[Bug 15205] New: Spore: incorrect rendering of rivers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15205

Summary: Spore: incorrect rendering of rivers
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.4
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

The rivers are very deep and steep in all stages of the game, see attached
screenshots.

Also note that its just not the rendering, its quite easy to get stuck down in
the river. I just named the bug rendering because I dont know what else to call
it.

[Bug 15205] Spore: incorrect rendering of rivers

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--- Comment #1 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 13:45:02 ---
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Screenshot_1

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--- Comment #2 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 13:46:14 ---
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--- Comment #3 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 15:57:17 ---
Maybe its hard to see, but in the first screenshot, in the minimap, a long,
black, straight line can be seen. This line coincides with the "river". Other
users (on windows) that Ive talked to apparently doesnt have neither rivers nor
lines. Should these things even be in the game?

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--- Comment #4 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 16:20:39 ---
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Screenshot_3

Here they are seen again, with the freecam mode toggled in. Long and straight
lines cutting the landscape into sections.

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--- Comment #5 from Rich   2008-09-09 18:54:12 ---
What video card and driver are you using? What Wine version? Is this with or
without the patches for z-depth for Spore?

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--- Comment #6 from Rich   2008-09-09 18:55:10 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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--- Comment #7 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 20:12:12 ---
System info:
$ lsb_release -a && uname -a && glxinfo |grep glx
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release:        8.04
Codename:       hardy
Linux hydra 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:

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--- Comment #8 from mizipzor   2008-09-09 20:17:07 ---
This error occurs both with vanilla wine 1.1.4 and with the patches for
z-depth. Although I cloned the latest git master today which included this:
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=932e95c111118b643650d6...

Which made the cracks smaller (not completely gone) but at least I can get
around the world now, so the game is playable. Ill see if I can get around to
taking a screenshot.

My own theory to the bug is that the bitmap Spore uses for
heightmap/level/whatever is somehow incorrectly calculated, so the size falls
one pixel short, leaving a void gap, which causes those chasms to be created
throughout the world.

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--- Comment #9 from mizipzor   2008-09-10 16:22:55 ---
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wine-1.1.4

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--- Comment #10 from mizipzor   2008-09-10 16:23:46 ---
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--- Comment #11 from mizipzor   2008-09-10 16:29:13 ---
There you can see the differences between the released version of wine and the
version I checked out with git. Both are with the 15883 patch, otherwise you
wouldnt see anything at all.

Although, in that screenshot it doesnt seem better in the git version, but I
recall that at the earlier stages I didnt get stuck in the "rivers" as often as
I used to.

Also, most of the graphics seem offset, but if you can see it in the minimap,
thats the exact same location. I dont know if this has something to do with the
generation of the planet.

The trees are also missing, is this another known bug?

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--- Comment #12 from mizipzor   2008-09-10 16:34:23 ---
This
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13652#Comme...)
was just posted among the comments on Spore here on the appdb:
http://www.isarapix.org/pix5/1221082171.png

In that screenshot, you can see this bug as well.

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--- Comment #13 from Floppie   2008-09-10 22:51:51 ---
Just a note, I'm getting the same bug.  Running a GeForce 7300GS with 173.14.09
drivers.

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--- Comment #14 from Bas Koopmans   2008-09-12 02:23:42 ---
I too have this bug, having the planets torn up into strips. The lines aren't
always in the same direction, but they *are* always the same size. However,
this doesn't apply to all worlds I visit. Some have these stripes scarring the
landscape and some are just fine.

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--- Comment #15 from mizipzor   2008-09-13 12:57:23 ---
Setting OffscreenRenderingMode to 'fbo' seems to be a workaround for this. I
havent seen the bug since I did that.

Also, since Im now guessing that the bug is in that setting, I changed the
component to direct3d.

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--- Comment #16 from Floppie   2008-09-13 13:46:57 ---
Pretty sure I've changed this setting once in the past but I can't remember -
where does one change the OffscreenRenderingMode setting?

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--- Comment #17 from mizipzor   2008-09-13 14:20:13 ---
You set it in the registry: http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

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--- Comment #18 from Floppie   2008-09-13 21:06:13 ---
Thanks for pointing me in that direction...setting it to fbo, however, gave me
a black screen - except for the UI, so it seems that the viewport was blacked
out.  Setting it to pbuffer or leaving it default leaves me with the lines.

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--- Comment #19 from Sugi   2008-09-21 14:18:55 ---
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River Glitch Safe mode Self Compiled Wine 1.1.5 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

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--- Comment #20 from cthulhu   2008-09-24 19:45:48 ---
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my direct3d registry settings

Setting OffscreenRenderingMode to fbo doesn't solve it for me, still getting
the "fissures".  Here are my HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D keys.

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--- Comment #21 from cthulhu   2008-09-24 19:50:21 ---
running wine-git on opensuse 11 64bit, kde4, nvidia n780i

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--- Comment #22 from cthulhu   2008-09-24 21:49:30 ---
I mean: nvidia GeForce 8800 GT.

