[Bug 58156] New: Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58156

Bug ID: 58156
           Summary: Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't
                    launch, "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.6
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: MacOS
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Created attachment 78437
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78437
Wine-devel 10.6 log for "wine jkdemo.exe -windowgui"

the Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II Demo: won't launch, it says
"smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize. This is a Windows 95 game demo

I tried setting the Windows Version to Windows 10, Windows 95, and Windows 98
in winecfg. I also tried launching the demo with and without the windowgui
flag: `wine jkdemo.exe -windowgui` as mentioned in AppDB HowTo section.

This is a regression because a lot of users report this game demo as Gold in
AppDB, including on macOS
(https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10948)

The jedi.exe file is a launcher GUI which works fine, but when clicking "Play
Jedi Knight Demo" it fails with the error:

`file` command info for: jkdemo.exe
PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

Unable to start the Jedi Knight Demo game program. Try running JK.EXE where you
installed the Demo directly. Also make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers
installed on your system.

The macOS terminal shows this error as one of the last things in the log:
"err:module:loader_init "smackw32.DLL" failed to initialize, aborting"
(the module is normally unzipped next to the jkdemo.exe executable)

tested with Gcenx's Wine-devel 10.6
(https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/10.6) on macOS 11

and Wine-devel 9.21
(https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/9.21)

and Gcenx's Wine CrossOverFOSS 23.7.1-1 based on Wine 8.0.1
(https://github.com/Gcenx/winecx/releases/tag/crossover-wine-23.7.1-1)

download page (choose Download this File > Agree > Jedi Knight Demo.zip):
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1308-jedi-knight-dark-forces-i...
sha256: 7bc013918cf79879a086a10c27306f2f3511852726f4b4a9fec09668ed221d18