GTA Vice City not starting up

[tehforum]

Hi,

I just got a brand new copy of GTA:VC, and I got round to installing it. All is good, nothing wrong there.

But when I go to Applications > Wine > Programs > Rockstar Games > Grand Theft Auto Vice City...

There is no option to start the game up, there is only the option to Uninstall Vice City.

So, I persevered and browsed through my C drive (/home/myusername/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Then I right click on "gta-vc.exe", Open With > Open with Wine Windows Emulator, and I click on that.

But nothing happens.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you.

- Wine 1.0
- Ubuntu 7.10

[cogadh]

Run the game from the terminal and post Wine's terminal output here, it may explain what is happening:

cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Rockstar\ Games/Grand\ Theft\ Auto\ Vice\ City
wine gta-vc.exe

[tehforum]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

Here is the output...



fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_LoadFromFile No support for .ani cursors.
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 2d1400 (device=2d access=0 func=500 method=0)
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1126,00007f8a),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x112e,00007f00),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x113e,00007f03),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1146,00007f01),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1156,00007f88),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1166,00007f86),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1176,00007f83),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1186,00007f85),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1196,00007f82),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x11a6,00007f84),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x11b6,00007f04),stub!
fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x11c6,00007f02),stub!
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8193 (SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f098,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.
err:quartz:Parser_Destroy pinref should be null, is 1, destroying anyway
fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.
err:quartz:Parser_Destroy pinref should be null, is 1, destroying anyway
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:CompareFunc Unrecognized WINED3DCMPFUNC value 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0


The sound doesn't work, in the menu it says "No audio hardware detected".

[cogadh]

I had to re-install GTA:VC myself to try and see what is going on. I'm getting the same issue as you, but it appears to be a simple focus issue. After you launch the game, wait a minute, then hit the Enter key and the game will magically appear.

As for the sound thing, I had sound the first time I ran the game, but now my system has lost all sound capability. It is likely a PulseAudio issue, since the terminal is producing Pulse related errors. I'll keep poking at that one and see if I can come up with something.

EDIT - Odd, after a reboot, sound works fine again. I did find that if I had "Driver Emulation" enabled in Wine's Audio config, GTA:VC would not let me select anything other than "auto detect" for sound hardware , which let some of the sound, specifically the radio stations, work fine but not all the sound. After turning off "Driver Emulation", full sound capability came back.

[Vince4Amy]

I had to re-install GTA:VC myself to try and see what is going on. I'm getting the same issue as you, but it appears to be a simple focus issue. After you launch the game, wait a minute, then hit the Enter key and the game will magically appear.

On GTA III, Vice City & SA I have to double tap return to get it to play. I always thought it was because of the two videos it plays at the start which do not have a compatible player unless you have Windows Media Player installed.

[cogadh]

Yeah, I thought of that, so I installed WMP10 with winetricks and it still doesn't support mpeg-1 correctly. I thought it might simply a lacking function in quartz.dll, so I tried using a native quartz and it made no difference. Unfortunately, removing or renaming those video files also makes no difference, since the game still needs one or two presses of ENTER to come up without them.

[sportspool7]

When I run the game from the terminal and post Wine's terminal output here, it explain to me like this:

