http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19373
--- Comment #11 from Wylda wylda@volny.cz 2010-01-08 16:31:19 ---
OK, i think i found it. The key here is the registry and following setting cause, that the game will be painted in lower left corner(empty settings):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PopCap\PlantsVsZombies\Test3D] "Warning"=""
Anything in a "Warning" causes, that the game will be fully painted. During the downgrade i found in this variable following value:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PopCap\PlantsVsZombies\Test3D] "Warning"="Unsupported video card: Direct3D HAL"
and the game run flawlessly even in wine-1.1.36. So my wild guess - if you put anything (for example "Warning"="abc") here, the game will switch to some safe(??) mode, which runs correctly.
Is there a possibility how to debug this by comparing the working and non-working version and find a bug in wine??