https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45257
--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net --- Hello folks,
--- quote --- Wine 3.7 in Windows 7 mode, the game at least runs to the login screen, but hangs after entering the login and password --- quote ---
the hang is the result of a crash in the main thread due to DirectX 10/11 insufficiencies. The graphics is still shown, but obviously frozen.
--- quote --- which at least gives me the opportunity to play without issues and with good fps thanks to the ability to use DXVK https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk --- quote ---
This is not supported here and in fact it shows that the game never worked in plain Wine with Windows 7 settings, regardless if its Wine 3.7, 3.9 etc.
Also you are using Wine-Staging. Please use plain = vanilla Wine to report bugs. Wine-Staging has gazillion patches applied and makes it harder to track down/isolate bugs in vanilla Wine.
Another thing: were the DXVK drop-ins also present in the beginning of the video? Check the 3:46 minute mark in your video. It shows that the WINEPREFIX "downgrade" (update due to Wine-Staging 3.9 -> 3.7 downgrade) has suspicious errors:
--- snip --- 002c:err:setupapi:create_dest_file failed to create "C:\windows\system32\dxgi.dll" (error=80) 002c:err:setupapi:create_dest_file failed to create "C:\windows\system32\dxgi.dll" (error=80) --- snip ---
I've tested the game client with Windows XP setting with Wine-Staging 3.9 as you did. No DXVK. It works fine, no crash.
Please only report bugs with clean WINEPREFIX (clean install of game). Customizations, such as drop-in dlls from third-party projects such as DXVK can create incompatibilities across Wine version which is clearly demonstrated by you -> INVALID bug. If that's the case, report the bugs to the third-part project, not Wine.
Regards