http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34316
Bug #: 34316 Summary: The Guild 2: loading screen is blank (white) Product: Wine Version: 1.7.0 Platform: x86 URL: http://www.fileplanet.com/169779/160000/fileinfo/The-G uild-2-Demo OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download, regression Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: gyebro69@gmail.com CC: hverbeet@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Regression SHA1: 37d1e8b79cfc2c4ca7b947589574179470a06c42
Created attachment 45682 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=45682 terminal output
In certain games the loading screens are empty (blank), or simply not refreshing. Such games are Fallout 3/Fallout:New Vegas, TES IV: Oblivion (one of the intro video is blank) or Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The Guild 2 is affected too, it has a demo version so you can reproduce the problem with that. The only problem with the demo is that that installation takes a very long time under Wine for some reason.
This is a regression due to
37d1e8b79cfc2c4ca7b947589574179470a06c42 is the first bad commit commit 37d1e8b79cfc2c4ca7b947589574179470a06c42 Author: Henri Verbeet hverbeet@codeweavers.com Date: Fri Aug 16 09:12:30 2013 +0200
wined3d: Try to avoid redundant constant updates.
This gives a minor performance improvement. For example, in 3DMark03 Game Test 1 this gives about a 4% improvement, in the Counter Strike: Source stress test it's about 1%. (NVIDIA GF9600M, Intel T9550, 1024x768).
:040000 040000 f99284ef188ab87b9d6372a5be54f6ccb63e8ea0 b3e06f60336fdcee348606b5de4f818fe0a7ed15 M dlls
Reverting the patch fixes the problem.
Fedora 19 Nvidia 250 / driver 325.15 X.Org X Server 1.14.2