Trouble running Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

[gcohara]

Hi,

I'm having problems getting SMAC to work. I created a wrapper using Unofficial Wineskin Winery (located in ~/Applications/), and using the engine WS11WineCX64Bit19.0.1 and wrapper Wineskin-2.9.0.6. I placed this wrapper in ~/Applications/Wineskin/, and then using the installer I got from GOG.com, run the install within the wrapper, which seems to complete successfully. I can then run the SMAC exe, and it launches, and shows the intro films. However, when I press a key/click to skip the intro films, or let them play fully, the window exits, flickers/resizes, and I am then taken to a screen where all I can see is the last frame of/frame where I skipped the intro film. I can hear the menu music, and sometimes keyboard shortcuts appear to work - e.g pressing q twices quits.

I am guessing this is something to do with video drivers. I tried with different window systems and general fiddling around with the Screen Options but had no luck. Here is my log:

000b:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
000d:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
0010:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
0017:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0xa003
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device Unable to create plug in interface for USB deviceobject 0xa007
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device Unable to create plug in interface for USB deviceobject 0xa00b
001f:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0x610f
0025:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {d8f1eee0-f634-11cf-8700-00a0245d918b} not registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {d8f1eee0-f634-11cf-8700-00a0245d918b} could be created for context 0x1
0030:fixme:ddraw:ddraw_surface7_Flip Ignoring flags 0x1.
0009:err:ole:CoUninitialize Mismatched CoUninitialize

I did some research on the GOG forums, and it seems someone else has had luck getting it to run on Catalina (https://www.gog.com/forum/sid_meier_s_alpha_centauri_/anyone_able_to_play_the_game_after_upgrading_to_macos_catalina) , and someone else has had a similar issue but on Mojave (https://www.gog.com/forum/sid_meier_s_alpha_centauri_/macos_1014_mojave) which they managed to fix by forcing XQuartz - but I don't have an option to do that, and trying to run it with X11 didn't work.

I'd appreciate any help!

[Gcenx]

If the game is 32Bit you should be using WS11WineCX19.0.1 not WS11WineCX64Bit19.0.1.

The issue is lightly this one.

0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {d8f1eee0-f634-11cf-8700-00a0245d918b} not registered

The plugplay ones can be ignored.

Try using winetricks menu and install ole32

The XQuartz setting being referenced has no bearing on Unofficial Wineskin as I don’t ship a custom version of it and that, plus wine32on64 current doesn’t support X11 (XQuartz)

Wineskin from doh123 bundled a custom patched version of XQuartz, this was 32Bit only and based on an ancient version of XQuartz making it a target for removal.\ Since Wine-1.5.28 the default display driver has been macDriver.\ The option of forcing the system version was to allow using the latest version of XQuartz over the bundled version.

[gcohara]

Thankyou for your reply. I tried making a new wrapper with WS11WineCX19.0.1, and tried that. This gave the same problem. Then I went into the Winetricks menu, selected ole32 and clicked Run, which gave this output:

warning: taskset/cpuset not available on your platform!
Executing mkdir -p /Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents
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WINEPREFIX INFO:
Drive C: .
..
GOG Games
Program Files
ProgramData
users
windows

Registry info:
/Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents/Resources/system.reg:#arch=win32
/Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents/Resources/user.reg:#arch=win32
/Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents/Resources/userdef.reg:#arch=win32
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "/Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents/Resources/winetricks: line 3338: /Users/georgeohara/Applications/Wineskin/SMAC.app/Contents/Frameworks/wswine.bundle/bin/wine: Bad CPU type in executable" 
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 Winetricks Commands Finished!!

Trying to run the game unfortunately still didn't work, with the same problem of only having sound on the main menu. This time the log says

001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0x6103
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device Unable to create plug in interface for USB deviceobject 0x6107
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0xa00b
001d:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device Unable to create plug in interface for USB deviceobject 0xa00f
0025:fixme:reg:RegOpenUserClassesRoot (00000070, 0x0, 0x2000000, 0067F104) semi-stub
0025:fixme:ole:NdrCorrelationInitialize (0067E410, 0067DEFC, 1024, 0x0): semi-stub
0025:fixme:ole:NdrCorrelationFree (0067E410): stub
0009:fixme:reg:RegOpenUserClassesRoot (00000084, 0x0, 0x2000000, 0033F948) semi-stub
0009:fixme:reg:RegOpenUserClassesRoot (00000084, 0x0, 0x2000000, 0033F9B0) semi-stub
002e:fixme:ddraw:ddraw_surface7_Flip Ignoring flags 0x1.

[Gcenx]

Ok seems when I rebased winetricks again it caused that issue, use the winetricks menu and update winetricks again so it pulls in the newly patched version that should resolve Bad CPU type in executable

Then try installing that specific trick again

[gcohara]

I did try that again, but didn't have any luck. In the end I got it running on Linux Mint, so just played it on that - but if you want, I can keep investigating and posting logs. Anyway, thanks for your help!