On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Berillions wrote: > > the other petition does have a point about Wine not doing as well with > > sound as it should. > > Yes, there are some issues. > > For the record, here are a couple links to people talking about their > problems with the game: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/144915/limbo-game-has-no-sound > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142465 > ( from > http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ufxcg/were_humble_indie_bundle_v_creators_of/ > ) > > Several people are trying to run it without proper graphics drivers, > and seeing crashes like the following; maybe Wine should > blacklist graphics drivers that can't handle common games? > > Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit > code (0x7ca26b9b). > Backtrace: > =>0 0x7ca26b9b in swrast_dri.so (+0x195b9b) (0x00000000) > ... > 23 0x7e52ff27 Direct3DCreate9+0x66() in d3d9 (0x0033fa1c) > > > This comes up in one form or the other very often, though, doesn't it? Company x releases software y with a Wine wrapper advertising "native linux support" and users get upset. Personally, I'm glad they're thinking about Linux and I think Wine fills a great role as a "transitional" step between Windows and Linux, but I don't think it's any good to encourage using Wine over making the game more portable. Besides, doesn't HIB have some rule about requiring all games to support Linux natively?
J. Leclanche
