rec.autos.simulators

I have been trying to get GPL to run on a hosted SuSE box with a local
provider without much luck, and I thought maybe someone can point me
in the right direction.

I'm using a rather new wine build (installed from binary RPM for SuSE
8.1, 200406xx I believe), and for instance Replay analyzer works
great.

I have set the renderer to softdll.dll in the ini file, switched
fullscreen mode off, but when I try to run GPL like this:

wine 'c:\sierra\gpl\gpl.exe'

I get the following error:

fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x40407e68)->(00010022,00000011)
err:module:import_dll Library redline.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\sierra\\gpl\\renddll.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library verite.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\sierra\\gpl\\renddll.dll") not found
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4040a448)->(00010022,00000011)

GPL runs fine at home on my gentoo box using the opengl renderer, so I
wonder if this might be related to trying run wine through VNC; as
I've said, replay analyzer and other software runs great in this
setup.

All the best & thanks in advance for any ideas,

uwe

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Two things here could be the problem, probably both. gpl doesn't like
running in software mode in a window (OpenGL is okay though of course),
and ime VNC isn't that good at handling 3D (software or hardware)  in a
window, on windows at least.

Suggest you set the desktop to 640x480 & run gpl in software mode
full-screen. Wine aside, I ran my first race server like this without a
monitor, keyboard or mouse. The framerate was crappy as hell as you'd
expect, but you could see the replay window & everything ;-)

Also, if you run as a dedicated server it won't have to draw the replay
window, you just see static. Might give your install one less thing to
worry about ;-)

Malc.

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i have ms sidewinder ff wheel and under linux jscal detects 13(!!!) axes
and in GPL it only detects wheel and accelerator movement but no brake
pedal movement. i tried playing with jscalibrator but without success.

i'm using gentoo linux.

thank you,

b.

cheers,

uwe

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