[Bug 55364] Shadow Empire crashes on startup with an error related to SharpDX and Direct2D.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55364

--- Comment #5 from Nikolay Sivov  ---
(In reply to Ignat Insarov from comment #4)
> (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #3)
> > We don't have any builtin effects implemented at the moment.
>
> What if we were to add one effect that does nothing and give it to anyone
> who asks? What are these «effects» anyway? How hard can it be?

It's documented here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct2d/effects-overview, if
you're interested.
> Surely we do
> not have to let the whole program die because of this.

Your frustration is understandable. When program creates something that it
expects to always exist, it often crashes.