Running into a nodrv_CreateWindow error with wine

Hello LotRO Mac Forum,

I have recently encountered a problem with the LotRO live client, and wondered if someone here might be able to help me problem solve, seeing as the devs aren't especially Mac-savvy. The gist of my problem is this: I am running OSX 10.14 Mojave, and the live client worked perfectly fine up until today (last played on Friday). However, when I tried to run it this afternoon, I got a "Wine has encountered an error" box that pops up and stops the python loading process for the initial sign-in window.

I peeked at the error log, and noticed there was mention of a "nodrv_CreateWindow" error. I tried to reinstall homebrew and update Wine but still get the same error message. The odd part is that my Bullroarer Client loads fine, but the live client does not! :confused: Normally, I run lotro from steam, but I also have the steamapps folder bookmarked to access various executable files. Running the lotro executable directly didn't work either :(

I am attaching my error log to this message with code tags with the hope that maybe someone will see something I missed!

Cheers,
Throilo

Code:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000010 in 32-bit code (0x651811a0). Register dump: CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1007 GS:000f EIP:651811a0 ESP:0032f8bc EBP:65060b7e EFLAGS:00010202( R- -- I - - - ) EAX:00000000 EBX:ffffffff ECX:00000000 EDX:655a929c ESI:006a5740 EDI:0001004a Stack dump: 0x0032f8bc: 650c7df2 003b0056 503e1313 00ab4140 0x0032f8cc: 00000000 00ab40f8 ffffffff 00000000 0x0032f8dc: 00000004 006a5740 655b1b5c 005d0000 0x0032f8ec: 00000000 00000028 ffffffff 9af9f482 0x0032f8fc: 00200001 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0032f90c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw- Backtrace: =>0 0x651811a0 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in qtgui4 (0x65060b7e) 0x651811a0 EntryPoint+0xffffffff in qtgui4: movl 0x10(%ecx),%eax Modules: Module Address Debug info Name (311 modules) PE 370000- 3b5000 Deferred ssleay32 PE 400000- 5c3000 Deferred lotrolauncher PE 9290000- 93ab000 Deferred libeay32 PE 10000000-10c88000 Deferred qtwebkit4 ELF 201cf000-201f9000 Deferred jsproxy<elf> \-PE 201d0000-201eb000 \ jsproxy ELF 21306000-21348000 Deferred rsaenh<elf> \-PE 21310000-21344000 \ rsaenh ELF 21348000-213a0000 Deferred winhttp<elf> \-PE 21350000-2138d000 \ winhttp PE 61000000-6105b000 Deferred qtxml4 PE 64000000-64106000 Deferred qtnetwork4 PE 65000000-65838000 Export qtgui4 PE 67000000-67280000 Deferred qtcore4 ELF 68001000-68005000 Deferred <wine-loader> PE 68005000-681c9000 Deferred libwine.1.0.dylib ELF 681eb000-681ff000 Deferred wow64cpu<elf> \-PE 681f0000-681fe000 \ wow64cpu PE 687f4000-687fc000 Deferred libffi.6.dylib ELF 6a882000-6a89c000 Deferred version<elf> \-PE 6a890000-6a89a000 \ version ELF 6a89c000-6a8c4000 Deferred shcore<elf> \-PE 6a8a0000-6a8bc000 \ shcore ELF 6a8c4000-6a8e1000 Deferred aclui<elf> \-PE 6a8d0000-6a8de000 \ aclui ELF 6a8e1000-6a8fb000 Deferred imagehlp<elf> \-PE 6a8f0000-6a8f9000 \ imagehlp ELF 6ab00000-6ab85000 Deferred advapi32<elf> \-PE 6ab10000-6ab6c000 \ advapi32 ELF 6ab85000-6b59a000 Deferred shell32<elf> \-PE 6ab90000-6b54a000 \ shell32 ELF 6b59a000-6b62a000 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Deferred libsystem_sandbox.dylib PE a7e1d000-a7e20000 Deferred libsystem_secinit.dylib PE a7e20000-a7e28000 Deferred libsystem_symptoms.dylib PE a7e28000-a7e3d000 Deferred libsystem_trace.dylib PE a7e3e000-a7e45000 Deferred libunwind.dylib PE a7e45000-a7e74000 Deferred libxpc.dylib Threads: process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 0000000e services.exe 00000022 0 0000001d 0 00000015 0 00000010 0 0000000f 0 00000011 winedevice.exe 0000001a 0 00000019 0 00000018 0 00000012 0 0000001b plugplay.exe 0000001f 0 0000001e 0 0000001c 0 00000020 winedevice.exe 00000025 0 00000024 0 00000023 0 00000021 0 00000035 explorer.exe 00000039 0 00000038 0 00000037 0 00000036 0 0000003c (D) C:\Program Files (x86)\StandingStoneGames\The Lord of the Rings Online\LotroLauncher.exe ["C:\Program Files (x86)\StandingStoneGames\The Lord of the Rings Online\LotroLauncher.exe"] 00000042 0 0000003e 0 0000003d 0 <== System information: Wine build: wine-4.5 (Staging) Platform: i386 (WOW64) Version: Windows 7 Host system: Darwin Host version: 18.7.0

