https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51038
Bug ID: 51038 Summary: without virtual desktop, occluding black box in 3D view. With virtual desktop, missing icons in 2D view Product: Wine Version: 6.6 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: freehand@tutanota.com Distribution: ---
This bug occurs for all versions of wine, including wine-6.6 (Staging). It does not cause a crash, but causes graphics problems which makes the games unplayable.
I can't find a winecfg Graphics setting that works for BOTH 2D and 3D view in two classic open source flight sims.
The source code of these two flight sims, Rowan's Mig Alley and Rowan's Battle of Britain, is at these links:
https://github.com/gondur/mig_src
https://github.com/gondur/BOB_Src
In both games play alternates between a 3D flight sim view and a 2D strategy board game view. For both games, winecfg Graphics decorate windows should be turned off. Per the title of this bug, 3D view is usable only if virtual desktop is turned on, while 2D view works only if virtual desktop is turned off.
A workaround that usually works is to use a dual monitor setup, set 2D and 3D resolution to 1024x768 in the game, and turn virtual desktop off. With these settings the 3D occluding black box conveniently moves to the second monitor, thus both 2D and 3D view are correct.
To reproduce this bug, on a Ubuntu 20.04 partition download and unpack this tar file https://www.mediafire.com/file/p6jkteimq89xjsm/esports-for-engineers-v40.tar...
If you want to verify that this file is not corrupted,run "sha256sum esports-for-engineers-v40.tar.gz". Then check that the output is is 4b1172ade547dfd0a352d11bc9cae1501693e048c8c4996c2c6a9ee287d67826 esports-for-engineers-v40.tar.gz
cd to esports-for-engineers-v40 and install apt packages as instructed in the file ubuntu_20_04_LTS_PackageInstall.sh
To install Rowan's Battle of Britain, run the script esports-for-engineers-v40/THU/BattleOfBritain/battleOfBritain.sh
To install Rowan's Mig Alley, a similar game with the same bug, run the script esports-for-engineers-v40/THU/MigAlley/mig.sh
How can I get both the 2D and the 3D view working correctly without using the dual monitor setup workaround described above? I tried running winecfg on a second monitor and changing the setting when I switched between 2D and 3D view, but this had no effect.