[Bug 57085] New: winebus SDL backend seems to always report force feedback effects as playing on linux, confuses BeamNG.drive 0.32.5.0

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57085

            Bug ID: 57085
           Summary: winebus SDL backend seems to always report force
                    feedback effects as playing on linux, confuses
                    BeamNG.drive 0.32.5.0
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: hid
          Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
          Reporter: katharine.chui(a)gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

Wine/Proton users have not been able to use "Fast" update type on BeamNG.drive.

https://www.beamng.com/threads/workaround-to-get-ffb-to-work-on-linux-proton...

After reporting the lack of IDirectInputEffect::Start calls on Wine to
BeamNG.drive, it seems that they will be force issuing ::Start once after
::CreateEffect in a future update, regardless of the output of
::GetEffectStatus, if the change does not break other wheels on windows.

Discussing the issue further with BeamNG.drive developer stenyak on discord,
with "Fast" update type for force feedback, current release of BeamNG.drive
seems to always query effect status using ::GetEffectStatus, and would only
issue ::Start if the effect is not playing.

If my tracing is correct,
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/6e15604c48acd63dd8095a4ce2fd011cb...
always emits effect playing report on hid because on Linux, SDL does not
support SDL_HAPTIC_STATUS.

Due to ::GetEffectStatus flagging effect playing falsely, ::Start is never
issued on Wine, causing effects to never play on the SDL hid backend.

While BeamNG.drive seems to be quite open to doing small fixes to help players
on Wine/Proton as long as it does not break on windows, is there anything that
could be change on this end to make it less confusing for applications that
relies on ::GetEffectStatus going forward?

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