Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

Tested on:

Wine 1.7.4 (compilado)
Nvidia Drivers 331.13 (.run package)
Kubuntu 13.10 32Bit - Kernel 3.11.0.12 PAE
CPU: AMD Fusion A4 3300 2.5Ghz (Dual-Core) Stock Clock
MEM: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)
GPU: Zotac Nvidia Geforce GT630 (GK208 28nm: 384 Shaders / 8 ROPS) Zone Edition Passive Cooling 2GB DDR3 1800Mhz a 64Bit (14.4Gb/s)
BOARD: MSI A55M P35

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For some unknown reason, typing

gap_iDepthBits=24
ApplyVideoMode()

in the in-game console didnt work. What instead worked was to set

persistent extern user INDEX gap_iDepthBits=(INDEX)24;

in ./Scripts/PersistentSymbols.ini which was 0 before.

Hi there,

for those who have problems with non-existant Z-buffer. The Serious Sam engine doesn't seem to specify that it really needs a Z-buffer and hopes for the standard Z-buffer depth of 16 bits. This is not quite correct behaviour and doesn't work with wine-0.9.57 and upwards.

To fix this open the ingame console and type:
gap_iDepthBits=24
ApplyVideoMode()

More information about the bug and fix in:
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11970

Greets,
Tobias Jakobi

I testet Serious Sam SE with the Wine-Version 0.9.50.

Installing and playing the Game works perfectly !

(Only Singleplayer testet)

Install without a hitch, networking seems to work fine, sound, graphics. Only glitch is that occasionally sound stops working but going to options/audio and clicking apply restarts the sound just fine.

Patching works without any problems.

Debian 4.0r1 with wine 0.9.46 compiled on my linux box with DSL.

Gold level as far as I am concerned.

Use the loki installers to install this game.
The game runs flawlessly.

here is the link :
liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=71

how? it doesnt work right

I get this error message when launching SeriousSam.exe:

fixme:process:GetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,0x33fb78,0x33fb7c): stub
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XF86VidMode)
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {5959df60-2911-11d1-b049-0020af30269a} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {5959df60-2911-11d1-b049-0020af30269a} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x600a7b43

I had exactly the same issue.

The game does not seem to be able to change resolution when you first run it.
I worked around this by setting the X resolution manually to 800x600 via krandrtray - after this the game started with no problems.

Geese

Try to start it again with a virtual desktop emulated. Does the problem still occur? Wine has also changed a lot since the last versions

The game works with wine > 0.9 and add these overrides:
msvcrt (native,builtin)
opengl32 (builtin)

Make sure you have accelerated graphics drivers. The installer leaves a wineserver running, do "$killall -9 wine-preloader" after install. The game will fail with a message along the lines of "Couldn't find an opengl display mode...." if it doesn't find a file called opengl32.dll in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/. So just put a file called opengl32.dll there (a blank text document works fine). The game runs and plays all the way through then. Leave the video driver as opengl, it crashes immediately when switching to direct hardware drivers. Make sure you open winecfg, then "drives", select your cdrom, set "type" to "cdrom" after hitting the "advanced" button. Autodetect says my cdrom is "hard disc" and disk check will fail unless I set it manually to the right type.
The patch to play online (1.05 -> 1.07) is a little problematic. On a stock wine drive it fails with:
"An installation support file could not be installed (0x8000ffff)". With a full winetools install (everything under base setup and system software), the patch will install. I believe MDAC or MSXML is what makes it work. Everything described here works exactly the same on Serious Sam the First Encounter, including an identical patch error and fix. Enjoy, and as Sam says: "Never underestimate the power of huge numbers of stupid things."

For me it works on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 and wine 0.9.19 without problems. Installer closes wineserver, and I don't have to create empty dll file. Just installed it and run as in Windows. However, I'm encountering sometimes redrawing issues. (i.e. when looking at sun)