Game issues in CrossOver/Wine

[tn133]

I've been trying to run the UltraStar 1.3 beta on my Mac. Version 1.1 has never worked for me natively in OS X after the first launch so I've been running the Windows version in CrossOver (Wine) with success. Now I'm trying to run 1.3 in it and it will not work. The game launches and the songs show up, but when I go to any songs whether in sing or party mode, they are extremely distorted (sound like they're running through very staticky speakers at half speed) and the game crashes after a few seconds of play.

I've tried to install in bottles for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 and nothing works. Also thought it was maybe because my songs are on an external hard drive but moving them into the original Ultrastar directory doesn't change anything.

I know nothing is guaranteed to work in Wine but thought I'd give you the heads up anyway or see if there are any solutions. I'm going to try and compile the game natively into OS X tonight.

[basisbit]

in case you know how to compile the game, could you retry the current code including the recent bugfixes?

[basisbit]

the UltraStar Deluxe version 1.3.5 (beta 2) is now available at our download page Could you please try if that works on wine and report your results here? Thanks in advance!

[tn133]

Just tried it in CrossOver and the same thing happened, unfortunately. Here's the error log, though it looks more like a bunch of textures are missing rather than anything being wrong with audio. You can see at the end where it entered the song selection menu and it played previews of "Kryptonite" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", I then entered the latter song and while it didn't crash, the screen went white and the audio was extremely distorted and frankly kind of terrifying, sounded like people screaming! It's all right since I got the old (1.1) version working as well as the Worldparty fork, though would like to try the new modes and so on eventually! If I were to take a guess, looks like it would be an ffmpeg issue?

Edit - attached the error log as it got cut off in my response error log.txt

[basisbit]

technically, this is a wine issue - and someone should create an issue at their bugtracker for that (same would apply for ReactOS). But we might be able to figure out what part is causing the issue in wine and replace that functions by something else.

[bohning]

@tn133: You should try the native Mac version, besides a few minor issues, it works like a charm for me.

[basisbit]

@bohning could you please provide a Mac build of usdx 1.3.5 beta?

[bohning]

I'd be happy to. Any official way to upload or shall I use my Dropbox folder again? Will have to wait until tonight though...

[basisbit]

just upload it somewhere and I'll put it on sourceforge and here in github. We should chat about giving you commit access to this git repository

[bohning]

@basisbit: latest version as of 2016-12-05 (latest commit: https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX/commit/9968abaf3718426e04bcff4cb1f7cd0c45960c03)

• moved to https://usdx.eu

[bohning]

@basisbit: I tested my own dmg bundle on a second Mac, and it seems as that all the textures are missing:

Any ideas how that can be fixed?

[basisbit]

does it get fixed if you change from Modern to the deluxe theme?

[bohning]

No, same thing, no textures.

[bohning]

Weird thing is, the files seem to be there. Both in the app-file (left tab) and in the user folder (right tab):

[ePirat]

I don't think we can or want to officially support Wine. Instead just use the macOS version, please. You can find a recent build here: - moved to https://usdx.eu/

For the next beta we will hopefully (?) have a macOS version again on the website.