https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32250
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--- Comment #14 from super_man@post.com --- (In reply to Pekka Paalanen from comment #13)
So I tried PWI again today, Nov 28, 2015, using Wine 1.7.55 as packaged by Gentoo.
Arc is able to log in, Patcher is able to upgrade PWI, and if I start the game directly with 'wine start elementclient.exe startbypatcher', I can log in and interact in the game world. Most icons in the game are still question marks, which severely hinders playability. I suppose you can count that as working then. I do have d3d11 set to "Disable" in winecfg DLL overrides.
I have no idea what might have fixed it. Everything changes all the time, and I test maybe twice a year. The only thing that does not change is my hardware which has been the same since 2010.
One hypothesis I recall having few years ago was the game aborting if certain data files were not found, and the chinese character issue might trigger that. I'm pretty sure the chinese character issue is responsible for the question mark icons. The game may have changed, the files may have changed...
I believe the fundamental problem with this game are the chinese file names, as explained before. I suppose that is off-topic for this bug report, judging from the original description, so I suppose one could close this report as WORKSFORME.
I would close this bug report. There isnt too much activity. The question mark issue should have its own bug report. I think there is such a bug but I don't know if it is for this specific game title in question.