https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38993
Bug ID: 38993 Summary: Memory Blocks for Windows 3.x has missing tile animation Product: Wine Version: 1.5.13 Hardware: x86 URL: http://archive.org/download/630-windows-3x-games/630Wi ndows3.0Games.zip/SYMGAMES.ZIP OS: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download, regression, win16 Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: winex11.drv Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: gyebro69@gmail.com CC: julliard@winehq.org Regression SHA1: 33ac850c80634c891b0c157bbffa612f70954a40 Distribution: ---
This is an old game designed for Windows 3.x.
Each tile has a picture on the downward side and you have to flip the tiles and match the corresponding pictures. When you click on a tile it should turn around revealing the picture on it. This spinning animation is missing, the picture is simply drawn on the upper side of the tile when you click on it.
Tile animation used to work until
commit 33ac850c80634c891b0c157bbffa612f70954a40 Author: Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org Date: Thu Sep 6 12:39:34 2012 +0200
winex11: Use window surfaces for rendering top-level windows.
It can be disabled by setting "ClientSideGraphics"="n".
Setting ClientSideGraphics=n in the registry indeed fixes the problem.
Other issues reported due to that commit: Bug #35418 Bug #37308
To reproduce the problem download and unpack symgames.zip and start blocks.exe. If you find that the game window is flickering rapidly press <alt> to open the menus (this helped with the flickering issue for me).Then click on the tiles to see that they don't animate.
Wine 1.7.48 Fedora 22 XOrg 1.17.2 XFCE 4.12