Sid Meier's SimGolf

What works

Installation (installer seemed sluggish, but this didn't appear to cause any problems), intro and outro (game exit) movies, opening menu screens. Sound and music for above (using ALSA; OSS not tested).

What does not

There are graphics drawing errors in the game, noticeable when scrolling: areas of land will 'overdraw' existing land or simply not appear, leaving situations where, e.g., trees are observed on a black background. This leads to situations where the view on screen does not match with the game's interpretation (when placing a course, for example) and renders the game unplayable.

A possible sound glitch was also detected, where a regular 'ticking' noise would develop over time.

Finally, the in-game fonts are not correctly displayed. When compared with the game running natively in Windows, it is obvious that a replacement font is being used instead of those provided with the game. This causes text to be shifted up a line, causing minor readability problems and some graphical inconsistencies where, for example, the shaded backgrounds to tooltips do not match up with the tooltip text. This is probably related to some "CreateScalableFontResourceA" lines in the terminal output.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Full play-through.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Game was tested with a no-cd crack and run in a separate X session via a script (winecfg was therefore *not* set to emulate a virtual desktop).