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[volker10]

Good news for the *nix community

VPinball991 works with Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and wine development release 1.7.30

 

DMD issue
The DMD is opened as a separate window, which I havent managed to show during full-screen gameplay yet.
When I ALT-TAB the DMD to the front, the playfield gets inactivated.
Changing the Video Options to windowed mode works, even with overlapping DMD.

 

This is how I got it working

• first tried with wine 1.6.2 stable, which did not work
• The VpinMAME setup kept showing *Visual PinMAME is not currently installed on your computer*
• upgraded to wine 1.7.30 after reading the short changelog on winehq.org including directx and AMD/NVIDIA graphic driver updates.
• Downloaded new Release VPinball991 Standalone exe

I had to uninstall VpinMAME first and reinstall it with new wine version. It now shows *Visual PinMAME Version 3.00 is currently installed on your computer*


wine debugging
When starting wine 1.6.2 via commandline I found out that a registry key had to be added manually.
volker@14pin:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Visual Pinball/VPinMame$ wine setup.exe

click on "Install" reported:
fixme:ddraw:DirectDrawEnumerateExA flags 0x00000003 not handled
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32d358,0x00000000), stub!

Solution found on appdb.winehq
Type wine regedit in a terminal.
Then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Wine / Direct3D or create it if it doesn't exist.
Now you have to add two new keys.DirectDrawRenderer with the string value opengl and VideoMemorySize with the string value of you graphic memory size, for example 512 or 256.
I entered 1024 as value.

 

This is probably independent of the wine release, but I am not sure. Try without editing registry first.

 

To change the size of the DMD, „show window title“ has to be set. If you remove this setting after resizing the window, it falls back to original size – so leave it on.

tables tested - working
Fish Tales, Terminator 2, Indiana Jones, Funhouse, Back to the Future, LOTR_VP91x_2.4WSHR,

Tales from the Crypt, Star Wars
music stops after few seconds, game sounds are there fully, just not the background music, beside that its fully playable


tables tested - not working
Lord of the Rings LOTR_VP91x_2.4
Tales of the Arabian Night TOTAN_VP91x_3.4_Classic
The Addams Family VP91x2.0
Demolition Man v1.05_Final

 

cheerio, volker

Edited by volker10, 07 November 2014 - 10:22 AM.

[TedB]

Awesome!