit that later :)

edit: its an geforce 8800gt

Ok...are you any good with regedit? With another title, fellow advocate
abeta was having some luck with the following registry values;

7) Run Regedit (Programs -> Run Command -> Browse -> windows -> Regedit and Select your bottle) and install/change the following keys:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
DirectDrawRender=opengl
UseGLSL=enabled
OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo
RenderTargetLockMode=textex

Cite: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?forum=1;app_id=3768;mhl=70301;msg=65668#msg70301

If you need any help with that, let me know..

Cheers!

hi,

i wanted to add /change this keys, but Direct3D isnt in Wine. Should i create it and add this keys?
here a picture:

http://yfrog.com/j9regjp

Hi,

Yes, you will need create those keys -- an easier way might be to download
this file here...see;

http://rapidshare.com/files/332871112/direct3d.reg.html

Open the downloaded direct3d.reg file in a text editor
Change the lines in the reg file needed and save it
Start regedit->registry->import registry and point at the direct3d.reg
The key values will be added to the registry

Cheers!

hi,

okay i added the keysbut still the same. i made a little video form it and uploaded it:

http://cid-34443479ae4a81a8.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public

I also tried to add sdk.exe to winecfg but no improvement

Hi,

I think that's probably the winebug in question mentioned earlier. The
only thing left to do really, is to try different values/string settings
in the registry keys ... you can read about this here;

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

These keys will be the ones worth playing with;

DirectDrawRenderer
RenderTargetLockMode
OffscreenRenderingMode
UseGLSL

If no amount of changing things has any impact (positive), then it's
probably the end of the road here, and we'll have to wait for improvements
to make themselves into wine in this regard.

Cheers!

Cheers!