[Bug 15285] New: Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

Summary: Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.4
          Platform: PC-x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=16091)
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log

The game installs and loads properly. But after party creation, the game gets
stuck on the loading screen and crashes a few moments after the music begins to
play. I have attached a log, just tell me the commands I should run if you need
more data to analyze.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #1 from Austin English   2008-09-14 05:38:41 ---
A +d3d_shader,+d3d log may be useful.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #2 from Xavier Vachon   2008-09-14 07:49:25 ---
Created an attachment (id=16095)
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D3d & shader log excerpt

(In reply to comment #1)
> A +d3d_shader,+d3d log may be useful.

I ran the command WINEDEBUG=+d3d_shader,+d3d wine mm9.exe 2> logd3d.txt . I
have been able to get into the game, but each menu takes about 1 minute to
load, and the game is very, very slow (I have a quad core with 4 gb of ram and
a Nvidia 8800GT). I would rate it unplayable because of that. I tried to load
the game in Windows XP-64, and I have the exact same issue. Therefore this is
confusing because many other people with the TELP 1.3 patch can play the game
until the end. There seems to be a huge loop of actions which slows the game
terribly, because the size of my log after the first test was 11.4 GB! I killed
the process during the second test, the log was then 630 MB in size. I have
extracted the first 7500 lines of the second log, I hope that it will be
useful. If you need anything else, just tell me what to run.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #3 from Xavier Vachon   2008-09-14 08:07:06 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=16095)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=16095) [details]
> D3d & shader log excerpt
>
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > A +d3d_shader,+d3d log may be useful.
>
> I ran the command WINEDEBUG=+d3d_shader,+d3d wine mm9.exe 2> logd3d.txt . I
> have been able to get into the game, but each menu takes about 1 minute to
> load, and the game is very, very slow (I have a quad core with 4 gb of ram and
> a Nvidia 8800GT). I would rate it unplayable because of that. I tried to load
> the game in Windows XP-64, and I have the exact same issue. Therefore this is
> confusing because many other people with the TELP 1.3 patch can play the game
> until the end. There seems to be a huge loop of actions which slows the game
> terribly, because the size of my log after the first test was 11.4 GB! I killed
> the process during the second test, the log was then 630 MB in size. I have
> extracted the first 7500 lines of the second log, I hope that it will be
> useful. If you need anything else, just tell me what to run.

I have found a patched cshell.dll file on a fansite which addresses the issue.
I will need to do further testing, but so far it seems to fix the issue quite
well.

Here is the post with the link to the file :
http://telp.org/mm9/tavern/anyboard/posts/39819.html. We might want to host it
here as well. After some testing I will write a new test report.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #4 from Xavier Vachon   2009-01-09 22:59:55 ---
I can confirm that this issue is solved by a third party library, as mentioned
in my test report on the APPDB page. It has nothing to do with WINE.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #5 from Jeff Zaroyko   2009-01-09 23:11:43 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I can confirm that this issue is solved by a third party library, as mentioned
> in my test report on the APPDB page. It has nothing to do with WINE.

does it work on Windows without the "third party library"?  If it does then
it's still a bug in Wine.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #6 from Xavier Vachon   2009-01-10 09:54:39 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I can confirm that this issue is solved by a third party library, as mentioned
> > in my test report on the APPDB page. It has nothing to do with WINE.
>
> does it work on Windows without the "third party library"?  If it does then
> it's still a bug in Wine.

I have to use the third party library in Windows as well to make the game work.
According to the guy who fixed the library, the game had poor coding.

"frognik  writes:

I took a better look at what was happening in cshell.dll and found out that it
uses DirectX 7 to capture images like those in the load/save screen. DirectX 9
or above works differently and has to "emulate" DirectX 7 functions, this is
why its slow. Unfortunately there is no easy fix for this.

Here's my final cshell.dll (load/save time has been fixed):
http://rapidshare.com/files/133809664/cshell.rar.html

Basically anything to do with capturing images has been removed and hence you
will only see a black image in the load/save screen and simmilar. This is
graphical only and wont ruin gameplay."

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #7 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-01-10 12:40:49 ---
Invalid then if the same problem exists on windows - game's bug.

[Bug 15285] Might and Magic IX : crash after party creation

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #8 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-01-10 12:41:09 ---
Closing invalid.