https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40083
Bug ID: 40083 Summary: Heroes of the Storm Freezes after its February 2nd Patch Product: Wine Version: 1.7.44 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: vexorian@gmail.com Distribution: ---
It appears there is no bug report on this even though it is being reported by multiple people.
Heroes of the Storm worked fine in WINE until the most recent patch. Now starting a match has a very high chance to freeze the game up between 0 and 30 seconds after the match starts (after the loading screen). Killing the process and starting the game again makes it tell you you need to rejoin the game, and the rejoin process will also freeze, possibly because HotS' game rejoining process makes it repeat all the game's actions in the background.
There appears to be a low probability chance that the freeze will not happen, which causes some reports of people claiming to fix the issue by changing graphics settings or changing the hero composition / game mode. Only to later report that the game is freezing again.
Reports specify various WINE versions including staging 1.9.2. In my case it's 1.7.44, which is why I am including that version in the report.
I tried enabled debugging text but the output doesn't report anything that coincides with the lock up and the text output seems roughly the same as it was before. I can provide the output text when I have more time if needed.
app db thread: https://appdb.winehq.org/commentview.php?iAppId=15978&iVersionId=32232&a...
Battle net thread: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/20419814648?page=1