Bioshock + Wine

[pjunod]

wine 0.9.39

I managed to get bioshock installed in wine with the crack that was released for it. I got several errors about missing dx9 and other misc dll files and got past all of those by downloading the missing dll files.


Now i'm getting an error when i try to launch the game saying

R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.

and wine spits out the following error:

err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "MSVCR80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\2K Games\\BioShock\\Builds\\Release\\Bioshock.exe" failed, status c0000142

I know the game + crack i have works because it was just installed on a friend's windows machine several hours ago.

Has anyone been able to get bioshock to work in wine? I'm not seeing anything on winehq or finding anything by googling either.

[pjunod]

specs might be helppful too....

video: 256mb MSI 6600GT OC PCI-e x16
ram: 2gigs

emerge info:

[Hyper_Eye]

Here is the appdb link:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=5695

This is currently a non-working title. It does not work in Wine or Cedega. Give it a little time as it is very new. It is also a DX10 game (though I know it can run in DX9 mode.)
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[pjunod]

yes. i had run across that page on wine's website. it was the first place i looked. All of the reviews are for the demo though. I was hoping someone else had been trying bioshock as well considering how popular it seems to be.

I was under the impression that wine supported directx 9. I know bioshock wants 9.0c, not sure what version wine will do. It did ask for one of the dx9 dll files, which i downloaded and threw in my system32 directory.

does anyone know if either wine or cedega developers are looking at bioshock yet?

[Hyper_Eye]

I am sure they are both looking at it. It is already getting a lot of buzz and I think it is going to get very popular.

There are a lot more things to consider then DX9. Even DX9 has a lot of different API and functionality and it is not 100% supported. There is also sound, copyright protection, input, etc. etc. Like I said, it will take a little time. If a game works on release then it is luck. A lot of games don't (especially if they use a new engine like Unreal3 engine which bioshock uses.)
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[Saint1911]

Forget about it, it won't work until the developers remove the Securom hash indexing, dvd topography comparation to your unique key, debug checker and online activation.
Ken Levine (Lead Designer) has stated that they are going to do that in the future, but did not give a time frame.
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[stefandoesinger]

Bioshock (demo) sorta runs nowadays, with a small fix for ntdll and an extra registry key to tell the securom copy protection that you don't have Daemon Tools installed. However, it doesn't run well. It crashes on some machines in the Nvidia driver(I think it's a gentoo bug, but I haven't isolated it yet), and it is rather slow. Graphics render for major part correctly though. One d3d hack is needed too, which should be fixed somewhen with a more profound cleanup of some parts of the code. GLSL and fbos have to be enabled.

In General we(I'm a developer of Wine's D3D implementation) do not care much about games like Bioshock. There is a short time buzz about them, and a few days / weeks later it is silent. Multiplayer and Online games are more important in the long run. As you can see, this thread was started on sept. 2nd and ended 4 days later. Nobody talks about Oblivion any more. Warcraft 3 and even old Starcraft are more popular than Oblivion today as far as I can see. Nothing was fixed for Bioshock specifically, it just "runs" with what we have already.

[Cyker]

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