Blade of darkness

• PlayOnLinux 4.2.2-dev
  • Tested with Wine 1.4.1
  • Install path GOG Games/Blade of Darkness/
  • Shortcuts:
    • Blade of Darkness ["Bin/Blade.exe" ]
    • Readme ["Docs/Readme.txt" ]
    • Manual ["Blade of Darkness - Manual.pdf" ]
    • nGlide settings ["Bin/nglide_config.exe" ]
  • Start with default renderer (r3Dfx Voodoo 1-2) => Black screen
    • rOpenGL => crash
    • So far, the game has been true to its name :p
    • Problem is with the playback of the intro .mpg video
      • devenum, quartz, ffdshow, now get sound but no visual
      • tweak ffdshow: POL_Wine rundll32.exe ffdshow.ax,configure
      • finally got it working by using gdi renderer, but this is probably not practical
      • Also works by downgrading to 1.3.27
      • 1.3.28: stuck?
      • 1.3.29, 1.3.30, 1.3.32: black screen
  • can use rOpenGL on nVidia by disabling the GL_KTX_buffer_region extension (thanks to the AppDB)
    • Performance is really good, some 2D gfx (loading screen,...) are missing though (only the progress bar shows up)
  • while overwriting a game: MEMORY_BAD_POINTER (and quit)
  • WineHQ "Mouse bug fixed in wine 1.5.1" http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10295
    • Not experienced (yet)

Debug:

err:dplay:DP_InitializeDPSP DP SP Initialization failed: DPERR_UNAVAILABLE
err:dplay:DirectPlayCreate Failed to Initialize SP: DPERR_UNAVAILABLE
fixme:dplay:DPWSCB_ShutdownEx (0x135940) stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3395a8,0x00000000), stub!
err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found
fixme:quartz:Parser_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.

Make rOpenGL the default (Blade.config):

-0000000: 0700 0000 0400 0000 0100 0000            ............
+0000000: 0700 0000 0500 0000 0100 0000            ............