Black & White

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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

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

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What works

Install, and then you have to install nocd, because of the copy protection and have to change video details to the lowest to start the game.
After starting the game intro loads, runs andThe tries to load the game...

What does not

...but it isn't work.

fixme:d3d_surface:IWineGDISurfaceImpl_Blt DXTC decompression not supported right now
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x6186a1c8 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x6186a1c8).

This is the error message.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The main game :(

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jan 01 2017	2.0-rc2	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Gabriel-Andrew Pollo-Guilbert
Show	Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"	Sep 18 2015	1.7.51	Yes	Yes		Silver	Sam
Show	Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.x "Wheezy"	Jun 03 2015	1.7.44	Yes	No		Garbage	Tiago Medeiros
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 09 2011	1.3.19	Yes	Yes		Silver	Nick Stuckert
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny"	Oct 28 2008	1.1.7	Yes	Yes		Bronze	John Haywards

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
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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