[Bug 24592] Utopia City fails to start, reporting 'Game initialization failed due to following: services failed to initialize' (D3D device creation on desktop window)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24592

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                URL|http://www.gamershell.com/d |http://download.fileplanet.
                   |ownload_13008.shtml         |com/ftp1/032006/utopiacityd
                   |                            |emo2006.zip
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
          Component|msvcp                       |directx-d3d
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE
            Summary|Utopia City crashes on      |Utopia City fails to start,
                   |startup                     |reporting 'Game
                   |                            |initialization failed due
                   |                            |to following: services
                   |                            |failed to initialize' (D3D
                   |                            |device creation on desktop
                   |                            |window)

--- Comment #10 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

confirming.

Comment #9 refers to a Wine-Staging ticket but that is a secondary issue.

Staging has a lot of patches applied by default that fix/hide various issues
still present in plain Wine.

App log file:

--- snip ---
...
GIL: ================= Device Check Passed   =================

...init GILHolder: OK
    ...init RenderController: OK
    ...init MetaSoup: OK
    ...init RExtensionCache: OK
    ...init SmdMeshManager: OK
    ...init GUIManager: OK
    ...init AssetManager: OK
    ...init MeshManager: OK
    ...init FontManager: OK
Error! GIL: Exception: GIL: Failed to enumerate video modes!
InterfaceHolder<class r::RendererImpl> deinitialization:
  ...release FontManager: done
  ...release MeshManager: done
  ...release AssetManager: done
  ...release GUIManager: done
  ...release SmdMeshManager: done
  ...release RExtensionCache: done
  ...release MetaSoup: done
  ...release RenderController: done
  ...release GILHolder: done
...done
Error! Failed to obtain Renderer interface.
Error! 
  ...init Renderer: Failed!
  ...release Geometry
--- snip ---

The real problem is the game creates a D3D device using the desktop window and
tries to set pixel format on it - which obviously fails.

Use this patch to work around the D3D failure:
https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=46160 ("wined3d: Use backup swapchain
DC for devices created with desktop window.")

While tracking down the issue I noticed this patch in Wine-Staging:

https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/d3d9-Desk...

--- quote ---
Subject: winex11.drv: Allow changing the opengl pixel format on the desktop
window.

This patch is not 100% correct because the old behavior was more similar to
windows. However, Direct3D supports using the desktop window to create a
context and since Wine translates Direct3D to OpenGL, using the desktop
window will fail because of this limitation. Unless someone comes up with
a more correct solution or finds an application that breaks because of this,
it seems to be a suitable workaround as it fixes multiple applications.
--- quote ---

Although it appears to fix essentially the same problem, I suggest to look at
bug 18490 which is IMHO a better approach to this problem (disclaimer: I'm not
a D3D expert).

I'm going to resolve this as dupe of bug 18490 to avoid recycling.
Please create another bug for the MSVC++ problem.

$ sha1sum utopiacitydemo2006.zip 
2d31ea856c3d932f7c37d300272e78e29c362fc3  utopiacitydemo2006.zip

$ du -sh utopiacitydemo2006.zip 
240M    utopiacitydemo2006.zip

$ wine --version
wine-1.7.45-146-gaf55ae1

Regards

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18490 ***