[Bug 35453] New: Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35453

Bug ID: 35453
           Summary: Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch. In 1.3.9 it still works with
vcruntime6 and the old patch.

In recent Wine versions the game won't launch at all. Get this message from
debug.
Tried Nvidia physx and vcrun2008 error stays the same.

err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 1280 bytes in thread 0026 eip
7bc6f79f esp 01400e30 stack 0x1400000-0x1401000-0x1c00000

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

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--- Comment #1 from Paul The Tall  ---
it happens as well for the GOG.com version as for the CD version. No
difference.

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Austin English  ---
Please run a regression test:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

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--- Comment #3 from Paul The Tall  ---
That stuff go's over my head.... I know it works in wine 1.3.9 but quits
working when opengl is starting to come in (1.3.25?) so its something to do
with that?

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Wylda  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Wylda  ---

As there is the overflow, it looks like the well know "GL Extension string"
problem. I had the same and solved for nVidia:

1. regedit mohaa_disabled_extenstions-v2.reg
 2. __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine MOHAA.exe

I got the "mohaa_disabled_extenstions-v2.reg" here:
http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=44390

After that MOHAA (Medal of Honor Allied Assault v1.11) runs perfectly under
wine-1.7.11 even with original CD protected by:

* [!] Safedisc v2.60.052 detected !

There is bunch of similar MOHAA bug reports, but here is nothing to solve i
guess. It's the application bug, not wine's.

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

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--- Comment #5 from Paul The Tall  ---
The point 2. I don't understand, can you clearify that one? Many thanks in
advance! I already had the disabled extensions inserted though.

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--- Comment #6 from Wylda  ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> The point 2. I don't understand, can you clearify that one?

The "__GL_ExtensionStringVersion" is a variable to which is assigned the value
17700. The value represents nVidia driver's v177.xx capabilities. It's like a
switch, which takes you to history (newer drivers have more capabilites &
extensions, so the string length is bigger and games based on Quake's engine
didn't expect such a lengthy string, so they crash).

For intel graphics the trick to reduce is different:

MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003 wine MOHAA.exe

For example, see bug 31730.

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

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--- Comment #7 from Henri Verbeet  ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> As there is the overflow, it looks like the well know "GL Extension string"
> problem. I had the same and solved for nVidia:
> - regedit mohaa_disabled_extenstions-v2.reg
> - __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine MOHAA.exe

In principle step 2 on its own should be enough to fix this. I.e., you
shouldn't need to set the "DisabledExtensions" registry setting.

(In reply to comment #6)
> For intel graphics the trick to reduce is different:
>
> MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003 wine MOHAA.exe

This should work for any Mesa based driver, including Nouveau and r600g in
particular.

The original reporter is using MacOS though, and I'm not aware of a similar
mechanism to limit the GL extension string there. I suspect that the reason the
.reg file doesn't work is simply that the extension string on modern GPUs / GL
implementations is still too long, even after disabling all those extensions.

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--- Comment #8 from Paul The Tall  ---
No, Wylda was right, it fixed the problem for me.

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--- Comment #9 from Paul The Tall  ---
Problem fixed by "long" key :P

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Paul The Tall  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #10 from Paul The Tall  ---
Problem fixed by "long" key :P I think I missed a couple of the total list of
characters. Don't know why that still worked in 1.3.9 and not anymore in 1.7.4
and Crossover. Imported this string and it simply worked and also now in
Crossover. Thanks for the help!

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Henri Verbeet  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Henri Verbeet  ---

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31730 ***

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Bruno Jesus  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Closing duplicate.

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch

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--- Comment #13 from Wylda  ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> In principle step 2 on its own should be enough to fix this. I.e., you
> shouldn't need to set the "DisabledExtensions" registry setting.

Hi Henri, for the record - i double checked it right now and i need both of
these setting applied. If i use only the 1st or only the 2nd, i get the crash
when OpenGL is initializing.

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Wylda  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Wylda  ---

Removing the regression keyword as there is nothing to bisect.

[Bug 35453] Medal of Honor Allied Assault won't launch (GL_EXTENSION string overflow)

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Version|unspecified                 |1.3.25
            Summary|Medal of Honor Allied       |Medal of Honor Allied
                   |Assault won't launch        |Assault won't launch
                   |                            |(GL_EXTENSION string
                   |                            |overflow)

--- Comment #15 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

resolving this as dupe of bug 25362 which serves as collector for this
overflow.

Regards

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25362 ***