[Bug 25495] Homeworld 2: Shadows and High-Quality Hyperspace Effect are disabled

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25495

Zeb Figura  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|STAGED                      |NEW
    Staged patchset|https://github.com/wine-sta |
                   |ging/wine-staging/tree/mast |
                   |er/patches/winex11-wglShare |
                   |Lists                       |
           Keywords|                            |patch

--- Comment #23 from Zeb Figura  ---
(In reply to Alex Henrie from comment #22)
> I'm removing the regression keyword from this bug because I was unable to
> find any old version of Wine where high-quality hyperspace worked. I think
> Athrun must have been mistaken when they said in Comment #4 that it worked
> at some point between Wine 1.1.15 and Wine 1.1.20. If you can prove me
> wrong, please do.
>
> I'm also adding a link to the Wine Staging patch that fixes the problem,
> because the bug that it was originally for (Bug 11436) has now been fixed in
> a different way.
>
> Because this bug with Homeworld 2 is fundamentally due to a limitation of
> GLX compared to WGL, it may not be possible to fix correctly unless Wine
> reimplements OpenGL on top of Vulkan. Then again, maybe things will be
> better on Wayland, which uses EGL instead of GLX.

I'm removing the STAGED status since the patch isn't staged anymore (and, given
that it's a hack, I don't think we want it in wine-staging).

Probably the best solution is to try to get a new GLX extension, at least in
the free drivers...