[Bug 27879] New: Zombie Driver becomes unresponsive mid-game with shadows enabled

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27879

Summary: Zombie Driver becomes unresponsive mid-game with
                    shadows enabled
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.25
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

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In Wine-1.3.25 Zombie Driver stalls in a matter of seconds after a new game was
started.

Symptom: sound begins to stutter and framerate drops dramatically in a couple
of seconds mid-game, the game hardly responses to keypresses. The game doesn't
turn into "zombie" completely, if I press <Esc> several times I'm able to go
back to the menus where the framerate and mouse responsiveness are okay. As
soon as I resume the game, the issue is there again.

Workaround: disable shadows (in the launcher). The game offers 3 choices for
shadows: none, normal, soft.

I can reproduce the problem with the following game versions: 1.1.2, 1.1.4,
1.2.2, 1.2.6
The demo, still at version 1.0.6 is not affected.

Regression testing pointed to:

6c5e109af7184ee557aa24c676cc78f3e92e6782 is the first bad commit
commit 6c5e109af7184ee557aa24c676cc78f3e92e6782
Author: Ričardas Barkauskas 
Date:   Fri Jul 8 22:11:29 2011 +0300

wined3d: Introduce quirk for proper RGBA16 support.

:040000 040000 1fc08fe5e9148a2a9699c6c6edb6c042192a5072
4e9e3555ccd4a5892a60c2a4aff1d28ea2229a9e M    dlls

The patch can be reverted cleanly on 1.3.25 and that fixed the problem.
Author of the patch added to CC.

I'd like to add that this was the commit that fixed a long-standing graphical
problem in the game: dark, diagonal lines appeared across the screen when
shadows was enabled.

Fedora 15
Nvidia GeForce 250 / driver 275.21