Love through Wine .. on Linux and Mac

[TTimo]

While I hope and wait for a native version of Love for Mac and Linux, I decided to spend some time trying to get it working under Wine.

It started up fine on my Macbook Pro (with the latest wine installed from fink), but even in the low end mode the fps is too low to be realistically usable.

My Linux install is a Debian Sid 64 bit. I compile Wine myself, and I'm currently running 1.1.41 .. I play EvE quite a bit under that setup and it's stable.

Love however, starts up and shows the splash screen, then exits. The symptoms are the same as the ones reported in this thread which seems to be readonly (at least for me).

The WineHQ site doesn't have an entry for Love in the AppDB yet, and I'd like to gather some more info before getting one up there. If you're having success/bad luck please post your basic distro / hardware / specific problem..

[Amagineer]

I found the solution, it was exactly what VariousArtists had suggested. I needed to use the Esound sound driver instead of ALSA or whatever else. If I recall correctly, I had to set up PulseAudio to get Wine to detect Esound.

I'm using Arch (64 bit) as my distro.
My MoBo is an Asus M3A, and my CPU is an AMD Phenom 9500
4 Gigs of Ram
And my graphics card is an NVidia 8600 Gt
I'm using the onboard soundcard.

[TTimo]

I dug a bit deeper into those recommendations, and I believe recent Wine releases (1.1.x) have removed esound support .. which makes sense as esd has been deprecated for some years in Linux .. what version of Wine are you running?

[edit]
I think you are right on PulseAudio though, it looks like love expects the sound device to mix from multiple source at driver level, which is often a problem on Linux unless you have an emu10k or a software solution like PA instead of just a crappy onboard sound chip..
[/edit]

[Amagineer]

I'm running wine 1.1.41. I'm pretty sure esd support hasn't been discontinued seeing as I have an "EsounD" option in winecfg. I did however have to install the 32 bit Esound library before wine would see it.

[TTimo]

Worked with another guy more familiar with Wine on the problem.

Took a while to get esound working .. I have 32 bit libesd, I was passing --with-esd to the configure script correctly etc. But it turned out I have to run esd from a terminal to see the option .. and in most cases I have to restart it between attempts.

Now I'm wondering ... is the login screen supposed to play some really low-key wind wooshing sound? I don't have a login yet (not until I'm reasonably confident I can actually run this), and it's not clear that esound is actually doing the trick rather than playing some garbled stuff.

Far as why esd is working and other stuff isn't, we have a few theories:

kevlarman: pretty much exactly what i suspected, the esd driver is barely maintained atm, someone broke the alsa driver but not esd
kevlarman: the check that returns MMSYSERR_ALLOCATED differs quite a bit between winealsa.drv and wineesd.drv
[..]
kevlarman: looks like winealsa.drv/waveout.c doesn't want to play multiple streams

[TTimo]

Success!

Got things working with the alsa backend .. patch:

--- a/dlls/winealsa.drv/waveout.c
+++ b/dlls/winealsa.drv/waveout.c
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static DWORD wodOpen(WORD wDevID, LPWAVEOPENDESC lpDesc, DWORD dwFlags)

if (wwo->pcm != NULL) {
WARN("%d already allocated\n", wDevID);
- return MMSYSERR_ALLOCATED;
+ return MMSYSERR_NOERROR;
}

if (dwFlags & WAVE_DIRECTSOUND)

This basically makes the Alsa backend behave the same as Esound .. I can't tell if it's a good or a bad thing but sound seems to work, and I haven't noticed any other problems.

[TTimo]

Love has an AppDB entry now, that way Wine users can track working/non working state for the game, and all that good stuff:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...tion&iId=11327

[korncob]

Anyone else find the title slightly funny? :P

Sorry I don't have anything to contribute x..x

[VariousArtist]

Great that somebody showed up who has a bit more experience with Wine and Linux! Bless you Timo! Wasnt able to fix that annoying linux soundcrap myself.

[Amagineer]

Well, I'll have to try that patch and see if I can get Love working with ALSA instead of EsounD. Just wondering, did either of you get any sound when you used EsounD?

[Oksavik]

After loading I end up floating above the ground, with rather damaged pixels around. Sometimes objects can be seen floating. When I try to move the view, the game crashes to desktop.
Any ideas?
It has worked great before.

Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
Wine 1.0.1

EDIT: After installing Wine 1.1.41 this works great for me.
Screenshot: Imgur

[VariousArtist]

Originally Posted by Amagineer

Well, I'll have to try that patch and see if I can get Love working with ALSA instead of EsounD. Just wondering, did either of you get any sound when you used EsounD?

Yes, I only got sound with Esound+emulation enabled only. All others bailed out at the sound init. Didnt knew about that workaround with Alsa. But seems Esound is removed or will be removed soon?

[Amagineer]

Well, EsounD is definitely still there, and I can confirm that the patch works, although you have to be willing to build wine from source and whatnot.

[Oksavik]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, ESound has disappeared in Wine. This means that LOVE no longer works for me.

Could TTimo, or someone else explain the solution please?

Originally Posted by TTimo

Success!

Got things working with the alsa backend .. patch:

I'm not sure where to 'apply' the patch that you posted.

[Oksavik]

Sorry for bumping this, but does anyone play LOVE using Linux and Wine?

I've had plenty of problems with this, not being an Ubuntu-guru or anything. However, I just got it going again.

My problem was that ESound was removed when upgrading to 10.04.
The solution was WinePulse.

Installing this custom version of Wine gave me a Pulseaudio choice in the config, and it worked.