New subject: [Bug 57411] Heroes of the Storm: screen sporadically flickers black

12 Nov 2024

      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57411

            Bug ID: 57411
           Summary: Heroes of the Storm: screen sporadically flickers
                    black
           Product: Wine
           Version: 8.4
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: d3d
          Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
          Reporter: matteo.mystral(a)gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

You can already notice it in the login screen you get by running the game
directly (.../Support64/HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe).

Regression test blames:

46c8a637525d0f1cf67830295fb460c819b800b6 is the first bad commit
commit 46c8a637525d0f1cf67830295fb460c819b800b6
Author: Zebediah Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 20 16:23:42 2023 -0600

    winex11: Separately store the internal pixel format set by
WGL_WINE_pixel_format_passthrough.

 dlls/d3d8/tests/device.c  |  6 +++---
 dlls/d3d9/tests/device.c  |  6 +++---
 dlls/ddraw/tests/ddraw1.c |  6 +++---
 dlls/ddraw/tests/ddraw2.c |  6 +++---
 dlls/ddraw/tests/ddraw4.c |  6 +++---
 dlls/ddraw/tests/ddraw7.c |  6 +++---
 dlls/winex11.drv/opengl.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
 7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Although effectively it seems to be kind of a bad interaction with my commit
72597b170e814599ef2be4b19dc4b9de0932a30f "wined3d: Don't use separate GL
contexts for different swapchains." compounded with wined3d being a bit
overeager with switching window for GL contexts.

The game uses D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain() to initialize the device and
(AFAICS) always uses the returned swapchain to do all its work. Except, every
now and then (about once every ~4 frames?) it clears the implicit swapchain's
back buffer.

At the moment, wined3d_context_gl_acquire() never attempts to reuse the current
context if it has NULL target (e.g. because the texture that was used for the
original activation of the context was released in the meantime, which is
always the case when this bug triggers). What effectively happens for such
(offscreen) clears is that wined3d activates the GL context on the implicit
swapchain, on a different window, and that resets internal_format_set (see
wined3d_context_gl_update_window()) which leads to resetting the pixel format
on it. Soon afterwards the game will do some operation that requires the "real"
swapchain (e.g. Present()) and wined3d will reactivate the context on the
explicit swapchain, bouncing back and forth between the two swapchains /
windows and resetting pixel format every time.

I guess one way to fix this in general would be to keep per-window values for
the current pixel format / internal format set flag in struct
wined3d_context_gl, so that we avoid spurious pixel format resets when flipping
through multiple windows.

In this case though, it's enough to always allow reusing the current context if
we don't need to access any on-screen resource. I'm going to open an MR that
does just that in a bit.

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