http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23863
Summary: The Bard's Tale (2005): unplayable due to almost completely black screen Product: Wine Version: 1.3.0 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: gyebro69@gmail.com
Created an attachment (id=29959) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29959) terminal output (without any dll overrides)
After starting The Bard's Tale (published in 2005 by inXile Entertainment) the screen in the menus is way too dark, so you can see almost nothing, unless you turn up the gamma of the screen. The animated hero is also missing on the left side of the screen, when you choose to generate a new character. The biggest problem that makes the game unplayable is when you start a new game, almost the whole screen is black, only the mini-map is shown in the upper-right corner, and the health bar in the upper-left corner. Besides only subtitles are shown. Majority of the screen is pure black.
This bug affects at least the Steam version of the game, but according to AppDB the retail (DVD version) is also affected: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4041 I tried out several Wine versions but all of them showed the same issue, including 1.1.0 which received Gold rating on AppDB.
However, the demo version of the game has no such issues: it displays everything correctly, from the menus to the actual gameplay.
The only difference between the terminal output of the demo (working one) and the retail version is the following line (repeated several times) when playing the retail version: 'fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many full buffer conversions, stopping converting'
Wine-1.3.0 Fedora 13 Nvidia 7600 GT card / driver 195.36.31