Hi!
Have tried for a while to get Mass Effect 2 working through Wine and though it's very playable for me it has a large drawback, I have to disable all movie playbacks with the -nomoviestartup argument. If I don't, the game freezes up and I can hear the sound stuck in a loop - it does not unfreeze itself.
By looking through AppDB it seems that there are a large group of people that doesn't have this problem. I assume it's either related to my processor (AMD A10-6700) or GPU (HD5770, Catalyst driver)? I have tried to several Wine versions but it didn't help.
The interesting thing is that there are many Windows users with the exact problem. Here's a link http://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-2/Can-t-run-ME2-without-nomoviestartup-....
So though the game works rather well, an important part (and some locations in the game supposedly breaks when you use nomoviestartup) is lost when movies are turned off, at least for me.
Is there any way to debug the bink movie playback functionality? Because I really would like to be able to play the game without losing the ability to watch the ingame movies.
Best regards /Tomas Gustavsson
Who knew.. It works on my laptop, my cpu is a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz. But the laptop is not good enough to play this effect, would like to get it working on my other machine (with a HD5770 GPU).
Have wanted to try out the open source drivers for the GPU, sadly I get some error about DRI3 that stops my attempt every time I try to start the game!
2014-03-21 22:11 GMT+01:00 Tomas Gustavsson tomplast@gmail.com:
Hi!
Have tried for a while to get Mass Effect 2 working through Wine and though it's very playable for me it has a large drawback, I have to disable all movie playbacks with the -nomoviestartup argument. If I don't, the game freezes up and I can hear the sound stuck in a loop - it does not unfreeze itself.
By looking through AppDB it seems that there are a large group of people that doesn't have this problem. I assume it's either related to my processor (AMD A10-6700) or GPU (HD5770, Catalyst driver)? I have tried to several Wine versions but it didn't help.
The interesting thing is that there are many Windows users with the exact problem. Here's a link http://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-2/Can-t-run-ME2-without-nomoviestartup-....
So though the game works rather well, an important part (and some locations in the game supposedly breaks when you use nomoviestartup) is lost when movies are turned off, at least for me.
Is there any way to debug the bink movie playback functionality? Because I really would like to be able to play the game without losing the ability to watch the ingame movies.
Best regards /Tomas Gustavsson
Am 21.03.2014 um 22:11 schrieb Tomas Gustavsson tomplast@gmail.com:
Have tried for a while to get Mass Effect 2 working through Wine and though it's very playable for me it has a large drawback, I have to disable all movie playbacks with the -nomoviestartup argument. If I don't, the game freezes up and I can hear the sound stuck in a loop - it does not unfreeze itself.
By looking through AppDB it seems that there are a large group of people that doesn't have this problem. I assume it's either related to my processor (AMD A10-6700) or GPU (HD5770, Catalyst driver)? I have tried to several Wine versions but it didn't help.
I think I know the problem you describe, although I have not re-tested this to be sure. ME2 likes to get stuck during the initial startup, before the main menu is shown. I think there’s a race condition somewhere in the game code. If you run in windowed mode and make the game window bigger it is quite likely to lock up. The problem might affect just window resizes or exposing parts of the window, or all message handling.
Again, this is just a theory. I never have investigated it in detail, it hasn’t bothered me enough when I was hunting other ME2 bugs.
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