Code:
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8193 (SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT)
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x746929 (thread 0034), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00746929).
err:dbghelp_msc:codeview_process_info Unknown CODEVIEW signature 088d8601 in module L"gta_sa"
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:00746929 ESP:0177fd58 EBP:0177ff08 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:00000000 EDX:0000057f
ESI:00000000 EDI:7b868100
Stack dump:
0x0177fd58: 00748732 7b8b6ff4 010e0000 00400000
0x0177fd68: 00828cb3 00856c80 7bc3313f 7b8b6ff4
0x0177fd78: 00000002 0177fdd4 0177fdb0 7b8680af
0x0177fd88: 00000002 00000000 0177fdd4 00c9ad08
0x0177fd98: 0177fdd4 00823b3e 00000008 7b8b6ff4
0x0177fda8: 00000000 7b868100 0177fde0 7b86812c
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00746929 in gta_sa (+0x346929) (0x0177ff08)
2 0x7b877f48 in kernel32 (+0x57f48) (0x0177ffe8)
3 0x60024b77 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
0x00746929: movl 0x0(%eax),%ecx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (81 modules)
PE 230000- 239000 Deferred ogg
PE 240000- 348000 Deferred vorbis
PE 350000- 380000 Deferred eax
PE 400000- 1577000 Export gta_sa
PE 10000000-10011000 Deferred vorbisfile
ELF 60000000-6001d000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF 6001d000-60153000 Export libwine.so.1
ELF 60153000-6016c000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF 6016c000-60170000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 60170000-60196000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 60196000-601ad000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 601ad000-601b8000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 601b8000-601c4000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 601c4000-6030f000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 601e0000-6030f000 \ user32
ELF 6030f000-60361000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 60320000-60361000 \ advapi32
ELF 60361000-60375000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 60375000-603d8000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 60380000-603d8000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 603d8000-60405000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 60405000-6040a000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 6040b000-604aa000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 60420000-604aa000 \ gdi32
ELF 604aa000-60550000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 604c0000-60550000 \ ole32
ELF 60550000-605ea000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 60560000-605ea000 \ winex11
ELF 605ea000-605f3000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 605f3000-60603000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 60603000-60732000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 60732000-60750000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 60750000-60755000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 60755000-60776000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 60760000-60776000 \ imm32
ELF 60776000-60779000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 60779000-60783000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 60783000-6078c000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 6078c000-60790000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 60790000-60796000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 60796000-607cd000 Deferred winealsa<elf>
\-PE 607a0000-607cd000 \ winealsa
ELF 607cd000-60894000 Deferred libasound.so.2
ELF 60894000-6089d000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 608a0000-608e0000 Deferred libpulse.so.0
ELF 608e0000-608e6000 Deferred libxtst.so.6
ELF 608e6000-608ef000 Deferred libwrap.so.0
ELF 608ef000-6095b000 Deferred libsndfile.so.1
ELF 6095b000-60994000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3
ELF 60994000-609e4000 Deferred libflac.so.8
ELF 609e4000-60ae0000 Deferred libvorbisenc.so.2
ELF 60ae0000-60b09000 Deferred libvorbis.so.0
ELF 60b09000-60b10000 Deferred libogg.so.0
ELF 60b10000-60b28000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 60b20000-60b28000 \ msacm32
ELF 60b28000-60b3e000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 60b30000-60b3e000 \ midimap
ELF 65f56000-65f6c000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 664e8000-6650f000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 6a900000-6a928000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 6a910000-6a928000 \ msacm32
ELF 6ba25000-6ba6f000 Deferred libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so
ELF 6c08f000-6c10e000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 6d91f000-6d925000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 6de57000-6de72000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 6f311000-6f456000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF 6f510000-6f53d000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 6f520000-6f53d000 \ ws2_32
ELF 6fe35000-6fe3c000 Deferred libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ELF 726fb000-7271a000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 72700000-7271a000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 77e4c000-77e57000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7931f000-793b3000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 79330000-793b3000 \ winmm
ELF 7b555000-7b559000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7b800000-7b93c000 Export kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b93c000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bca7000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bca7000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7c01d000-7c025000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008
00000009 0
0000000c
00000012 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000011 0
00000010 0
00000018
00000019 0
00000032 (D) C:\Game\GTA-SanAndreas\gta_sa.exe
00000034 0 <==
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00746929 in gta_sa (+0x346929) (0x0177ff08)
2 0x7b877f48 in kernel32 (+0x57f48) (0x0177ffe8)
3 0x60024b77 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x746929

somebody can fix this problems?

[aboud]

same goes here ... a lot of googling nothing good yet .

[asdfoo]

I had to use a nocd patch when I last ran Vice City.

[aboud]

I had to use a nocd patch when I last ran Vice City.

not helping ..

[asdfoo]

not helping ..

which video card and drivers do you have?