http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29271
Bug #: 29271 Summary: Battle For Middle Earth hangs on lunch since wine-1.1.41 Product: Wine Version: 1.1.41 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: kernel32 AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: andrzej.kardas@kardasa.pl Classification: Unclassified
Recently I found out that an old game I have Battle For The Middle Earth is no longer working in current wine version, this is confirmed in game wine hq report current status Garbage. The Game hangs on first loading screen. The Game previously was running flawlesly. I did some testing by checking old wine versions and found out that problem was introduced in wine-1.1.41, in wine-1.1.40 the game is running just fine. I did full regresion testing between those 2 versions of wine, here are the results:
c7bed19c0b71188799eff67f562e9072de4e0dd0 is the first bad commit commit c7bed19c0b71188799eff67f562e9072de4e0dd0 Author: Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org Date: Thu Mar 18 13:02:42 2010 +0100
kernel32: Don't try to open builtin exe files during CreateProcess, only check the path syntax.
:040000 040000 7c3a42c2f659614a78e31944aa027dab3b0d4922 043cbd80f52838034e61268d64f01f65152e1ed2 M dlls
I'm running Gentoo Linux if any additional info is needed let me know and I will provide the info, I'm keeping the game installed.