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(Support) Backyard Baseball 2001 crashing on black screen in Wine (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Backyard Baseball 2001 is immediately crashing in Wine on a black screen: https://paste.debian.net/1294999

This is on a dedicated 32-bit prefix with DirectPlay only installed via winetricks. The prefix is set to claim to be Windows 98. The exact same disc is confirmed to work if mounted in 86box (running Windows 2000)

Just before the crash, a printer error is thrown. The printer works fine in Linux, but such an error shouldn't crash the game like this. And also, printing is not an integral part of the game (you can print an image of your team, but its optional.)

The game appears as Platinum rated on Wine AppDB: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9088

I will add here. Apparently, I have fixed it by finding a workaround. Shutting down cups with sudo service stop cups has made the game run.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reading the logs, im curious what happens if you unplug the MG2900LAN printer? It seems to me as well to cause the crash.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I will add here. Apparently, I have fixed it by finding a workaround. Shutting down cups with sudo service stop cups has made the game run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's a wireless printer, I can't really unplug it. Also, its turned off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wireless printers didn't exist when this game came out. Network printers weren't really a thing in homes. I wonder if it's trying to probe the printer for some details, like margins or paper size, and crashes due to latency.

Edit: Have you tried removing/renaming the wineps.drv file in this bottle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The game crashes instantly, so maybe not latency. Maybe a valid workaround would be to actually turn on the wireless printer, as all my tests were done with the printer turned off. That actually makes sense.

When I will be able to again I will try to remove the driver too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try using ScummVM to play it instead of WINE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know why but ScummVM runs extremely poorly on my system. Despite it not being weak or old, audio is just very corrupted/distorted. Also, a couple of old games I tried in the past lost some features (like my copy of Sam and Max Hit the Road not rendering subtitles in ScummVM)