Update on Street Racing Syndicate

My last test on Wine with Street Racing Syndicate was to disable winegstreamer.dll using winecfg.  It cleared out some of the clutter of the errors and I got this one:

MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported

Simple enough, I downloaded quartz via winetricks to see if it would clear out the issue.  As it turns out it didn't.  The game still crashed.  I suppose it's back to Windows as far as this game is concerned.

Wine and Gstreamer woes?

I stumbled upon this bug report on winegstreamer noting that it's broken on 64-bit distros.  I wonder if this is related to my issues with Street Racing Syndicate.   Hmm...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ubuntu, MultiArch, and Wine

I've been attempting to install Street Racing Syndicate using Wine which should have been relatively straightforward to do, I reckon.  Running the game however, I am constantly treated with a crash and I suspect it is caused by this error dump.

(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmplex.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmplex.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpeg2enc.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpeg2enc.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstfaac.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstfaac.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

This got me researching into Ubuntu's state of multiarch support, figuring out that packages like 

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:i386 and python-gst0.10:i386 were conspicuously missing even though I had installed ia32-libs.  As it turns out, I have conflicting library packages and Ubuntu hasn't really fixed this particular issue.  Sad to say that it looks like I will have to dig up ole Vista to play this one.