[Bug 8051] Sims 2 demo exits prematurely

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051

--- Comment #131 from Luke Horwell  ---
(In reply to Jason Mills from comment #130)
> So, the workaround you attached; Does it basically fix the red flashing
> Sims, and the fact they won't animate? If so, I could quickly try it out and
> make a video "showcasing" this workaround in action. And you mentioned other
> issues pop up when you interact with a house. What issues? Are they visual?
> or, do they make the game crash?

I was playing around with this patch yesterday on my system, and observed the
following with the base game (wine-1.8-rc2):

- A strange "rendering" pattern across the screen, depending on the angle of
the camera. Can't really describe it.
 - If the camera is 'static', the rendering appears "frozen" (this occurred
even without this patch)
 - Sims and animated objects are not visible, instead of flashing red.

After installing EP6 (updates base game to 2007), it got worst:
 - The application silently crashes or sometimes displays "The application has
crashed and will now terminate" when trying to load a household, or the
tutorial household. On the upside, the objects can be seen textured
(previously, they were all white).

Results may vary depending on graphics card / drivers - Mine's a GTX 960 with
the latest NVIDIA driver from the Ubuntu repos. By the way, thanks swswine for
the discovery! I'd be happy to test this game further.