2001 re-release. Produced in Canada.
Application Details:
| Version: | DPV 1.0 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.0 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Install
100% gameplay
Sound
Cinematics
Save/load
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Tested in clean 64-bit prefix with Windows version set to 7.
Game will fail to launch with an error message claiming that there needs to be 3MB of memory available in the system. Fixed by patching the exe-file using info from https://www.sacah.net/2008/01/how-to-edit-director-player-60-to-stop.html.
Also, scrolling through the inventory in-game is too fast for it to be usable. This is bypassed by temporarily slowing the process down to 5% with e.g. "cpulimit" when needed.
RTX 3070
i9-10900K
Kernel 5.10
Budgie DE
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x "Bookworm" x86_64 | May 26 2024 | 9.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Robert Ayrapetyan | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux 23 | Jun 28 2023 | 8.8 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Bob Niemöller | |
| Current | Manjaro Linux 21.2.6 | Jun 29 2022 | 7.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Bob Niemöller | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux 21.2 | Mar 03 2022 | 7.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Bob Niemöller |
Macromedia Director Player 5.0/6.0 (which Safecracker is developed in) has a bug that it does not correctly recognize available RAM, possibly due to the program being old. This issue presents itself with a popup at startup saying "This program requires at least 3mb of free virtual memory to run".
In order to remove the error popping up at the start of the game (post installation), one need to patch the .exe-file using the method described here https://www.sacah.net/2008/01/how-to-edit-director-player-60-to-stop.html. (mirror http://web.archive.org/web/201...)
Scrolling through the inventory in-game is too fast for it to be usable on modern computers. This is bypassed by temporarily slowing the process down to 5% with e.g. cpulimit (https://manpages.org/cpulimit) when needed.
$ ps -eo pid,command | grep sc_
$ cpulimit -p pid
Process
