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[noko]

Hi folks. Thank you for the great service.

 

Red Alert 2 running very well on MAC OS X (include latest Mavericks and Snow Leopard) in preconfigured Wine emulator.

 

Here is the wrapper http://paulthetall.com/red-alert-2-mac/  maintained by Paul The Tall. 

 

Wrapper comes without game itself, and you need to install it from your own media. It successfully runs RA2 & Yuri's Revenge from First Decade DVD. Even with patch from cncftw.com. 

 

Unfortunately it fails to run RA2 from xwis.net.

 

I know that Xwis installer makes some magic on final steps during installation, that probably doing wrong in Wineskin wrapper.

 

It will be nice to figure out how to fix it and make Xwis distro for MAC OS.

 

 

Here is debug log:

fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0x32fc04 0x0): stub
err:module:attach_process_dlls "WSOCK32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Ra2\\Red Alert 2.exe" failed, status c0000142

[FReQuEnZy]

What if you patch the xwis distro with the UOP?

[noko]

What if you patch the xwis distro with the UOP?

 

I have performed the following steps:

 

1. Install original xwis distro from xwis.net/downloads/Red-Alert-2-Multiplayer.exe

2. Install UOP  "RA2_XWIS_Unofficial_Patch_v1.6.8.exe" in same dir 

 

I can run Ra2.exe but when I go to Internet -> Manage Usernames it returns the error:

The Westwood API is either missing or corrupt....

"Red Alert 2.exe" returns the same error.

[FReQuEnZy]

Strange, as the UOP contains the WOL components. As should the XWIS client.

Are these the only installation mediums that you have experimented with? TFD DVD and the XWIS MP client?

 

The XWIS client uses a modified version of the game.exe, my patch includes a modified version of that exe, which is used as the default for my patch, but it also includes the original CD exe's. (ra2.exe and game.exe which I've modified.)

 

I wonder could it be that Wine doesn't register the wolapi.dll...

[noko]

Are these the only installation mediums that you have experimented with? TFD DVD and the XWIS MP client?

 

I was try some others distros of Ra2 preconfigured for internet game and get same error "API is either missing or corrupt..." 

 

Guys from www.ra2.in advice to run this bat script:

 

 

 

pushd "%~dp0"
start regsvr32 /s "%~dp0Ra2inAPI.dll"
start regsvr32 /s "%~dp0Blowfish.dll"
popd

 

Most likely that problem in regsvr32 registering dll's. I don't know how to check if it registering correct and how to register dll's manually.

 

 

Also i found that Xwis installer trying to connect to internet during installation process, what they need? 

Edited by noko, 20 May 2014 - 07:12 PM.

[FReQuEnZy]

Well from what I know XWIS MP RA2 Installer registers the WOL dll and so does my patch, but no the blowfish.dll.

Also from what I know the blowfish is used just by the game engine to decrypt the mix files and their content. So it shouldn't really be needed.

 

I would guess that the XWIS installer is trying to download the maps patch.

Edited by FReQuEnZy, 20 May 2014 - 11:32 PM.

[noko]

What actually means "registering dll"? How can I check if dll register or not? 

[FReQuEnZy]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/620858/what-does-registering-a-dll-do

[Gokhan]

i am going to try installing the game from my cd. any progress running the xwis version?

[DnB]

i really hope this gets resolved, i am also trying to use wine to run ra2 but exe. is causing problems

[SirAbbott]

Did this ever get resolved?