Quote:

Originally Posted by fmac81

I am running OSX 10.14 Mojave, and the live client worked perfectly fine up until today (last played on Friday). However, when I tried to run it this afternoon, I got a "Wine has encountered an error" box that pops up and stops the python loading process for the initial sign-in window.

I peeked at the error log, and noticed there was mention of a "nodrv_CreateWindow" error. I tried to reinstall homebrew and update Wine but still get the same error message. The odd part is that my Bullroarer Client loads fine, but the live client does not! :confused: Normally, I run lotro from steam, but I also have the steamapps folder bookmarked to access various executable files. Running the lotro executable directly didn't work either :(

I am attaching my error log to this message with code tags with the hope that maybe someone will see something I missed!

System information:
Wine build: wine-4.5 (Staging)
Platform: i386 (WOW64)
Version: Windows 7
Host system: Darwin
Host version: 18.7.0

The line "Wine build: wine-4.5 (Staging)" indicates that you are attempting to run LOTRO using the very old version of WINE installed as part of SSG's "Mac Download". If this is the error message you received after attempting to run the game following an installation of the current wine-stable (7.0) or wine-devel (7.15), then you either failed to complete the installation of WINE or you did not launch the game in a way that would cause it to be run by the version of WINE you installed using Homebrew – the game is still attempting to launch using the old version of WINE packaged for you by SSG.

Assuming you followed the instructions here...
https://forums.lotro.com/forums/show...pler-procedure
...and successfully installed either wine-stable or wine-devel using Homebrew, you need to launch the game using the method described in Step E in that thread. If you use the "lotroclient" Mac application stub to launch the game, it will launch within the old WINE 4.5 bottle. If you see the Python script window appear before the LOTRO Launcher application opens, the game is launching within the old bottle and is not using the more modern version of WINE you installed or attempted to install via Homebrew.

All that said, there is no good reason you should have run into a problem today when the old version of WINE and the game installation worked for you two days ago. That is odd but sometimes files become corrupted or other odd things happen.

However, getting one of those two recent versions of open-source WINE installed using Homebrew and then launching the game as described in Step E of the first message of the linked thread should work. While it's not impossible it just isn't working for you for a reason we have not yet determined, it is more likely that you made an error installing WINE or attempting to launch LOTRO using the more modern version of WINE which you installed.

Please try again, and if the game fails to run using wine-stable WINE 7.0 or wine-devel WINE 7.15 (depending on which version you install as part of Step D), please give me the details about your Mac (exact model, amount of RAM, video card, amount of VRAM) and a dump of your UserPreferences.ini file (with your account name redacted) and we'll work together from there to figure something out that will get you back into the game. Also, please tell me if there is any difference between how you are launching the Bullroarer version of the game vs how you are launching the standard version of the game.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tralfazz

The line "Wine build: wine-4.5 (Staging)" indicates that you are attempting to run LOTRO using the very old version of WINE installed as part of SSG's "Mac Download". If this is the error message you received after attempting to run the game following an installation of the current wine-stable (7.0) or wine-devel (7.15), then you either failed to complete the installation of WINE or you did not launch the game in a way that would cause it to be run by the version of WINE you installed using Homebrew – the game is still attempting to launch using the old version of WINE packaged for you by SSG.

Assuming you followed the instructions here...
https://forums.lotro.com/forums/show...pler-procedure
...and successfully installed either wine-stable or wine-devel using Homebrew, you need to launch the game using the method described in Step E in that thread. If you use the "lotroclient" Mac application stub to launch the game, it will launch within the old WINE 4.5 bottle. If you see the Python script window appear before the LOTRO Launcher application opens, the game is launching within the old bottle and is not using the more modern version of WINE you installed or attempted to install via Homebrew.

