HOMM3 and DirectPlay

[Protomech]

Using a recent build of wine (20011023 and previous) I've gotten
heroes of might and magic 3 working, minus networking :/ After doing
a full install in WINE (with fake windows), attempting to run the game
came up with the 'unable to initialize resources - possible disk
problem'. Examination of the output of wine --debugmsg
+relay,+text,+string Heroes3.exe indicates that the game is looking
for the data files (located in a Data subdirectory) as Datafilename,
rather than Data/filename. After copying the data files to the root
installation directory and prepending 'Data' to the filename, the game
starts and runs correctly. However, networking seems to be broken -
attempting to create a TCP/IP game results in the following error:
DirectPlay Error: 'Unknown Error?' C:\Dev\Heroes 3 Exp
2\Game\remote.cpp Line #1867 and 'locking' of the game.
examination of the output of wine --debugmsg +dplay Heroes3.exe
doesn't reveal anything meaningful - I'll post a link to this output
if it is helpful. What is the status of DirectPlay in wine (HOMM3
uses DirectX 6.1, if that's helpful). What is a good direction to
start in, for looking at what's happening and how to fix it? Using an
updated Debian 2.3 'woody' installation on a k7 box with sufficient
memory, etc.

[gerard patel]

Post by Protomech
Using a recent build of wine (20011023 and previous) I've gotten
heroes of might and magic 3 working, minus networking :/ After doing
a full install in WINE (with fake windows), attempting to run the game
came up with the 'unable to initialize resources - possible disk
problem'. Examination of the output of wine --debugmsg
+relay,+text,+string Heroes3.exe indicates that the game is looking
for the data files (located in a Data subdirectory) as Datafilename,
rather than Data/filename.

I'll be interested to see a -debugmsg +relay,+file,+dosfs, please.

Post by Protomech
After copying the data files to the root
installation directory and prepending 'Data' to the filename, the game
starts and runs correctly. However, networking seems to be broken -
DirectPlay Error: 'Unknown Error?' C:\Dev\Heroes 3 Exp
2\Game\remote.cpp Line #1867 and 'locking' of the game.
examination of the output of wine --debugmsg +dplay Heroes3.exe
doesn't reveal anything meaningful - I'll post a link to this output
if it is helpful. What is the status of DirectPlay in wine (HOMM3
uses DirectX 6.1, if that's helpful). What is a good direction to
start in, for looking at what's happening and how to fix it? Using an
updated Debian 2.3 'woody' installation on a k7 box with sufficient
memory, etc.

It's unclear if it's really a directplay error or a networking error.
If you can post a link to a +relay,+winsock trace instead. I may be
able to find the problem if it's networking (probably not if it's
a directX issue, alas)

Gerard