[Bug 27344] New: The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

Summary: The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch,
                    have to kill X
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.21
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

On my ubuntu 11.04 laptop, where glxinfo | grep str says
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTS 360M/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06
I can install Witcher 2 and run its config utility,
but launching the game itself yields a black screen
even if you tell it to run in a window on a virtual desktop.
Killing the game doesn't fix the screen, so it kind of sounds
like a problem with the X server.
Some people in the appdb have reported success with 
  winetricks glsl=disabled d3dx9
but that didn't help here.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel  2011-05-31 09:29:26 CDT ---
Strangely, after I changed the game's resolution to 640x480 in
bin/Configurator.exe, this problem went away, even when I returned
to higher resolutions.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

Alex Bradbury  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Alex Bradbury  2011-05-31 12:00:41 CDT ---
Just for the sake of reference, had you applied the 1.1 Witcher 2 patch or not?

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

--- Comment #3 from Dan Kegel  2011-05-31 12:46:27 CDT ---
No.  I was assuming that gog.com had already applied
any needed patches and/or that the 1.1 patch would conflict
with gog's "activation patch".

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

--- Comment #4 from Alex Bradbury  2011-05-31 12:53:18 CDT ---
There's a GOG-specific version of the 1.1 patch (available under "additional
content" under Witcher 2 in your GOG account page). Gog's version includes the
release-day patch. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 with binary nvidia drivers etc also -
I'll see if I get the same crash.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

--- Comment #5 from Alex Bradbury  2011-05-31 15:35:37 CDT ---
I tested and had the same experience as Dan Kegel. I'm also running Ubuntu
11.04 (though in x86-64), and with Nvidia binary drivers.

OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06

After saving settings once, I just get a blank screen but I can kill it as
usual (winetricks glsl=disabled and d3dx9 does allow the game to work slowly).

It's possible that the 'configurator' sets one of the values in the game
configuration file to something other than the default (i.e. what it is freshly
after install). Investigating this might help pin down the source of this
problem. Though for me the game didn't even launch until I'd opened the
configurator once and then exited.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

--- Comment #6 from Alex Bradbury  2011-05-31 15:40:41 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Though for me the game didn't even launch until I'd opened the
> configurator once and then exited.

I confused myself, ignore this - this was when I was trying to use the launcher
and instead I switched to launching the game directly. Irrelevant to the bug
anyway.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

Xavier Vachon  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Xavier Vachon  2013-07-25 12:46:36 CDT ---
Do you folks still experience this in current wine (1.6)? The game needs an
override (d3dx9_36) to run on my system, without the override there is a black
screen but I don't need to kill X to work around it, I can just pop a console
and kill the game executable.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Xavier Vachon from comment #7)
> Do you folks still experience this in current wine (1.6)? The game needs an
> override (d3dx9_36) to run on my system, without the override there is a
> black screen but I don't need to kill X to work around it, I can just pop a
> console and kill the game executable.

Abandoned.

[Bug 27344] The Witcher 2.0 (Gog.com): black screen on launch, have to kill X

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27344

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Austin English  ---
Closing.