https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57571
Bug ID: 57571 Summary: Zafehouse: Diaries garbage/black screen Product: Wine Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: rencer@euromail.hu Distribution: ---
I have this game installed on my computer with it's own wineprefix. Never used that prefix for anything else, just to play this one game. Originally I created that wineprefix and installed the game inside that back at 2014. Also I tried to run the game with this wineprefix on the exact same computer as back then.
It required lot of manual trickering to make it work. At that time nobody managed to run the game with sound on Linux, but I figured out and posted a how-to on the game's forum. Later even the developers shared that how-to on the Steam page of the game. See here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/249360/discussions/0/846963711048254058/#c613...
Sadly that forum page doesn't exist anymore; possibly because the game is old and no longer supported. It doesn't really matter anyway, because it is no longer possible to make the game install and setup a wineprefix that way. Back then it was possible to install all the requirements manually because wine/winetricks wasn't blocking us to install them. (such as full DirectX9, .NET 3.5 SP1, etc.)
As years passed, once in a while I played the game, everything was fine. But today, even that I try to run the game in that exact same wineprefix on the exact same computer, it doesn't work anymore.
When I run the game it is starts loading; you can see as the game writes it on the bottom right corner. When the loading process finishes the game supposed to show the menu screen. There is the problem. I hear the music but the screen is just a mess. It somehow shows the content of whatever is in the background of the game; like any other window or the desktop itself. But it is all garbage; it looks like whatever is in the background is turned into a puzzle, shuffled and randomly put back on the screen.
The reason I kept the wine version 'unspecified' because I also tried to run the game under different wine prefixes that uses different wine versions. Also tried to make fresh wineprefix with the current latest wine in my Manjaro XFCE, which is version 9.20. Creating a new one is impossible because of winetricks/wine.
I have many winprefixes, so I find one or two that works.(One is version 9.20) With these different working prefixes the result is always the same as with the original old prefix; messed up screen.