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--- Comment #23 from no one   2008-09-25 07:45:52 ---
Please indicate which SPORE version you are running when reporting this bug
(i.e. 1.00 or 1.01).

I've been happily running SPORE 1.00 without the river glitch on a patched
1.1.4 wine version until I decided to update to 1.01. No registry changes have
been made.

Now, it does not really matter whether I'm running a patched 1.1.4 or a clean
1.1.5, the landscape has rivers all over it. Also I'm unable to use medium
settings, which was previously possible. The only culprit I can blame is the
update 1.00 to 1.01, since I did not update wine to 1.1.5 until the problem
emerged.

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--- Comment #24 from cthulhu   2008-09-25 13:59:55 ---
Planet fissures appeared for me with version 1.0 as well as after the upgrade
to 1.01.  Using the daily "wine-snapshot" packages off the opensuse community
wine repository.

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--- Comment #25 from no one   2008-09-25 19:10:04 ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> Planet fissures appeared for me with version 1.0 as well as after the upgrade
> to 1.01.  Using the daily "wine-snapshot" packages off the opensuse community
> wine repository.

I'm also an opensuse user, take a look at
http://www.sendspace.pl/file/tJuYz3be/
where I uploaded the last patched wine version that worked for me without the
river glitches on spore 1.00. It's basically the one with the recommended patch
for 1.1.4 (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=15883). The package has
been compiled with the extra spore patch on opensuse 11. See if you run into
problems like mine if you upgrade spore to 1.01.

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--- Comment #26 from cthulhu   2008-09-26 18:58:25 ---
Thanks very much, with your wine package the fissures/crevices/crevasses are
gone.  I had to disable fbo again because I was getting a black screen instead
of the galaxy, but once i did that it seems fine with my version 1.01.

I am though having an unrelated issue where water on some planets isn't
rendering at all, that i only noticed after i upgraded to 1.01.  I guess I'll
post a seperate bug on that.

(In reply to comment #25)
> I'm also an opensuse user, take a look at
> http://www.sendspace.pl/file/tJuYz3be/
> where I uploaded the last patched wine version that worked for me without the
> river glitches on spore 1.00. It's basically the one with the recommended patch
> for 1.1.4 (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=15883). The package has
> been compiled with the extra spore patch on opensuse 11. See if you run into
> problems like mine if you upgrade spore to 1.01.

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--- Comment #27 from Rico   2008-09-27 03:00:24 ---
@no one:

Could you try which of the 3 parts in the patch (
http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=15883 ) is responsible for the
problem? Only apply one single diff part and also try combinations. Probably we
could point out the wrong behaviour a little bit better. I couldn't test it
here, because I haven't got the game.

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--- Comment #28 from no one   2008-09-27 08:12:50 ---
If anyone's interested, here's the patched SRPM wine package for opensuse 11.
You can try editing the patch to find where the problem might be.
http://www.sendspace.pl/file/jmetq1id/

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--- Comment #29 from Jaime Rave   2009-04-10 14:15:22 ---
Still a problem in Wine 1.1.18

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--- Comment #30 from [e-mail]  2009-05-25 10:17:03 ---
this bug is still present in wine-1.1.22 but it looks like I've found a
workaround for it.

I've set the following parameters in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\OffscreenRenderingMode "fbo"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer "opengl"

Newly created planets (they will be created by starting a new game on some
other planet) don't have those river-like artifacts anymore.

Can someone confirm that this workaround really helps?

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--- Comment #31 from Asif   2009-07-28 13:07:33 ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> this bug is still present in wine-1.1.22 but it looks like I've found a
> workaround for it.
>
> I've set the following parameters in the registry:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\OffscreenRenderingMode "fbo"
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer "opengl"
>
> Newly created planets (they will be created by starting a new game on some
> other planet) don't have those river-like artifacts anymore.
>
> Can someone confirm that this workaround really helps?

negative, I have alyways used those exact registry settings and still get the
annoying rivers on planets.

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--- Comment #31 from Asif   2009-07-28 13:07:33 ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> this bug is still present in wine-1.1.22 but it looks like I've found a
> workaround for it.
>
> I've set the following parameters in the registry:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\OffscreenRenderingMode "fbo"
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer "opengl"
>
> Newly created planets (they will be created by starting a new game on some
> other planet) don't have those river-like artifacts anymore.
>
> Can someone confirm that this workaround really helps?

negative, I have alyways used those exact registry settings and still get the
annoying rivers on planets.

--- Comment #32 from Dan Kegel   2010-06-19 23:16:09 ---
I've never seen anything like this in Spore in my tests with wine-1.1.40+.
Is this still happening for you with wine-1.2rc4?

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--- Comment #33 from joaopa  2011-07-27 03:40:21 CDT ---
no answer from the reporter since 2 years.

This bug can be closed as ABANDONED.

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--- Comment #34 from Dan Kegel  2011-07-27 10:38:33 CDT ---
Sounds good to me.  We can always reopen it if it's real.

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--- Comment #35 from Austin English  2011-08-02 11:02:23 CDT ---
Closing.