Application Details:
| Version: | 1.x |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.popcap.com/games/pv... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.5.29 |
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What works
Gaming in general works fine. Zen garden, all the mini-games. I have finished the game. 3D-acceleration finally works in the latest version of wine, (1.3.26) (YAY!) :)
What does not
Sound breaks after a while, or when switching to another window, and then back again. Some times it may happen that the sound comes back for some reason. Not sure what triggers it though. Also on some bonus levels, especially when that crazy Dave is talking, the sound is more likely to disappear. Also in at the final boss it seem impossible for me to get sound to work. The shop is more likely to miss sound too. One that happened to me we the other day was that I was running another program in wine, namely Snes9x 1.43. When I closed snes9x, the sound came back to PVZ. To get the sound back one need to first finish the level that miss sound, and then quit the game. The next level seem to have sound, if lucky.
Workarounds
What was not tested
I have yet not finished the game twice, and I don't have all the stuff from the shop. I have not tried the tree of wisdom yet.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
If you don't have the latest version of wine, make sure to upgrade it as soon as possible. The game runs MUCH smoother with the 3D-acceleration enabled.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 05 2013 | 1.5.29 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 23 2013 | 1.5.25 | N/A | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Fedora 17 | Jan 31 2013 | 1.5.18 | N/A | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Sep 22 2012 | 1.5.11 | N/A | Yes | Bronze | fpemud | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 14 2011 | 1.3.26 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Jonas |
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by morin on Friday September 20th 2013, 14:24
by Jonas on Saturday August 6th 2011, 11:23
The no sound issues came back, but first after playing a lot of levels.
At the title screen the sound works perfectly though, even though I might tab to other windows etc. More or less I have to restart the game before I start a new level.
The game along with wine also suffers from bad speeds and a lot of lag. Probably because you have to disable 3D acceleration, as the game won't run properly at all if you use the 3D acceleration. Mouse get's stuck among other things.
Also, sometimes when you alt+tab or click outside the window (I run the game in windowed mode) the game won't pause automatically.
Anyhow it runs decent enough to play through it, at least this far into the game. I'm currently at level 4-4, and I have also played the mini games this far.
No crashes, besides the sound. And a bit of bad performance. Otherwise it works just fine.
The DSOUND option in the library settings only seem to help a little bit (if at all) in other words.
by kashu mari on Friday March 26th 2010, 7:51
No looading straight crash.
the terminal reports me this:
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x32f904 (nil) 0x32f93c
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 135 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 509
Current serial number in output stream: 509
somebody any idea what the problem is?
greetz
by Sepp on Thursday June 24th 2010, 15:19
by joseph stein on Sunday February 6th 2011, 5:43
by Dan Kegel on Tuesday March 23rd 2010, 19:40
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 dank dank 25214 2010-03-04 15:01 moregames.ico
drwxrwxrwx 4 dank dank 4096 2010-03-23 17:38 Plants vs. Zombies
uh-oh. Why is it installed world-writable?
by Adam Bolte on Tuesday August 3rd 2010, 18:44
by Mike Freeman on Tuesday March 9th 2010, 2:38
Immediately upon running, I get
"Cannot read access control list. Error code: 1400"
After closing that error message, it seems to install the rest of the way through, but then I get this message:
"The game is not properly installed. Please reinstall."
Any subsequent reinstall goes exactly the same way, and any attempts to run the game display this last error message again.
by Stelar on Tuesday January 26th 2010, 15:28
by John on Thursday February 4th 2010, 15:45
by vexorian on Monday September 28th 2009, 11:32
by vexorian on Monday September 28th 2009, 23:41