Spring RTS Engine

Looks like wine doesn't like the new lobby. Whenever I minimize the client, it just disappears; it's there in the process list, but I know of no way to bring it back to the desktop, and I need to minimize it because it takes a lot of cpu. Any ideas?

I can't get wine to let me move the actual game to the front. The lobby always wants to be the front window. Unfortunately, this makes the game unplayable... Now I have to wait for linux<->windows playability, it looks like.

Anyone gotten it working under wine yet with the new version?

It works for me, but it is a hassle with the new lobby. I will post details later.

it works better if you disable the new skins, try that and see if you can get it to work.

Yeah, wine doesn't like the new lobby. Some things that I do to make it manageable:
a) set spring to run in a window (have to get used to scrolling with arrow keys, though)
b) open a private message window, so the whole player list isn't updated - this causes those periodic slowdowns
c) move it down the screen when the game is loading so only the title bar is visible
d) when the game is passworded, the top window sometimes completely covers the passwod dialog; enter the password anyway :)

it doesn't really disppears; if you notice in the bottom left corner of the screen you will notice 2 possible small boxes: 1 is for the battle screen and 1 for the lobby; beware that sometimes the bar of your window manager overlaps on them, try to hide the bar and you may see them

It doesn't work for me, it'd be a godsend if it would... just upgraded to wine 0.9.23 btw.

It seems to work for me (tried just one game, but it behaved ok). As stated above, I put the skin to none and the option that says all forms to task bar.

I do not know about the slowdowns as I played just a test for 5 minutes.

I have wine 9.2.2 on a gentoo system.

I tried a few ways to run it, the only way that really worked for me (apart from forcing a desktop), was to tell winecfg to NOT let my window manager manage the windows for tasclient.exe and spring.exe. TASClient and Spring are always on top, but at least TASClient's popups will pop up not under and spring will be on top when a game starts instead of the lobby.

malric wrote:the option that says all forms to task bar

The key part :) Didn't notice this one. It works now :)

Does anybody have sound ?

Spring (as in spring.exe) does not work with 0.9.24. It pops up the window and then disapears, although the game appears to still be running without any display (It eats all my CPU).

Works for me (tm) in 0.9.24 using a windows 95 profile. I always use a separet X server for spring since I'm in XGL, so these window issues aren't a problem for me. My script (put on your TASpring folder):

sudo X :1 -ac &
DISPLAY=:1 metacity &
DISPLAY=:1 wine TASClient.exe

thanks for the tips guys. I'm back in the game. Running in a separate window is what did it.