http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29834
Bug #: 29834 Summary: Age of Empires II screen freezes after playing for around 10 minutes Product: Wine Version: 1.4-rc2 Platform: x86-64 URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/aoeaok/Trial/1. 0/WIN98/EN-US/AoE2demo.exe OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: lapommegolden@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Regression SHA1: 204e53e449474253af6b2d7dc267a5fa37476649
This regression is essentially identical to http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29555
Screen will be frozen (stuck at the last working frame) after playing an Age of Empires II game for around 10-15 minutes while the audio (& the game itself i suppose) is still working after the screen is frozen.
Reverted the said commit from the latest git master does do away the screen freeze. http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/204e53e449474253af6b2d7dc267a5f...
1. Download & install AOE 2 Trial: http://download.microsoft.com/download/aoeaok/Trial/1.0/WIN98/EN-US/AoE2demo...
2. Set DirectDrawRenderer to "gdi" in registry http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
3. Launch AOE2 Trial
4. Start a Single Player game, for example: Single Player -> Random Map -> Trial Costal Map
It's a good idea to set the difficulty level to "Easiest" if you are not familiar with the game (so that you won't be defeated by computers before the screen freezes ;-))
5. (OPTIONAL) Press F11 to enable game clock (the clock will show up at the top left corner)
6. Wait for the screen to freeze. (Screen will freeze at around 6:XX to 18:XX if game speed is set to "fast")