v0.8.8 on Mac under Wine

Sorbus · Feb 26, 2010

Hi All,

Racer loads, shows 3D content in the car selection screen, but can't connect to the local host server when starting a race.

This is a snippet of the QLOG:

Fri Feb 26 00:56:15 (WARN): QNClient:Connect(); failed to create enet peer; out of connections
Fri Feb 26 00:56:19 (ERR): Can't connect to server '127.0.0.1'

Any ideas? I'm quite new to WINE. How do I make sure the app can find the local host?

Cheers,

Sorbus

PS, nice to find so many familiar faces over here. It's been a while since I was into Racer.

Tiberius · Feb 26, 2010

Hi Sorbus, long time no see :smile:. Got your message, I'll try and get into my emails tomorrow (haven't touched that addy for ages now, will see if it's still online :frown

.

I managed to get 086 working under Wine, but on Linux. Someone (I think it was Bub73) posted some instructions on RSC about installing Racer via Wine on Linux (might help you, even on a Mac?) but alas it's all lost now.

Bub73 · Feb 28, 2010

Check your firewall settings first; then on linux I run "sudo xhost +" this gives wine/racer access to the screen and desktop.
Starting racer form a terminal will give feed back if there is an error, it has to be called correctly under wine on linux I don't know much about a Mac.
Here is my call for racer under wine on linux, maybe it will help.

sh -c "cd .wine/drive_c/Program*Files/racer084/&& wine racer.exe" or

sh -c "cd .wine/drive_c/Program*Files/racer084/Raven/&& wine Raven.exe"
if you like Raven

Bub73

citronized · Mar 1, 2010

Tried it w/o succes

Hi,

I've been trying the Mac version of CrossOver Games (Wine app dedicated to games) this week-end without success, and with the same Qlog error described in first post. Using the xhost+ command didn't helped, neither did the sh one : opening racer.exe with Terminal didn't showed me any error report…

Did someone succeed ?

Bub73 · Mar 1, 2010

Can you ping 127.0.0.1 and ping localhost ok?
Also when/if racer starts see if you can use the lobby function it may give a clue as to what is wrong.

Bub73

Sorbus · Mar 1, 2010

Thanks for the replies!

Firewall is off. Can launch racer.exe from command line or by double clicking. Same result as before. No feedback in the Terminal nor the Console other than that I've launched wine and racer.exe

I get "64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms" when I ping localhost or 127.0.0.1

I can load lobby mode. It's the first time I've used this in Racer, so not quite sure what to do.

Cheers,

Sorbus

Sorbus · Mar 1, 2010

okay,

I've also tried this:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-0344b4325219c69636aeffeaa3596d6855283afd

and changing the racer.ini to not use 127.0.0.1 for multiplayer...

no joy.

citronized · Mar 1, 2010

Same here.

I've open a thread on CrossOver Games forum, but still no solution there neither : http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6174;forum=1;msg=75070

If I understand correctly, it could be due to Mac OS OpenGL's functions unavailable…

Sorbus · Mar 1, 2010

when I have LittleSnitch running (a network monitor) it shows that Wine tries to connect to 127.12.34.56 on UDP port 25000

I even tried adding this to my /private/etc/hosts file with no luck :-(

Bub73 · Mar 2, 2010

I don't know if it will help but heres my etc/host file.

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 bub-desktop1

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Bub73

citronized · Mar 2, 2010

Still haven't find a clue to my issues, but it seems cross over v9.0 will be available in a few hours, maybe it solves the compatibility with Racer *hope*

Bub73 · Mar 2, 2010

Have you configured wine for racer and set the windows version, sound and let it detect all your drives etc ?
winecfg

Also have you installed all the required libraries or windows dll's into wine.
If not just google wine tricks for a script that will make it easy to install them correctly.

Bub73

Sorbus · Mar 3, 2010

Wine on Mac has XP as default. I've installed the Direct 3D dll's using Wine Tricks, and have set the graphic options to a low level in Racer itself. Is there any other way I can check that the dll's are working okay, such as a test program that has similar requirements to Racer?

Thanks for the help so far!

Bub73 · Mar 3, 2010

Have you installed vcredist_x86_vc2008sp1.exe into wine for racer ?

Also I copied fmodex.dll to my wine system32 folder; you could try setting racer to nosound and test it, sound can cause a lot of trouble under wine sometimes.

Bub73

citronized · Mar 12, 2010

Hi,

Looking deeper into this connection issue, with Ruud's help, we've almost (or kind of) solved the problem (at least on my configuration : Nvidia 9400M and Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro) :
1. Launch racer.exe, do not select anything in menu
2. Open racer.ini (in racer's root folder)
3. Look for the "server=127.0.01" value
4. Change it for "server=localhost"
5. Go back to racer, select the menu's "Free driving" or "Quick Racer" entry
6. Should work now!

If you don't have anything to change in game settings (car, track, graphic option, etc.), you can change racer.ini file permissions to read only for all users. This will block racer or OS X to re-write the file, and that's what was causing the issue.

Hope we'll find a more user friendly way to set this, but this trick works fine currently.

Sorbus · Mar 17, 2010

Great! Many thanks!

It works well on my MacBook Pro with 10.5.6

citronized · Mar 17, 2010

Sorbus said:
Great! Many thanks!
It works well on my MacBook Pro with 10.5.6

Another thing you can do is to use Raven, un-checking the "Show menu" option (Misc or Display tab, can't remember now), but you still need to set multiplayer.server to localhost in racer.ini
Using Raven, you don't need to lock the write permissions to your racer.ini file :wink:

Sorbus · Mar 17, 2010

Just set that up too. It works like a treat! Thank you

Is the lack of alpha transparency a wider issue, or just my setup?

Cheers :thumbup:

citronized · Mar 17, 2010

Great, glad it worked.

About alpha transparency, as far as I know, it isn't an issue, but something to set right in the graphic options, in racer.ini. Try enable/disable the major graphic features (bloom/motion blur/auto-exposure/etc.), you should be able to find out the right combo! :biggrin: