[Bug 35705] New: Stability issues in certain games with recent Wine (maybe Nvidia driver related)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35705

Bug ID: 35705
           Summary: Stability issues in certain games with recent Wine
                    (maybe Nvidia driver related)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.13
          Hardware: x86
               URL: http://www.populous-online.co.uk/files/populousdemo.ex
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                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download, regression
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]
   Regression SHA1: 4c4552c5a1910a9d5adf8eccff0ac62d89ffe376

Created attachment 47680
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47680
crash log

Beside the performance issue reported in bug #35655 I noticed stability issues
as well in certain games due to commit
4c4552c5a1910a9d5adf8eccff0ac62d89ffe376.
For example Populous: The Beginning starts with intense screen flickering. It's
not just the game but my whole system that becomes highly unresponsive.
The X Server takes up 100% CPU power, the system hardly responds to mouse or
keyboard input.
After a few minutes the game crashes as can be seen in the attached backtrace.
I can reproduce the problem with the following Nvidia binary drivers: 331.38,
331.49 and 334.16 beta.
With the latest beta drivers (334.16) the nvidia driver itself that crashes,
leaving me with a black screen and forcing me to reboot the system.

Reverting commit 4c4552c5a1910a9d5adf8eccff0ac62d89ffe376 fixes the problem for
me.

Fedora 20
Nvidia GeForce 250 / driver 334.16 beta
X.Org X Server 1.14.4
XFCE 4.10
wine-1.7.13-118-g0eb6265