[Bug 38436] Grand Theft Auto V failed to launch

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38436

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--- Comment #24 from Zeke Sonxx  ---
So, it's been several months since someone attacked this, so I decided to give
it a go.

The current version of the R* Social Club launcher has an updated version of
CEF, which has resumed causing subprocess.exe to crash (I suspect it's the same
problem that Steam's steamwebhelper has). I have a version of R*SC from my
Windows installation, almost a year old at this point, which says it's
corrupted if you try to use it.

/However/, if I load that version, and then run the SC installer included in
the game ("Social-Club-Setup.exe"; not "Social Club v1.1.5.6 Setup.exe"), the
launcher will actually launch the game. The launcher will also break itself,
but setting "Program Files/Rockstar Games" and it's 32-bit equivalent to
read-only will prevent that.

winetricks installed: vcrun2012 (as included with the game), steam, dxd10

I'd be happy to privately provide a copy of that R*SC installation to anyone
who would like it, just email me.

So, I can now reliably launch the actual game. I've been testing with Wine
1.9.23-staging and Wine 1.9.24 non-staging. The game behaves identically in
both versions unless otherwise mentioned

For Windows versions I have default on WinXP, GTA5.exe on Win7 and
GTAVLauncher.exe on WinXP (also Steam.exe and steamwebhelper.exe on WinXP just
so they stop complaining at me).

Running with GTA5.exe in WinXP mode results in it starting to launch
(full-screen black window) followed by a popup ERR_MEM_EMBEDDEDALLOC_ALLOC "Out
of game memory. Please reboot and restart the game."

Running with GTA5.exe in Win7 mode results in it trying to start, followed by a
Wine "this application has buggered up" box. On 1.9.23-staging it gets a black
screen and crashes quickly, on 1.9.24 it never opens anything and eventually
Wine pops up with the crash box.

Running with GTA5.exe in WinVista mode results in pretty much the same result
as Win7 mode, however under 1.9.24 it gives me a different backtrace.

I intend to do more experimentation, including trying some recent git versions
of Wine, and will report back with what I find.

After I post this comment I'll also post backtraces for the current launcher
version, 1.9.24 crash in Win7 mode, and 1.9.24 crash in WinVista mode.