https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45257
--- Comment #3 from zefkerr zefkerrigan@gmail.com --- (In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #2)
Hello folks,
I'm pretty sure there is no regression here.
I can confirm a crash in Win7 mode which has been present since a while, even before Wine 3.7 -> no regression (NOTE: this is not bug 42520, see later comment).
What most likely happened you switched the WINEPREFIX Windows version to something newer than 'Windows XP' (Win7).
WoT client in 'Windows 7' setting will automatically use DirectX 10/11 which still has insufficiencies. WoT client in 'Windows XP' setting will use DirectX 9 (works fine).
--- snip --- worldoftanks 1.0.1.0 (compiled at 10:32:06 May 22 2018) --- snip ---
NOTE: There is bug 42520 (XAudio2) which is now shadowed/preceded by DirectX 10/11 issue(s). But people don't know this because they just assume "crash = must be same issue".
Please state which exact Windows version was used during your downgrade/upgrade tests.
Regards
Still present it Wine 3.9. With Wine 3.7 in Windows 7 mode, the game at least runs to the login screen, but hangs after entering the login and password, which at least gives me the opportunity to play without issues and with good fps thanks to the ability to use DXVK https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
But with Wine 3.8 or 3.9, the game does not run at all. I shot a video screen recording so you can see how it happens: https://mega.nz/#!CJUW2bbA!liai-64rTtFsr-djFNQU5JTmijGU8CVpbJIK9B3S5z4