New subject: [Bug 58574] Multiple applications require gameinput.dll (Fritz Chess Coach, Le Mans Ultimate)

7 Aug 2025

      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58574

            Bug ID: 58574
           Summary: Multiple applications require gameinput.dll (Fritz
                    Chess Coach, Le Mans Ultimate)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.12
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
          Reporter: alexhenrie24(a)gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

First reported at https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=38129

Steps to reproduce:

1. Purchase and download Fritz from
https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/fritz_your_chess_coach

2. Run `wine FritzCoachSetup.msi`, enter your license key, and complete setup

3. Run `wine 'C:\Program Files\ChessBase\Fritz - Your chess
coach\FritzDX12.exe'`

The problem is pretty obvious:

0024:err:module:import_dll Library GameInput.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\Program Files\\ChessBase\\Fritz - Your chess coach\\FritzDX12.exe") not
found
0024:err:module:loader_init Importing dlls for L"C:\\Program
Files\\ChessBase\\Fritz - Your chess coach\\FritzDX12.exe" failed, status
c0000135

With the patch from
<https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8338>, FritzDX12.exe gets
farther: It displays an error dialog that says "This computer does not support
DirectX 12." `winetricks vkd3d` fixes that, and then the error dialog changes
to "Gaming Services Runtime is not installed on this system or needs updating."
To get past that error, you need to extract xgameruntime.dll and its dependency
gameconfighelper.dll from the SetupGamingServices.exe program that is also
available on the Fritz website:

7z e SetupGamingServices.exe GamingServices.appxbundle
7z e GamingServices.appxbundle GamingServicesTcui-Package_7.70.13002.0_x64.appx
7z e GamingServicesTcui-Package_7.70.13002.0_x64.appx xgameruntime.dll
7z e GamingServicesTcui-Package_7.70.13002.0_x64.appx gameconfighelper.dll
cp xgameruntime.dll gameconfighelper.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

Fritz then crashes on the unimplemented function
api-ms-win-shcore-taskpool-l1-1-0.dll.SHTaskPoolQueueTask, which is
undocumented. I followed the instructions at
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Wine-Developer's-Guide/Other-Debugging-Techniques
to determine that the 32-bit version of the function takes 24 bytes of
arguments, guessed that the 24 bytes are 6 pointers, added a stub, and got past
the crash. Then I ran into XML parsing problems:

0140:err:msxml:Schema_parse error code 1756: Element
'{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}pattern': The value
'[^<>":%\|\?\*\x01-\x1f]+' of the facet 'pattern' is not a valid regular
expression.
0140:err:msxml:Schema_parse error code 1756: Element
'{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}pattern': The value '\bms-resource:.{1,256}'
of the facet 'pattern' is not a valid regular expression.
0140:err:msxml:Schema_parse error code 1756: Element
'{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}pattern': The value '[^\x01-\x1f]+' of the
facet 'pattern' is not a valid regular expression.
0140:fixme:msxml:cache_entry_from_xsd_doc failed to parse doc

`winetricks msxml6` didn't fix the problem. It merely changed the error message
to:

0140:err:ole:apartment_add_dll couldn't load in-process dll
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msxml6.dll"

That's where I stopped. None of these problems seems insurmountable. For now
let's focus on the first one, the lack of gameinput.dll. After that's fixed, I
can open new bug reports for the next problems.

$ sha256sum FritzCoachSetup.msi SetupGamingServices.exe
9139110cb9ee94f87fe2a98dafaeaf24c7d5dfc3e246f6f97d0af65f282fadf9 
FritzCoachSetup.msi
4f936785e9ed87e296c8e8fdb24ab757d8781580ddddd3d69c1471bc2cc2a700 
SetupGamingServices.exe

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