Backporting Wine 1.5

Spent quite a few hours on the backporting biz on wine 1.5.  The structure is totally different so there's a raft of changes to how I managed to backport it.  I'll be posting the changes soon for my own references, but there's definitely quite a few things to do here.

It's building right now, but who knows if it gets to the end?

Got Diablo 3: Starter Edition...

So my friends hooked me up with the Starter Edition keys for Diablo 3.  I'll be rolling up my sleeves to backport Wine and see how far I can play this one.  Not expecting a lot and I didn't like Torchlight.

Aravyan Nocturne

A new story for the Dark Age Chronicles.

Read this.

REVERSION

REVERSION!  Check it out!

Official Site

Dark Age Chronicles Series

This is my collection of the MACE: The Dark Age Fan Fiction.  Have fun with it!

Some random ramblings...

When using mplayer, press 'o'... for the... "Oh sh*t Dis!" haha.

Also watched The Dark Knight Rises.  Wow.  Good movie.  Didn't think Chris would come back for a third one because although I didn't like The Dark Knight as much, I thought the ending was a perfect way to give the series to any director to continue as it establishes Batman's outlaw status.  Kudos to Nolan for coming back and delivering a much better movie.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent - Not a WINE Problem

Took a while, but I've dug up enough evidence to point that this isn't a WINE issue.

Link #1

Also, NVIDIA's 8800 cards were excluded from tests due to rendering errors during gameplay. While the game did run on our 8800, the Sam Fisher model was warped and twisted into a very strange shape making gameplay pretty much impossible, as the image shows below.

Link #2

For what it's worth, if you run into these problems with the game, you can try these fixes to see if they do anything.  They didn't work on my end though.

Run the game with a "-ll" (double 'L's) flag on the game.
"/path/to/splinter/cell/double/agent/SCDALauncher.exe -ll"
or
"/path/to/splinter/cell/double/agent/SCDALauncher.exe -LL"
or
"/path/to/splinter/cell/double/agent/SCDA-Offline/System/SplinterCell4.exe -ll"
or
"/path/to/splinter/cell/double/agent/SCDA-Offline/System/SplinterCell4.exe -LL"

Then try to disable AA and AF.  Not sure what else to try if these don't work.  Driver update?  I don't know.