cncra2yr Nothing appears when I run cncra2yr

21.04. 04:10:13.918 Logfile for Yuri's Revenge client 21.04. 04:10:13.928 Client version: 2.8.0.0 21.04. 04:10:13.928 Loading settings. 21.04. 04:10:13.960 Failed to load the translation file. Could not find file 'C:\Westwood\RA2\Resources\Translation.ini'. 21.04. 04:10:13.971 Initializing updater. 21.04. 04:10:13.975 Update mirror count: 1 21.04. 04:10:13.975 Running from: clientxna.exe 21.04. 04:10:13.977 Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 21.04. 04:10:13.977 Selected OS profile: WINXP 21.04. 04:10:13.977 Current culture: en-US 21.04. 04:10:13.981 Removing partial custom component downloads. 21.04. 04:10:13.988 Checking for the existence of FinalSun.ini. 21.04. 04:10:13.988 FinalSun.ini doesn't exist - writing default settings. 21.04. 04:10:13.988 An exception occured while checking the existence of FinalSun settings 21.04. 04:10:13.989 Writing installation path to the Windows registry. 21.04. 04:10:13.995 Starting background processing of INI files. 21.04. 04:10:13.995 /INI/Base does not exist, skipping background processing of INI files. 21.04. 04:10:14.150 Hardware info: Video controller info not found | | Total physical memory: 15GB

Linux Mint 18.1, all up to date, up to date snap and new cncra2yr install. The usual processes start: " drlipps 10191 2.8 0.3 32804 31364 ? Ss 04:09 0:37 /snap/cncra2yr/93/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wineserver drlipps 10206 0.0 0.1 1967712 14604 ? Sl 04:09 0:01 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe drlipps 10216 0.2 0.3 2192948 25060 ? Sl 04:09 0:03 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe drlipps 10191 2.8 0.3 32804 31364 ? Ss 04:09 0:37 /snap/cncra2yr/93/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wineserver drlipps 30835 0.0 0.0 7224 3848 pts/0 S+ 04:02 0:00 /bin/bash /snap/cncra2yr/93/bin/sommelier run-exe ", but no screen appears.

Problem occurred on a install that had been working for several years. Updated and re-installed hoping it would correct the issue.

Please help me get this working again.

Apr 21 '23 09:04 drlipps

backup game needed files then remove snap with snap remove --purge cncra2yr then retry installing snap again see if that helps.

Apr 21 '23 09:04 mmtrt

Have tried that several times. Sometimes the install works smooth, sometimes the dotnet45 portion gets wine errors with invalid file handles. Last iteration there were no errors posted. Same behavior on all installs.

Apr 21 '23 22:04 drlipps

can you send client.log and crashlogs/ from $HOME/snap/cncra2yr/common/.wine/drive_c/Westwood/RA2/Client/ if any.

Apr 22 '23 06:04 mmtrt

No crashlogs. client.log contents are in the beginning of the first post. I think the line at the end: "21.04. 04:10:14.150 Hardware info: Video controller info not found | | Total physical memory: 15GB" might be relevant.

Apr 23 '23 10:04 drlipps

Also, I have tried "snap run cncra2yr.cncra2yrogl", and "snap run cncra2yr.cncra2yrdx" just in case it might make any difference. Same results as above in both cases.

Apr 24 '23 00:04 drlipps

which gpu you have and drivers, you might be missing i386 drivers I think.

Apr 24 '23 05:04 mmtrt

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) Again - this has worked for years and suddenly stopped. I have other wine installations that work fine as well, they are just not snap(s).

Apr 24 '23 15:04 drlipps

Partial output from "inxi -Fxz": Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected] GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Rendering: Yes Hope this helps out

Apr 24 '23 18:04 drlipps

check with this command

apt list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep -e mesa -e drm

Apr 25 '23 05:04 mmtrt

apt list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep -e mesa -e drm libdrm-amdgpu1/xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libdrm-common/xenial-updates,xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 all [installed,automatic] libdrm-intel1/xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libdrm-nouveau2/xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libdrm-radeon1/xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libdrm2/xenial-updates,now 2.4.91-2~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libegl1-mesa/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libegl1-mesa-drivers/xenial-updates,now 12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libgl1-mesa-dri/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 i386 [installed] libgl1-mesa-glx/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 i386 [installed] libglapi-mesa/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 i386 [installed] libgles1-mesa/xenial-updates,xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 all [installed] libgles2-mesa/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] libglu1-mesa/xenial,now 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 [installed] libosmesa6/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic] libva-drm1/xenial-updates,now 1.7.0-1ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed,automatic] libwayland-egl1-mesa/xenial-updates,now 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 amd64 [installed] mesa-utils/xenial,now 8.3.0-1 amd64 [installed]

Apr 25 '23 06:04 drlipps

I have no idea why the strikeout text appeared, ignore that - it was an artifact of the copy paste from the command window.

