http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21791
Summary: 3D Rad demo "BeltBall" full screen display shows as tiny black rectangle Product: Wine Version: 1.1.39 Platform: x86 URL: http://www.3drad.com/games/BeltBall%20v102.exe OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
The smallest demo from http://www.3drad.com/free-pc-games.php is the 8MB http://www.3drad.com/games/BeltBall%20v102.exe, sha1sum d8827274480b0391ad200478b2ebe26a2658166d BeltBall v102.exe Runs great on Vista. It installs fine; to run it, to get past bug 21790 by doing 'winetricks vcrun2005'.
The next problem is a crash related to d3dx9_36.D3DXAssembleShaderFromResourceW, roughly bug 12020. Work around this with 'winetricks d3dx9'.
The game then starts, but if you let it try to use full screen mode, it changes video mode and then seems to try to use a tiny rectangle at the upper left of the screen as its display area; the rectangle is all black. (The other demo game I tried from that site suffers from the same problem.)
This was with Ubuntu Jaunty; lspci reports 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1) and "Hardware Drivers" reports it's using the latest NVidia driver, 180.