[Bug 39350] New: Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39350

Bug ID: 39350
           Summary: Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs
                    on start when WRITECOPY enabled
           Product: Wine-staging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
               URL: http://www.gog.com/game/alone_in_the_dark_the_new_nigh
                    tmare
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I have this problem with the GOG.com version of the game, but can't reproduce
it with the original demo version.
After starting the game with alone4.exe, it switches screen resolution then
hangs with an empty black screen and 100% CPU usage.
Plain terminal output doesn't show anything.
The game starts properly when STAGING_WRITECOPY variable is unset.

wine-1.7.51-225-g3966aff
Fedora 22 32-bit

[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39350

Sebastian Lackner  changed:

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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.wine-staging.c
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[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

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Erich E. Hoover  changed:

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                 CC|                            |erich.e.hoover@wine-staging
                   |                            |.com

[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

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Sebastian Lackner  changed:

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            Version|unspecified                 |1.7.49

[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

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--- Comment #1 from Béla Gyebrószki  ---
The problem is still present in wine-2.17 Staging.
Tested with the GOG.com version of the game.

Arch Linux (64-bit)
wine-2.17 (Staging) (32-bit)
Nvidia 384.69

[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

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Béla Gyebrószki  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTOURBUG
           See Also|https://bugs.wine-staging.c |
                   |om/show_bug.cgi?id=521      |

--- Comment #2 from Béla Gyebrószki  ---
The game was updated on GOG.com at some point in the past (I was still using my
old installment created back in 2015 to retest this bug, being unaware of the
update).
The new version starts flawlessly when STAGING_WRITECOPY is enabled.
I made a binary comparison between the executables (alone4.exe). There is a
17-bytes sequence in which they differ. If I replace those bytes in the old
(non-working) alone4.exe than the game starts properly.

Resolving as NOTOURBUG.

[Bug 39350] Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GOG.com) hangs on start when WRITECOPY enabled

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Austin English  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #3 from Austin English  ---
Closing.