Comments on: How-To: Configure Future Pinball to play in Linux through Wine

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:19:14 +0000

Glad to have FP back on my PC where it belongs without the hassle of dual booting to Windows!

I can play Lunch take out to my hearts content now

By: r3dux

r3dux — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:10:55 +0000

Awesome job – you’ve nailed it!

I was twiddling DLLs and table scripts a little here and there to try and get it working, but fair play to you, fella – proper solved – excellent work! Wine 1.2.2 FTW!

I’ve stuck a note at the top of the article pointing at your fix =D

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:32:34 +0000

SOLVED

After switching dll versions until I ran out of options I hunted the web and found a reference on a forum to PlayOnLinux. I installed it directly from the Ubuntu Software Centre and found that Future Pinball is listed as a supported game.

I selected Future Pinbal and installed. At the step where PlayOnLinux gives the choice of downloading automatically or use a local file, I selected use local file and selected “FuturePinballSetup_v1.9.1.20101231.exe” which I already had downloaded.

After installing it I fired up FP and it works perfectly. It seems that the trick is that PlayOnLinux uses WINE 1.2.2.

By: r3dux

r3dux — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:14:35 +0000

Well that’s interesting to know… There has to be a way to get FP working properly with playfields… maybe different versions of oleaut32.dll might help, or if it’s really a VRAM issue starting the table in debug mode might give some error messages which confirm it? It’s got to be do-able…

By: Iain

Iain — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:20:15 +0000

I tried that… No joy.

The odd thing is, if I install FP in Wine without your tweaks, the playfield loads fine, it just doesn’t allow for inserting coins etc as described at the start of your post, so I obviously have enough video memory, but using oleaut32.dll scrubs the playfield. Odd.

By: r3dux

r3dux — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:06:55 +0000

You could try disabling textures in the editor to try to save enough video memory to display the playfield… It’s under: Preferences | Editor Options | Load image into Table Editor

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:27:11 +0000

Thanks, this works for quite a few tables, but my all time fav. table Lunch Take Out refuses to load the playfiels texture. Any suggestions?

By: r3dux

r3dux — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:42:35 +0000

With oleaut32.dll I can start games, without it I get exact symptoms you describe - are you sure you put the dll in the same folder as "Future Pinball.exe" and did the Step 3 dll preferences to prefer native over builtin? If so, try adding any/all of (might be best to add one at a time - copy each into the same folder as "Future Pinball.exe" and use winecfg to prefer native over built-in for the Future Pinball.exe application as per step 3):

crypt32.dll
ole32.dll
rsaenh.dll
urlmon.dll

You can get these dll's by downloading and extracting dcom98.exe As a last resort, you could try the FPWine script - but I didn't get much joy from it. I did find out that it tries to register the above DLL's from it though. Hope this helps.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:32:53 +0000

Followed this exactly and just cannot get the game to start; can nudge and change views and everything, but insert coin, start, and plunger don’t function.

I’ve added the DLL, any way to ensure Wine is using it to run the exe? Any other ideas?