Apr 25 '23 06:04 drlipps

its probably because of "~" sign.

try installing

sudo apt install libdrm-intel1:i386

Apr 25 '23 07:04 mmtrt

It is already there and up to date:

sudo apt install libdrm-intel1:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done libdrm-intel1:i386 is already the newest version (2.4.91-2~16.04.1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Apr 25 '23 12:04 drlipps

can you try again with updating runtime snap snap refresh wine-platform-runtime-core20

Apr 25 '23 20:04 mmtrt

Also up to date: snap refresh wine-platform-runtime-core20 snap "wine-platform-runtime-core20" has no updates available

Is there any chance the startup script changed something relative to the display settings inside the mint install for just the wine environment, but not in a place that gets overwritten when one re-installs, and did not (for whatever reason - I saw no failures until it just would not show anything at startup) clean that back up ? All the usual processes start and run along merrily like they think the window is up and I am not using it - I used top to see them switch in and out etc. - the list:

drlipps 15014 2.6 0.2 25372 24108 ? Ss 16:15 0:00 /snap/cncra2yr/93/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wineserver drlipps 15029 0.0 0.1 1967712 14252 ? Sl 16:15 0:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe drlipps 15036 1.2 0.3 2192948 24860 ? Sl 16:15 0:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe drlipps 14929 0.6 0.0 7092 3612 pts/1 S+ 16:15 0:00 /bin/bash /snap/cncra2yr/93/bin/sommelier run-exe drlipps 15014 2.6 0.2 25372 24108 ? Ss 16:15 0:00 /snap/cncra2yr/93/wine-platform/wine-stable/bin/wineserver

I just have no idea how they render a screeen etc. so I am not sure where to look. Sure appreciate your help !

Apr 25 '23 21:04 drlipps

Nothing of sort only runtime snap was changed recently.

My bad missed branch flag on refresh command use --beta

Apr 25 '23 21:04 mmtrt

Eureka !

Made change to 1280x1024, ts-ddraw (please advise if I should use a different one) Updated the game to 8.33.0 Did not try a match yet, but I see no reason that should be an issue.

If there is anything I can do to help debug or test any changes please let me know.

Thank you so much for making this run on Linux - I have sure appreciated being able to play.

Apr 26 '23 03:04 drlipps

use your native resolution if its not more than 1080 and cnc-ddraw is used usually if that makes issues than use ts-ddraw

Apr 26 '23 05:04 mmtrt

OK everything is working fine now. Thank you very much for your help. Not sure of the protocol here - do I close this or do you ?

Apr 26 '23 18:04 drlipps

Oh and the offer to test still stands - leave this open if you want me to test anything for you.

Apr 26 '23 18:04 drlipps

Please see discord "LAN mode create game crashes" - I am wondering if the beta version of the client is causing that or not, and if I can upgrade to the latest snap and still have the problem described here work OK - thoughts ?

May 23 '23 04:05 drlipps

Can I update to the most recent and still have this fix ?

Jul 18 '23 01:07 drlipps

which issue fix drivers one that you had or lan one

Jul 18 '23 06:07 mmtrt

fix drivers. Some time shortly thereafter, (just a few days/ 1-2 weeks if I recall) the kaboom trying to create a LAN game started. I cannot seem to find a fix for that, but I am not sure that the "fix drivers" caused the create LAN game issue or not... I have been updating the game itself when CNCnet releases new versions. I just have been hesitant to update the snap for fear of re-introducing the problem you fixed for me above. Please advise.

Jul 19 '23 04:07 drlipps

test build from candidate branch make sure clean install after purge remove snap.

Jul 31 '23 06:07 mmtrt