2weistein - Das Geheimnis des roten Drachen

What works

• Ton, Musik und Sprache / sound, music & voice output
• Virtual Desktop von 800x600 bis zu 1440x1050
• grafische Effekte (Feuerwerk, Untertitel bzw. Popups) / graphic effects & subtitles
• intro video
  
• Laden & Speichern / load & save
• komplett durchspielen / playing to the end (prologue, 2 levels, credits)
  

What does not

• Z und Y sind auf der deutschen Tastatur vertauscht. Keine Umlaute.
• Wenn die spieleigene Auflösung größer als die von Wines Desktop eingestellt ist, wird das Fenster nicht immer korrekt vergrößert. Abhilfe durch 2x Wechseln der Auflösung im Menü Optionen->Grafik.

• US-keyboard although it's a game from Germany: Z and Y are switched and Umlauts don't work when ente­ring the player's name.­
• With GLSL the animated figure in the main menu is covered with intermittent black moiré patterns. Use
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] "UseGLSL"="disabled"
• When the in-game resolution setting is higher than the virtual desktop's at startup, a race condition sometimes causes only the upper left of the enlarged desktop window to be used. Toggling the in-game resolution twice in a row resumes normal behaviour.

Workarounds

What was not tested

All combinations of in-game settings.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Changing graphics quality from "sehr schnell" to "hervorragend" changes nothing but the quality of the logo and icons. It has minimal effects on a few textures. The same game, when run on a Linux box with single core Intel i915 graphics, becomes too slow to be playable in the second level. Perfect speed on a dual core Mac with nVidia graphics. 2weistein uses the Mono 2.x engine. So Mono runs in Wine. The web site mentions a Mac version. Used demo version 1.0 (075) 2008-07-29 (see title screen) from a magazine's cover CD, not the web site's.