OS X Port using wine

posted on February 16th, 2011, 3:54 am

I'm rooting for ya!  Got a friend with a mac, I think I can get him into flops if you can lay out the steps clearly for him to use 

posted on February 16th, 2011, 8:18 pm

Thanks for the support at the moment I keep getting a
exception class  : EAccessViolation
exception message : Access violation at address 00621625 in module 'Armada2.exe'. Read of address 00000000.

error report when I try to run it but I will keep trying

posted on February 20th, 2011, 7:42 pm

Ok I'm really stumped anybody know what that error might mean?

posted on February 21st, 2011, 6:25 am

Thanks for the support at the moment I keep getting a
exception class   : EAccessViolation
exception message : Access violation at address 00621625 in module 'Armada2.exe'. Read of address 00000000.

error report when I try to run it but I will keep trying

I'm not sure to be honest, It could be something to do with Drivers available in Wine. Or Drivers on the Mac system, More likely it's an issue with Wine. Go through what is enabled in wine by checking winecfg and clicking the libaries tab and see what DLL's are enabled

posted on February 21st, 2011, 8:45 pm

Ok thanks. I will also try recreating your working version in ubuntu that way I can compare the differences and see what might be the problem

posted on February 22nd, 2011, 1:22 am

Sounds good, Keep me posted on what's going on.

posted on February 23rd, 2011, 12:21 am

Well, from the exception, it looks like it's trying to access either a NULL (empty) block of memory or a protected block of memory. This could be an issue with the internal structure of Wine and/or Armada2.exe. I might try "switching off" the new loader used in 3.1.4. Look here for instructions on how to do that.

[Megadroid]

posted on February 23rd, 2011, 12:29 am

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It seems to be an error when creating render targets. Might want to check your graphics settings and whatever D3D wrapper you are using.

posted on February 23rd, 2011, 5:52 am

@Atlantisbase: I already had the internal loader turned off. It wouldn't even start up if i try using the new loader. I have tried the regular armada and a cracked version.

@Megadroid I will try using the different versions of DirectX thanks

posted on February 25th, 2011, 12:23 pm

any progress ?

posted on February 26th, 2011, 8:34 am

Not so far but haven't tried all the settings yet... takes a while to try each one and have had to get some work done last couple days... but don't worry I do not believe it is futile.

posted on February 26th, 2011, 6:07 pm

Not so far but haven't tried all the settings yet... takes a while to try each one and have had to get some work done last couple days... but don't worry I do not believe it is futile.

There is a short term problem that I forgot to mention. Tunngle is a no atm.

Regardless of Wine or Virtual Machine unfortunately

[Anonymous]

posted on February 27th, 2011, 9:44 am

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Interestingly I decided to play around with VirtualBox and I managed to get the Tunngle client to connect to the network, I think I may test installing Flops and messing with it and seeing what performance I can get. That would truly make FLops Cross platform.

[Anonymous]

posted on February 27th, 2011, 6:31 pm

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Well I messed around with VirtualBox, Got Flops to install as well as Tunngle, basically loaded up multiplayer hosted a 4 way Merciless AI game to stress test for client side lag over the virtual machine. Ran pretty ok to be honest.

Only downside is that I was limited to 1280x960 but with decent performance running Flops in the virtual machine with tunngle working isn't bad.

posted on March 1st, 2011, 11:12 pm

What OS were you running in virtual box?