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Lego Racers on Mac & Wineskin not working; GImages.idb missing


Nyte
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Hi folks,

 

I've been trying to install Lego Racers on my Mac using Wine, Wineskin and Crossover.

With all three, I've failed.

 

I've had the most success with Wineskin, by adding the -novideo flag and changing the winecfg version to Windows 98. However, when I run the installer now, I get an error that reads:

I/O error occurred
file GImages.idb
File not found

This occurs after my screen goes black followed by a few white rectangles appearing.

 

I'm at a loss for what to do to solve this and have tried various google searches to no avail.

 

Anyone any ideas as to what I can do?

 

Many thanks,

Nyte

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Hi folks,

 

I've been trying to install Lego Racers on my Mac

I think that's your problem. That'll be ten dollars. :P

But on a serious note, as a Mac user myself, the only other solution you could try (I'm not saying it might work) is to get VMWare Fusion and run Windows from that. But since I don't know if Lego Racers is compatible with emulated Windows 7 then trying to get LR running on VMWare Fusion is a bit of a risk, especially if Lego Racers still doesn't work.

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Hi folks,

 

I've been trying to install Lego Racers on my Mac

I think that's your problem. That'll be ten dollars. :P

But on a serious note, as a Mac user myself, the only other solution you could try (I'm not saying it might work) is to get VMWare Fusion and run Windows from that. But since I don't know if Lego Racers is compatible with emulated Windows 7 then trying to get LR running on VMWare Fusion is a bit of a risk, especially if Lego Racers still doesn't work.

 

 

Oh, that old chestnut haha. If I had a dollar for every time someone's told me that in reply to an issue, I could...

well, I could probably give you those ten dollars?

 

Thanks for your suggestion, but people seem to be able to run it using wine (see here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9757&iTestingId=80153) and I'm not sure why I can't.

 

If anyone had the file GImages.idb from a successful install they could find and send me, that might help?

 

Just a thought, since I had problems with a dll file that, once I had it, eliminated that error.

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grappigegovert

GImages.idb is a file located inside LEGO.JAM, so it's weird that you get that error during the installation.
You could try manually extracting data1.cab from the cd with i5comp/i6comp.

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On 4/15/2015 at 1:12 AM, grappigegovert said:

GImages.idb is a file located inside LEGO.JAM, so it's weird that you get that error during the installation.

You could try manually extracting data1.cab from the cd with i5comp/i6comp.

 

Thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately, I'm not trying to install from a CD (lost mine some time ago), and I don't know where I might find data1.cab nor what i5comp and i6comp are. Would you mind shedding some light on it for me? Sorry haha

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grappigegovert

From where are you trying to install the game then?
Data1.cab is an archive which contains all the data used by the game installer, and i5comp is a program to extract that file. (i6comp is just a different version of i5comp, I'm not sure which one you need for LR)

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JrMasterModelBuilder

I was successful in running LEGO Racers on OS X in the past, on versions that did not have the SafeDisc DRM. I didn't use a 3rd-party wrapper, I built Wine from source using osxwinebuilder, but Wineskin seemed pretty solid when last I used it. Setting the compatibility to Windows 98 was definitely a must.

 

I believe I was also able to run LEGO Racers in a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox. I would be surprised if VMware Fusion cannot run it as well.

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I'm not sure that GImages.idb is necessarily missing.  I got the same message when I tried to run the game with an uncompiled JAM archive (not knowing which version of the game I had).  I think that's probably the first file that LEGOracers.exe looks for inside LEGO.JAM, and if there's a problem with reading the JAM archive, that's the first error the game will encounter.  So I don't think that having a new copy of GImages.idb will help, nor does your problem really have anything to do with that file in particular; I think the game is simply unable to read files from the JAM for whatever reason.  

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I tried doing so, never was very successful, I'll keep watching this, I'll also be looking for possible solutions for ya. :)

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