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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
NOTE: These test results are obtained using a patch I have written. See instructions for applying it below.
Installation
Sound and music
BIK movies (cutscenes, intros)
Textures (no more black / invisible objects)
What does not
Saving (bug 15984)
Getting past building the temple, game crashes (bug 15984)
Starting a skirmish game (bug 15984)
Going to the god's playground (bug 15984)
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Additional Comments
To try my DXT1/DXT3 to ARGB4444/XRGB1555 texture conversion patch, copy and paste the following instructions into a terminal:
mkdir ~/src
cd src
git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine
cd wine
git checkout b898130a114f1baf24f717ab0c5f9a65030c5283
wget -O wine-dxt13-to-argb4444-xrgb1555-conversion.patch http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32374
patch -p1 < wine-dxt13-to-argb4444-xrgb1555-conversion.patch
./configure --prefix=/usr
make depend
make
sudo make install
This patch will work with newer versions / commits of Wine, but the commit after this one introduces bug 25417, which causes left / right mouse button clicks to be ignored.
To run Black & White (and Creature Isle) without being affected by bug 14939 (texture bug), bug 15984 (crash bug) and bug 25417 (mouse bug), you have to run a version of Wine patched with the DXTn to ARGB texture conversion patch, blitting patch and the button click patch. To install this patched version of Wine, copy and paste the following commands into a terminal:
Check http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages to make sure you get all necessary packages, or if you encounter trouble compiling. Then copy and paste the next set of commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make depend
make
sudo make install
With these three patches, Black & White is fully and perfectly playable through Wine. If you encounter trouble patching, try looking at the bug threads for an updated patch (they are attended to more frequently than this Howto).
A picture posted of the intro with the Man and Woman kissing and little kid looking bored is the point at which a stall may occur. Settings for Audio need to be changed from hardware acceleration to emulation at this point. You can track the bug at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12651.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Patches out of date
by Mary Zunder on Monday September 26th 2011, 6:55
The patches in the howto and the latest from each of the bug pages fail with errors such as:
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3248
This is with the latest wine release from the git repository.
I tried 1.3.15 (Installed straight from Synaptic; looks fine, has no mouse problems, but still crashes at the temples completion) but, in spite of following the how-to to a tee and installing all the dependencies I've been unable to compile it properly.
I foolishly didn't record the errors (something with direct3d?) and am in the process of compiling to check these errors out again.
