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original retail version

please patch black and white to 1.10 and post results on that version

Application Details:

Version: 1.0
License: Retail
URL: http://www.lionhead.com/bw/
Votes: Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating: Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested: 2.0-rc2

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Test Results

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What works

Installation, and CD check (need nocd patch to go further).

What does not

The game starts and displays a full black screen for a while, the exits back to Gnome. It appears that it also displays an error box (“The program runblack.exe as encountered an error”) in the background (as seen trying to switch tasks). Highest and lowest configuration settings have been tested.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The rest of the game.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jan 01 20172.0-rc2Yes Yes NoPlatinumGabriel-Andrew Pollo-Guilbert 
ShowMac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"Sep 18 20151.7.51Yes Yes NoSilverSam 
ShowDebian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.x "Wheezy"Jun 03 20151.7.44Yes No NoGarbageTiago Medeiros 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 09 20111.3.19Yes Yes NoSilverNick Stuckert 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny"Oct 28 20081.1.7Yes Yes NoBronzeJohn Haywards 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
219 Programs refuse to run because of safedisc copy-protection CLOSED FIXED View
3194 Certain versions of Installshield cause memory leak CLOSED FIXED View
5694 Lionhead Black & White 2 demo crashes CLOSED FIXED View
11029 Black & White game does not respond to mouse clicks CLOSED FIXED View
12651 Bad sound quality in Starcraft when running with hardware acceleration CLOSED FIXED View
14939 Black & White: DXTC to ARGB converter not implemented CLOSED FIXED View
34166 Fullscreen flickering on Mac RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
35721 Black and White: crashes on start UNCONFIRMED View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

To run Black & White (and Creature Isle) without being affected by bug 14939 (texture bug) and bug 15984 (crash 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:

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/src/wine
cd ~/src/wine
wget -O wine-dxt13-to-argb4444-xrgb1555-conversion.patch http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=34559
wget -O wine-dderr.patch http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=33563
patch -p1 < wine-dxt13-to-argb4444-xrgb1555-conversion.patch
patch -p1 < wine-dderr.patch
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).

Set wine version to win98 for best results.

For 64 bit wine go to wiki.winehq.org/Wine64.

Intro Stall/No In Game Sound

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.

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