[Bug 38784] New: Age of Empires II: wine 1.7.x series do not work with the external monitor as the primary output

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38784

Bug ID: 38784
           Summary: Age of Empires II: wine 1.7.x series do not work with
                    the external monitor as the primary output
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.0
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Hi

I had pretty old Fedora 18 om my laptop with wine 1.6.x, where I was able to
launch successfully Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires. Furthermore, I was
able to launch it in such a way that I used my external monitor as the primary
output i.e. the game was on the external monitor.

I upgraded recently to Fedora 22, which comes with wine 1.7.44, and (at least)
Age of Empires II does not launch anymore on the external monitor. Wine crashes
with the "page fault" error (see more comments below). Interestingly enough, if
I use laptop screen as the primary output, it works without problems.

I downgraded wine to 1.7.5, same issue. However, once I installed wine 1.6.1,
it started to work on the external monitor without any problem! So, I heavily
suspect that this is 1.7.x series issue. I ufortunately cannot say whether it
is somehow specific to Age of Empires II and/or my video card. If needed, I can
try other games.

Coming back to the "page fault" error itself.. Based on my personal programming
experience, it looks like some uninitialized pointer because there were a few
rare cases when wine 1.7.x actually started on the external monitor!! The
success rate was however quite low, maybe 1 out of 20. What I noticed is that
the first launch after reboot has a high probability of succeeding, but all the
next runs always fail.

With best regards,
Alex