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BadWindow error

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gvlfm78 Friday 16 May 2014 at 18:42
gvlfm78Anonymous

Hello,
I am here on the PlayOnLinux forum after hours of research on google trying to fix this POL problem, including looking at some old posts, but nothing seems to work.

System specs:
I am currently using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 'Trusty' with POL 4.2.2.
I have a Radeon HD 5450 with proprietary drivers installed off the website, because they give better options and the Catalyst Control Center works. (The problem here occured with the OpenSource drivers too)

I have installed Valve's Steam platform directly through POL, and it never worked properly.
What happens is I can install game, the whole platform works fine, but when I go to launch them they start launching but then just exit, sometimes their window flashes on the screen, sometimes they just never start.

I have been in the configuration options for POL on the Steam drive and have installed a few packages I though might have been important, like .NET and thing as such.

Steam on POL was by default using Wine 1.5.25, I switched it to Wine 1.7.17-WGL_WINE_surface, and the problem was still present.

So I went into the Steam drive's wine potions, and found out that if I enable a virtual desktop the games will launch, but they will be extremely laggy and keyboard controls won't work-basically unplayable.

I have here the debug message for when I try to launch a game:



[05/16/14 17:52:43] - Running wine-1.7.17-WGL_WINE_surface Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/ciro/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Steam/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
[0516/175247:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(417)] Failed to load C:\Program Files\Steam\bin\chrome.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0516/175247:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  7 (X_ReparentWindow)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  257
  Current serial number in output stream:  2304
[0516/175257:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
[0516/175305:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
Starting Ace of Spades...
Debug: False
2014-05-16 17:53:07+0200 [-] Log opened.
2014-05-16 17:53:07+0200 [-] AoS client started on 05/16/14 17:53:07
Steam User logged on
2014-05-16 17:53:08+0200 [-] steam_interface.InitializeClient returned 0
2014-05-16 17:53:08+0200 [-] Your Python version is 2.7.5
2014-05-16 17:53:08+0200 [-] Current client build: 163
2014-05-16 17:53:08+0200 [-] Language detected:  italian
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Strings imported
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Config loaded
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] debug_gl is off
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Starting MSAA Compatibility test
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Finished MSAA Compatibility test
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Loading images
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Setting texture quality
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Indexing images
2014-05-16 17:53:09+0200 [-] Starting loading screen...
2014-05-16 17:53:10+0200 [-] Setting icons
2014-05-16 17:53:10+0200 [-] Initializing GLEW
2014-05-16 17:53:10+0200 [-] Setting default OpenGL settings
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  10 (X_UnmapWindow)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5000003
  Serial number of failed request:  223
  Current serial number in output stream:  226
[0516/175311:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(417)] Failed to load C:\Program Files\Steam\bin\chrome.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0516/175311:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
[0516/175337:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
[05/16/14 17:54:08] - Running wine-1.7.17-WGL_WINE_surface Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/ciro/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Steam/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0


I hope somebody here will help me fix this problem soon,
and thanks in advance,
gvlfm78

gvlfm78 Saturday 17 May 2014 at 21:12
gvlfm78Anonymous

[Bump] Any help?
gvlfm78 Saturday 24 May 2014 at 10:29
gvlfm78Anonymous

Anybody here can help?

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