All that said, there is no good reason you should have run into a problem today when the old version of WINE and the game installation worked for you two days ago. That is odd but sometimes files become corrupted or other odd things happen.

However, getting one of those two recent versions of open-source WINE installed using Homebrew and then launching the game as described in Step E of the first message of the linked thread should work. While it's not impossible it just isn't working for you for a reason we have not yet determined, it is more likely that you made an error installing WINE or attempting to launch LOTRO using the more modern version of WINE which you installed.

Please try again, and if the game fails to run using wine-stable WINE 7.0 or wine-devel WINE 7.15 (depending on which version you install as part of Step D), please give me the details about your Mac (exact model, amount of RAM, video card, amount of VRAM) and a dump of your UserPreferences.ini file (with your account name redacted) and we'll work together from there to figure something out that will get you back into the game. Also, please tell me if there is any difference between how you are launching the Bullroarer version of the game vs how you are launching the standard version of the game.

Thank you for the reply! I thought there was something odd about Wine being only version 4.5! I have done as suggested by your thread and do indeed have 2 wine processes installed, and I have selected the newer one when I use the LotroLauncher.exe. However, I am running into a new problem where the client gets hung up on processing the Visual C++ components. Normally I bypass it by quitting the most-CPU-heavy wine-preloader process in Activity Monitor and it'll miraculously work (at least with the BR client which this often pops up for). But there is no high-CPU-using process to cancel with the live client. It sounds like your game loaded fine at that stage and mine does not once I get to the components screen. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I do have DX9 listed in my UserPreferences.ini already, and client type is set to be the 64 bit.

Will upload my UserPreferences.ini in another post.

Thanks,
Throllo

Well somehow it got through the components screen and now I am at the login page. Fingers crossed...

Edit: I have a new error message after I typed in my credentials. It asked me to assign the 64 bit client executable so I clicked on lotroclient64.exe, then had this window pop up. Good grief. Trying with the 32 bit and seeing if that works. :confused:

https://i.postimg.cc/V0Qxryzk/Screen...t-15-25-14.png

Throllo

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Originally Posted by fmac81

Well somehow it got through the components screen and now I am at the login page. Fingers crossed...

Edit: I have a new error message after I typed in my credentials. It asked me to assign the 64 bit client executable so I clicked on lotroclient64.exe, then had this window pop up. Good grief. Trying with the 32 bit and seeing if that works. :confused:

https://i.postimg.cc/V0Qxryzk/Screen...t-15-25-14.png

Throllo

That indicates you are attempting to launch the 64-bit client in an environment which lacks support for that application. The only reason that is likely to occur is if the game client is attempting to launch using the version of WINE included with SSG's "Mac Download" package, WINE 4, rather than WINE 7. The 32-bit client should work in the WINE 4 environment, but the 64-bit client as it is currently built by SSG cannot. See this old thread for another example of this occurring:
https://forums.lotro.com/forums/show...rossover-(mac)

You should be able to get the game to launch using the 64-bit client in the WINE 7 environment by doing the following, ASSUMING YOU HAVE WINE 7 INSTALLED:
1- Restart your Mac.
2- Edit your UserPreferences.ini file so that...
GameClientType=3
3- Open two Finder windows.
4- In the first window, navigate to...
~/Library/Application Support/com.standingstonegames.lotro/common/wineprefix/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StandingStoneGames/The Lord of the Rings Online
...and in that The Lord of the Rings Online folder, find the LotroLauncher.exe file.
5- In the second window, navigate to...
/Applications
...and in your Applications folder, find the Wine Stable or Wine Devel application. (You should have only one of those two, depending on which version of WINE 7 you installed.)
6- Drag the LotroLauncher.exe file on top of the Wine Stable/Wine Devel application. Be careful to not move the LotroLauncher.exe file into the /Applications folder, you just want to drop it on top of the Wine Stable/Wine Devel application so that application will be the one creating the environment for LotroLauncher.exe to launch.
7- You might be asked to grant some permissions. Do so if asked. Sometimes you need to grant the permissions and then try to start up LOTRO again – do so by following Step 6 if needed.

edited to add:
Please open your Terminal application and enter this command:

Code:

wine --version

And tell me the output of that command in your next message.