[Bug 8051] Sims 2 demo exits prematurely

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051

--- Comment #136 from Sergey Isakov  ---
(In reply to swswine from comment #135)
> (In reply to Sergey Isakov from comment #134)
> > What is it???
>
> Please find the answer to your question in comment #124 and comment #132
> above.
> It is no sense in using this patch for your main wine installation, or for
> testing some arbitrary games.  My initial comments suggest the same. This
> patch is not designed for any particular purpose, maybe except for revealing
> in-depth wine problems and illustrating the simpler "top level" problems
> running Sims2. In any case you are using it on your own risk.

You should not restrict vertex model to 2 in your patch.
It is performed by 
winetrick vsm=2 and psm=2
or just in registry, see dlls/wined3d/wined3d_main.c:305
~~~
        if (!get_config_key_dword(hkey, appkey, "MaxShaderModelVS",
&wined3d_settings.max_sm_vs))
            TRACE("Limiting VS shader model to %u.\n",
wined3d_settings.max_sm_vs);
~~~
This method works.
Users must use this trick for this game and not for others.
Anyway thanks for pointing to the problem.