http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5727
Summary: Wine should warn Mesa OpenGL will not work with most 3D programs. Product: Wine Version: 0.9.11. Platform: PC-x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: docbill+bugzilla@freeshell.org
Wine should warn when Mesa OpenGL is being used that most 3D programs will not work. Wine should also detect the return error codes, rather than just crashing. I notice this problem when trying to run Neverwinter Nights. The program would crash whenever I tried to run nwmain.exe. A few days later, I discovered my ATI driver was not activated and I was still using Mesa Open GL. After activating the ATI driver I found Neverwinters Nights nolonger crashed on startup... While I do not expect Wine to run 3D programs without a 3D driver, I do expect it to give appropraite errors and warnings rather than a crash with a traceback.