Re: Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:16:13 pm MRH wrote:
> I don't play games much, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to.
> I have a problem with Diablo II Lord of Destruction (expansion pack)
> game. It works fine in DirectDraw 2D mode but is not so 'shiny', it
> looks much better in Direct3D. When I set it up to run in 3D HAL mode it
> starts OK, but then after intro the whole screen goes white. When it's
> run in window I can quit but if it's full screen mode nautilus hangs and
> my desktop is all blank - have to manually delete metacity saved session
> files. Moreover, in windowed run it seems to be changing the whole
> colour palette - all windows colours are very pale.
>
> I use Debian Sid on AMD64, nvidia drivers (proprietary - to get 3D
> working), Gnome.
> I looked at winehq, but the game is described as working. Any hints?
>
> Not sure if it helps, but on exit it returns the following errors (cut
> to the relevant part I think):
>...
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from
> 32 to 16
> ...
That line sounds like where the problem lies. You might consider running in 16
bit color as opposed to 32 bit.
...Rob
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