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Hello! I have installed this with PlayOnMac and there are black lines across the whole screen, rendering the game literally unplayable. Help please!

Hi,

without further information it's nearly impossible to help you, first, describe your hardware (OSX version, CPU, GPU, ect...) then check the PlayOnMac logs for this game it may spot the problem.

EDIT :
Just saw your other thread, it seems you are now using the official PoM install script as it clearly do NOT use wine 1.5.9-raw3 (far too old version). First use the official PoM installer before posting problem.

Regards,

GNU_Raziel

Edited by GNU_Raziel

OSX: 10.8.3
Memory: 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB
Processor: 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3
iMac 21.5-inch, Mid 2010

Above is all the system info.

I have reinstalled using the official PoM install script and the lines are still there.
Trying disabling GLSL Support.............. Program TombRaider.exe has encountered a error and had to close... Retrying............ Same problem.

So when i disable GLSL the first screen opens, i click play, screen goes black, and has to close. When i click get more info on the error, the following log comes up.

Log:


Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000155 in 32-bit code (0x4550f6d4).
Register dump:
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1007 GS:000f
EIP:4550f6d4 ESP:0033e3e0 EBP:0033e478 EFLAGS:00210202( R- -- I - - - )
EAX:00000151 EBX:4550f444 ECX:00000120 EDX:4550f435
ESI:16550b3c EDI:16550b30
Stack dump:
0x0033e3e0: 00000001 0003d368 0033e418 00000000
0x0033e3f0: 7ffdf000 0be2d370 0000fffe 45651320
0x0033e400: 00110060 0033e510 7ffdf000 4558f718
0x0033e410: 16550b3c 16550b30 0017da00 00167c8c
0x0033e420: 0be2cb18 45651320 0be2cb74 0be2cc48
0x0033e430: 0be2cf48 16550b70 00000100 7bc2839e
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x4550f6d4 in (+0x4550f6d4) (0x0033e478)
1 0x4558f1b2 in (+0x4558f1b1) (0x0033e4a8)
2 0x455905a2 in (+0x455905a1) (0x0033e508)
3 0x45591c7c in (+0x45591c7b) (0x0033e588)
4 0x454c56d5 in (+0x454c56d4) (0x0033e5e8)
5 0x454be262 in (+0x454be261) (0x0033e668)
6 0x005fb3f3 in tombraider (+0x1fb3f2) (0x0033e6f0)
0x4550f6d4: movl     0x4(%eax),%eax


System information:
Wine build: wine-1.5.19
Platform: i386
Host system: Darwin
Host version: 12.3.0

FOLLOWING IS THE OFFICIAL PoM REPORT, THE ABOVE WAS THE WINE REPORT.

PoM Log:

[04/23/13 18:32:21] - Running wine-1.5.19 --version (Working directory : /Users/Ajaay/Library/PlayOnMac)
wine-1.5.19

PlayOnMac logfile
-------------------
Date: 04/23/13 18:32:21

> PlayOnMac Version
4.2.1
> uname -a
Darwin Ajaays-iMac.local 12.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> lsb_release -a

> wine --version
wine-1.5.19
> POL_WINEVERSION
1.5.19
> WINEPREFIX
/Users/Ajaay/Library/PlayOnMac//wineprefix/Tomb_Raider_2013
> Distribution
Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12.3.0)
> glxinfo \\| grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
> glxinfo \\| grep renderer
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4670 OpenGL Engine
> OpenGL libs (Direct rendering testing)


EDIT : For god sake don't post endless logs like this, if you want to post full log use PasteBin !!

Edited by GNU_Raziel

Ok, sorry. Do you know what the problem is though?

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB

This card is definitly not suited for this game, minimal requirement is a GPU with 512MB. Add this with the very bad affinity of wine and ATI/AMD card and you will and up problem like this most of the time.

The only things you can try is :
- Update display driver (automatically done by OSX update if I remember right so probably hopeless)
- Set the game preferences to the very minimun ans see if the game launch, if it is, re-enable graphic settings one by one until you find the one making the game bug.

There is nothing more we can do.

Ok, sorry. Do you know what the problem is though?

Actually there is no "problem", no usefull information in the logs, that's why I said we cannot help you more. I think it's a GPU or driver problem, to both of them we cannot help.

Thank you for your help. The issue seems to be with Wine as the game actually runs ok with the exception of the black lines. Maybe it is a Wine config problem. Does anyone here have a Mac? If so is it working with TR 2013?

Its your card/driver and wine combined. Either upgrade the driver, if possible, or upgrade the card. Your card has very low specs for this game, and AMD/ATI are notorious for driver issues, so if updating the driver to the newest one doesnt work, then you would be better off getting a different card. I honestly, for any new game like this, wouldnt recommend anything under 1GB on the GPU, otherwise you may not meet minimum requirements and/or have to run it at low graphics settings, which just kills the HD aspect of newer games.

Edited by RoninDusette

Is it possible to upgrade the card of a iMac 21.5-inch mid 2010? I will try to update the drivers.

I have no clue. Sounds like a job for Apples support line or a google search. lol

Ok, thanks.
I have tweaked the graphics settings so it is playable, but i have another issue.
The mouse does not lock in, so when the mouse reaches the edge of the screen it stops, and i cant look that way any more in the game. Any way to lock the mouse?

This is a missing feature of wine for OSX, the mousegrab option seems to do not work as intended.

Sometimes, click outside the game screen then back inside fix this issue, at least in windowed mode (wine window mode - use winecfg, not game window mode)

This probably sounds really stupid, but how do i get to the wine cfg's?

Edited by TheMaster

I had no idea disabling the Steam Overlay (Steam community) would increase performance.
I'll have to try it

The mousegrab option is really messed up :/
I hope Wine fixes this, also the TR update news said something about they are trying to fix crashes and "major graphical corruption" for nvidia card users. I don't have nvidia, but i do have major graphical corruption, so maybe when they finally update and fix it for nvidia users, it will work for me.

Unfortunately us Linux users are at the mercy of the game developers, video drivers, Steam, Wine and PlayOnLinux.

Are you having problems with the mouse leaving the window or the movement only reduced 180 degrees?

Reduced movement, like when my mouse reaches the edge of the screen, i cant look that way anymore in TR. Makes it hard to kill dem things :P

Try these options to fix the mouse problem...

Mouse Options:
1. Click Configure
2. Select Virtual Drive
3. Click Wine Tab
4. Click Configure Wine
5. Click Graphics Tab
6. Check “Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows”

Virtual Desktop:
1. Click Configure
2. Select Virtual Drive
3. Click Wine Tab
4. Click Configure Wine
5. Click Graphics Tab
6. Check “Emulate a virtual desktop”
7. Desktop Size: 1024x768 or (Match your desktop)

Note: The game will appear to be full-screen if you match the size of your desktop. You may have to lower the resolution of your desktop first to keep a decent frame rate in game.

I have tried this with several games and has worked in some situation... like Dead Space & Mass Effect 2.

Guys,

Could someone drop me some short how-to install TR2013 on POL ? I never installed any games via POL therefore I don't even have a reference in regards to what am I doing wrong.

I went to the POL, installed TR2013 from the games. Than I was forced to open steam account which I did.

Now I have:
- Steam (tomb raider 2013)
- Tomb Raider (2013)

None of which works.

Do I install now TR from CD or should it work from steam ?

Lots of Step-by-step guides on GamersOnLinux but no Tomb Raider yet. We have gotten other games like Crysis 2 and Skyrim running in Steam, so it shouldn't be much different.