Grand Prix Legends / WINE / VNC?

Hi folks, 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 -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

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

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.

Yeah, I agree. -- "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:40f2e7a6$1$39763$[email hidden]... > "Uwe Sch�rkamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > 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 have set the renderer to softdll.dll in the ini file, switched > > fullscreen mode off, but when I try to run GPL like this: > > > 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. > >

a bit OT: how do you set up your controller under linux/wine? 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.

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:35:54 +0200, none wrote: > a bit OT: how do you set up your controller under linux/wine? > > 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. > 13 Axes might in fact be correct, as most of the coolie hat buttons are handled as up/down digital axes in the widest sense of the word, so just assign those "axes" to the buttons on the coolie hat. cheers, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61