Mids' Hero Designer

What works

The program installs and runs with only minor slowness after the application of the GDIPlus override.

What does not

Mouseover information of specific power effects in the lower left display causes a program crash.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Actually tested under 1.0-rc5 which was not available in the menu.

This application uses functions from GDI+ which are not yet implemented in Wine's version of the DLL. To get around this requires a native gdiplus.dll override.

To do this requires two steps:

1: Place a native (Windows) gdiplus.dll file in the Hero Designer directory. These can be obtained from any app which bundles it, or from sites like www.dll-files.com (where I got mine). Do not place this file in /system32, and definately do not replace Wine's builtin gdiplus.dll with this one. Placing it in the install directory keeps it separate from the Wine builtin files.

2: Set up the override in Wine's configuration. The instructions for this can be found here: Application Settings


NOTE: This requirement may be fixed now. MxD apparently now ships with a copy of the required DLL, and the builtin version may now incorporate the necessary features. Further testing will occur after the fatal crash bug is fixed.