FO under wine: Ship Voice Related Crash

[DOCa Cola]

posted on January 15th, 2010, 3:20 am

Last edited by DOCa Cola on January 15th, 2010, 10:55 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hi,

I posted a while back about FO not working with my Mac and Crossover. Well, 3.10 fixed that. I can now play FO and it runs beautifully. There is a caveat to that however. I have to play with ship voices disabled, otherwise the game crashes whenever I select a ship. To make matters more interesting, it appears only to be certain ships/voices. For example, playing as the federation I can move the venture all around the map, but as soon as I select a construction ship - crash. As the klingons, I can select and move the construction ships, but as soon as I tell them to actually build something - crash. Tried reinstalling and installing straight from CD, no difference. Tried using different numbers of audio channels - no difference. Unfortunately given my operation system I can't produce a crash-file and there is no error message displayed.

Anyone have any thoughts? I'm enjoying the game now but ironing this issue out would make it perfect.

Thanks

[DOCa Cola]

posted on January 15th, 2010, 8:50 am

Last edited by DOCa Cola on January 15th, 2010, 10:56 am, edited 1 time in total.

Welcome back!
quite interesting.
open crossover. opten the 'configure' menu and select 'manage bottles'. select your fleet operations bottle. click on the 'advanced' tab, then click 'open c: drive in finder'.


from there navigate to  windows/profiles/crossover/Application Data/Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations/Logs/.

you should find a file named exceptArmada2.txt. please attach it as a file to this thread

posted on January 15th, 2010, 1:28 pm

I have similar crash problem with wine and fo in my linux system. I have sent a bug report in email, because for some reason I can't attach it.

[DOCa Cola]

posted on January 15th, 2010, 1:41 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on January 15th, 2010, 1:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

thanks for posting. got your report via mail, zebh. this may help to find a bug i am looking for a while that seems also to affect some (real) windows systems.
i will later do some tests with wine myself

edit: i just took a look in the debug log and saw that there are some serious parsing errors in a file requesting wave files. now either that could be related to corruption in memory or really a bad file. that requires more investigation, but i guess that causes the whole issue, as i had not noticed such problems with older fleet operations versions under wine. seems that wine is more prone to such memory errors which in this case is clearly a good thing

posted on January 19th, 2010, 7:34 pm

i just want to point out that the wine sound errors are not fixed with the 3.1.1 patch. this seems to be more a wine issue with the winmm implementation of theirs, as some of the wave files refuse to load. i am not sure if we can fix that

posted on January 19th, 2010, 8:06 pm

These problems begun with the new (3.1) patch, I didn't notice any with 3.0.7. Could it be possible that one of the sound files is bad?

[DOCa Cola]

posted on January 19th, 2010, 8:47 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on January 19th, 2010, 8:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

yes, some of the sound files seem to be affected. i am not sure why, maybe something has changed in wine and not fleet operations. i didn't have had time for extensive tests yet.
thanks, i will try to compare 3.0.7 and the current version
edit: i forgot that i actually tried with 3.0.7, too and got exactly the same issue

posted on January 19th, 2010, 9:07 pm

Ok, odd that I didn't notice it. I guess that I will have to reboot to windows to play.