[Bug 26986] New: The Sims 3 blacks out the screen immediately when starting.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26986

Summary: The Sims 3 blacks out the screen immediately when
                    starting.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.14
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

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Output from terminal

Installed fine on Ubuntu 10.10 but the screen goes black when the game starts
and I can only exit the game by killing the process. I installed Directx 9.0c
and set the Options.ini file to use windowed mode with 800x600 1 resolution and
that didn't fix this. I have seen others with the same concern in the Wine
forum and in at least two other forums related to Ubuntu.

This was my third attempt at installing The Sims 3 on this system having used
Wine, Winetricks and Playonlinux.

My system is a Acer Aspire Timeline X laptop 4820T-7633. It has the bear
minimum hardware to run the game, but I have tested on WinXP and it ran fine.