Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Old school Zork adventure, loaded with playful puzzles and superb atmosphere. Seek the quest for returning magic usage in Great Underground Empire in nice rendered pseudo-3D environment.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.activision.com
Votes:	2
Latest Rating:	Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested:	7.0

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Vit Hrachovy

Test Results

Old test results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Game intro movies, Game Save, Game Load, In-Game movie sequences, In-Game motion between locations.

What does not

Game first menu, In-Game Preferences, Restore /load/ menu redraws badly (switching desktops shows the content as long as Alt key is held in Fluxbox), Game does not redraw main screen correctly when staying on location. Seems like out of sync. Game exit upon pressing 'y' does not work, needs to kill the application with ctrl+c.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Installation, Uninstall

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Tried both with Desktop Double Buffering set On and Off with the same results.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 06 2022	7.0	Yes	No	Yes	Garbage	Jeff D. Hanson
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 11 2015	1.7.34	Yes	No	No	Garbage	Jeff D. Hanson
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Oct 02 2012	1.5.18	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	turtles
Show	Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 11 2008	1.0-rc4	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Vit Hrachovy
Show	Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 01 2008	1.0-rc2	N/A	Yes	No	Garbage	Vit Hrachovy

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
2082	DirectDraw games only showing black screen	NEW		View
52529	Black screen in Zork: Grand Inquisitor	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

First, you need to apply patch from Bug 1347. Game won't redraw properly without this patch.

Install the game into c:\games\zgi.
Create folders c:\games\zgi\cd1, c:\games\zgi\cd2
Copy the complete contents of each CD into its respective folder you've created in step 2.
Modify file c:\games\zgi\inquis.zix to have following info at the head of file: inquis.zix
Run winecfg and set the following values:
Applications / Windows version: Windows XP
Graphics / Emulate a virtual desktop: 640x480
(required, in 0.9.24 game doesn't start)
(in 0.9.35 transition videos don't play without virtual desktop)
Audio / OSS Driver
(Important! ALSA isn't functional in Wine 0.9.24 for this game)
(Edit: wine 0.9.35 ALSA works as usual)
Switch X to 16bpp
Run the game wine ./zgiwin.exe

DO NOT SUBMIT TEST RESULTS FOR PATCHED WINE. THIS IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF WINE'S CAPABILITIES. ANY TEST RESULTS WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT WARNING.

Comments

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Loading Save Game Crash
by Ben Leggett on Monday August 18th 2008, 22:04

I recently tried installing this game in Vista, and I see the exact same loading save game crash, as well as some occasional major redraw problems. Seems it's not just wine.

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Demo download available
by Vit Hrachovy on Saturday November 11th 2006, 5:38

I've set up a webpage with ZGI Demo download and HOWTO run it in Windows XP/Linux.

wood.sandbox.cz/zork-grand-inquisitor/

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engine / redraw bugs
by Vit Hrachovy on Friday November 3rd 2006, 14:47

Zork: Nemesis and Zork: Grand Inquisitor share the same (or very similar) graphic engine, so fixing the direct draw bug (seem to be out of sync or badly double buffered) will fix both games.

I'll create BugZilla tickets (screen redrawing, ALSA support, full screen support) when I put both game demos somewhere for developers to be able to test the fixes.

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