Originally by: Sevarus James

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This has been mentioned in the apoc thread in the game dev forum. Some people (not just us) are having issues with the patcher. The solution is simple.
download the patcher manually via the link in the thread. download the RTP file manually via the link in the thread.

make sure you have the updated vcrun stuff mentioned in this forum. Then, with the patcher and the RTP file in the SAME DIRECTORY, you run the patcher. It will find the RTP file after you give it the directory you wish to update and it will run.

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Originally by: Mes Ren

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If you are using a 6x or 7x series nvidia card, not likely. I'm having the same issues, as is pretty much everyone that I have come across that is trying to run eve-sisi under wine.

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Originally by: DoRamius

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Mind telling me exactly what I'm not supposed to change in directx.c? You know, so I don't do it.

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Kittens may die, your vid card / computer / house etc may burst into flames etc...

in dlls/wined3d/directx.c

find the line such that:
gl_info->vs_glsl_constantsF - (MAX_CONST_B / 4) - MAX_CONST_I - 1;

and change it to:
gl_info->vs_glsl_constantsF - (MAX_CONST_B / 4) - 1;


This will provide enough spare uniforms for the shaders to compile.

Replace your wined3d.dll.so with the newly compiled one (make a backup of your existing one). If your using a binary package it may be located in /usr/lib/wine.

** This will affect any other wine programs you run as your replacing this system wide.

Background:

I don't know enough to speak intelligently on this topic, but.... Your card, via the openGL spec, has a value for GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS_ARB. This value for 7x series cards is 1024. This is the number of uniforms that can be used by a single shader program.

Wine reserves a fixed number of these.
gl_info->vs_glsl_constantsF == # of MAX_UNIFORM_ARBS from your HW (1024 on 7x series cards) divided by 4

The above on a 7x series card = 256 available vec4 uniforms.

so gl_info->vs_glsl_constantsF = 256 on a 7x card

MAX_CONST_B is the number of boolean uniforms to reserve. MAX_CONST_B is statically defined as 16, the divide by 4 is because the boolean size is 1 byte.

MAX_CONST_I is the number of integer uniforms to reserve. Here again the statically reserved # is 16. Each integer size is 4 bytes. << this is where you lose most of the space for the vec4 array.

And then -1 for another set of vars....

This leads to a max vec4 array size of 235. If any shader program indexes a vec4 array beyond this the shader will not compile. You get a glsl error from the compiler and no nothing is displayed when that shader is called for.

Since wine does not auto adjust how many bools or ints that are required for each shader. You get a hard limit of 235. Some shaders in the apoc client attempt to index up to 246 ... based on the DX9 to GLSL translation.

This means at a minimum you need the shader to be defined with a uniform vec4 VC[247]; as the initializaton portion. Otherwise bigger shaders will just not compile.

Removing the uniform INT reservation provides this room. Giving 235 + 16 = 251 available vec4's for the array.

Drawbacks:
Scanning the shaders via the wine debug output no VI or VB declarations were found. As long as that continues to remain the case this *should* work for the short term.

If VI's exist (as not every shader is exposed to the client until its needed) then if enough of them + vec4 array indexes are used then you'd have an overwriting of the card memory. While it's unlikely it's possible that you could brick your card.

If its not a true HW limit .. nvidia could increase the available uniforms that are reported through glxinfo -l, or wine will have to change the implementation of the glsl dynamic reservation of ints and bools as they are used the shader. Which would allow the vec4 array to grow and shrink based on bool / int usage (per shader).

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Originally by: Sevarus James

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Edited by: Sevarus James on 28/02/2009 17:37:19
New build 6.10.82390 is now out. The combined patcher works for the incremental upgrade from the game dev patches sticky.

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#!/bin/bash


#echo "available patches: "
#curl -s http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/server_status.php | grep -o 'evepremiumpatch[0-9]\{5\}-[0-9]\{5\}_test.exe' | cut -c 16-26

current_build="`egrep '^build=' "${HOME}/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/CCP/EVESISI/common.ini" | tr -d "\r" | cut -d= -f2`"
echo "Current build for EVESISI/common.ini: ${current_build}"

echo "available patches: (for your build) "
curl -s http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/server_status.php | grep -o 'evepremiumpatch[0-9]\{5\}-[0-9]\{5\}_test.exe' | cut -c 16-26 | egrep "^${current_build}"


read -p 'Current Release #: ' cur_rel
read -p 'Desired Release #: ' des_rel

if [ -z "$cur_rel" -o -z "$des_rel" ]; then
 echo "Terminated"
 exit 1
fi

rtp_filename="EVEPREMIUM.6.10.${cur_rel}-6.10.${des_rel}_TEST.RTP"
exe_filename="evepremiumpatch${cur_rel}-${des_rel}_test.exe"

# kill running processes if any
killall -9 "${exe_filename}" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

# cd to the directory where the files go
cd "${HOME}/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/${USER}/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/c_program_files_ccp_evesisi_87.237.38.50/cache/"

# download the exe if it doesn't exist
[ -f "${exe_filename}" ] || wget "http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/test/${exe_filename}"

if [ ! -f "${exe_filename}" ]; then
 echo "EXE Download Failed"
 exit 2
fi

#download the rtp if it doesn't exist
[ -f "${rtp_filename}" ] || wget "http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/test/${rtp_filename}"

if [ ! -f "${rtp_filename}" ]; then
 echo "RTP Download Failed"
 exit 2
fi

# run the exe file now
#wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\${USER}\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\CCP\\EVE\\c_program_files_ccp_evesisi_87.237.38.50\\cache\\evepremiumpatch${cur_rel}-${des_rel}_test.exe"
wine "C:/windows/profiles/${USER}/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/c_program_files_ccp_evesisi_87.237.38.50/cache/evepremiumpatch${cur_rel}-${des_rel}_test.exe" "C:/windows/profiles/${USER}/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/c_program_files_ccp_evesisi_87.237.38.50/cache/evepremiumpatch${cur_rel}-${des_rel}_test.exe" "/path=C:/Program Files/CCP/EVESISI/"