[Bug 25728] UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold - crash at start caused by wine's built-in dsound/directmusic

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25728

--- Comment #21 from Andrew Eikum  2012-04-18 08:44:21 CDT ---
And here's the crash:

0054:trace:dmime:IDirectMusicSegment8Impl_IDirectMusicSegment8_SetLoopPoints
(0x11f45bf0, 0, 0)
0054:trace:seh:raise_exception code=e06d7363 flags=1 addr=0x7b83a1f2
ip=7b83a1f2 tid=0054

Looks like the segment header isn't being loaded correctly, so SetLoopPoints()
thinks it's being called with invalid parameters and returns an error code.
That causes UFO:ET to raise an exception and display that dialog.

Looking into it briefly, this is a result of Wine's dmusic COM implementation,
which is in really bad shape. Michael Stefaniuc is researching how it _should_
work, and is sending patches to improve it. Once he's finished fixing dmusic's
COM implementation, we can take a closer look at fixing this.

I'm going to put this bug "on hold" until the COM stuff is fixed. In the
meantime, I'll try looking at Bug 28340 more closely to see if we can get the
native workaround working again.

Thanks for being so generous with the logs.