http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28730
--- Comment #45 from Michael Abbott michael@araneidae.co.uk 2012-02-04 16:51:34 CST --- (In reply to comment #44)
(In reply to comment #43)
why does only Wine appear to provoke this particular failure?
Because only Wine tells you what's wrong. You won't get anything on windows, just a crash or not working game.
Ah, now, that's where you're missing a point. The error message in question does *not* come from Wine, it comes from the RAGE game itself.
You'll notice that right from the beginning the reporter logged both the Wine output (rather uninformative in this particular case) together with the "RAGE console output" (second attachment). This output, as far as I can tell (it's the *only* conversation I've managed to have with the game so far) is entirely generated by the game itself and is nothing to do with Wine. In particular it's from *this* output that the error message "ERROR: SetPixelFormat failed" comes; this is nothing to do with Wine.
So, I think the game *is* trying to tell us something...