Winetricks: New verb for cnc-ddraw

[Gcenx]

Could we get a new verb for install cnc-ddraw as the last recent version that it worked good in was wine 3.4 after that it has remained broken again.

Wine bug

Affected games are;
Command & Conquer Gold
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Carmageddon
Carmageddon 2
Warcraft 2
StarCraft
Diablo 2
Age of Empires
Age of Empires II
Fallout
Theme Hospital
Populous: The Beginning
Outlaws
Dungeon Keeper
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Atomic Bomberman
Dune 2000
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Commandos
Red Baron 3D
F-16 Multirole Fighter
F-22 Raptor
Nox

With cnc-ddraw installed and set as native I'm able to play Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge again at full speed using any wine version.

[austin987]

Do any of these have a free demo?

It's interesting that the wine bug doesn't mention this project

[Gcenx]

Do any of these have a free demo?

It's interesting that the wine bug doesn't mention this project

@austin987
I’m not sure if any of games have a demo anymore but I do know of the multiplayer only clients that were for download from XWIS Licensed Multiplayer Only Clients but those links are now dead so XWIS wayback link
Red Alert 2 & Yuri’s Revenge, those are licensed to XWIS by EA and where a lot of people still play Red Alert 2 to this day. Yuri's Revenge players moved into CNCNet.

These are all freeware;
Command & Conquer, As of July 2010
Command & Conquer - Red Alet, As of August 31, 2008
Tiberian Sun, As of February 12, 2010 - download link

The bug has been around before cnc-ddraw was a project so I guess nobody bothered since it seemed more of a won’t fix bug at this point.

Edit;
I know on macOS Mojave I needed to make a change to the cnc-draw config file to stop it taking control of my mouse.

I had to edit _ddraw.ini_ line 74 change "handlemouse=true" to "handlemouse=false"
The settings within ddraw.ini only work if the game that was launched has the exact name listed within ddraw.ini, this just works around the issue I found when using a XWIS game client were it was fine when using the game from Origin

[austin987]

Thanks @Gcenx; the download link in particular is helpful. I'll look in the coming days.

Note that this isn't a WONTFIX upstream; if it was, someone would've marked it as such. There are a lot of bugs and limited manpower, particularly in d3d. But if winetricks can provide an easy workaround, I'm happy to add one.

[austin987]

@Gcenx could you try https://github.com/austin987/winetricks/tree/cnc_ddraw?

This doesn't work for me; unfortunately, I get no mouse in the Tiberian Sun demo.

[Gcenx]

@austin987 I got that working for RA2 and YR on my system.
cnc-ddraw only functions if the exact exactable name is used. If I launch YR with gamemd.exe then it will function correctly if I launched using another exactable name then it won't function.

So I guess the TS Demo you tried is not listed in the ddraw.ini file?

Yeah I know it's not a WONTFIX according to the bug but it _seems_ like it as its was broken a good while ago, but now having this added will get at least some games functioning again.

[austin987]

Ah, great! I misunderstood what you meant by the executable name comment. Yeah, the demo is 'SUN.EXE', which isn't listed.

[austin987]

Fixed by https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/commit/2a0dfb0f8ea7e552e70c8459b55ee79a431cd71d