[Bug 2885] Max Payne fails to start

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2885

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2005-10-11 11:08 -------
* Andreas wrote:
| 
| > is this on a completely fresh install?
| 
| No. And why would it be?

Sometimes it's easier to find a bug if you test app without having additional
stuff in the system.

| > (so after rm -rf ~/.wine) If not , please try on a fresh install.
| 
| Not a chance in hell!
| If you seriously think I'll reinstall all apps that need registry entries,
| among those rather fickly ones like the SoF series, you've got another
| thing coming. If you can give me a list of potentially dangerous registry
| entries, I'll check for those, but I absolutely, positively draw the line
| at a fresh install.

Hey, don't treat "rm -rf" in an absolute scale. :-)
Fresh install can be tested without losing the old one.  Put the old one in a
safe place and you are done.  In UNIX all stuff is files, so you just operate on
them in a way you like. :-P

| What I did try was renaming all *.reg files (and config) in my ~/.wine
| directory so none of the files should have been seen by Wine, and the
| program failed in the same way. That could also have been caused by
| then missing registry entries, though, but that's as close to a fresh
| install as I'm going to go.

Yes, but just try:

$ mkdir ~/BACKUPS
$ mv ~/.wine ~/BACKUPS 
$ wineprefixcreate

That should put your existing wine setup into a safe place and should create a
new fresh "~/.wine" directory, AFAIK.

| > It seems at first it is loaded by x11drv, then unloaded, and then loaded
| > again by e2_d3d8_driver_mfc.dll.  My Max Payne is demo v1.05.
| 
| That rings a bell: Bug 2725, which I also get when a 3D rendering context
| (OpenGL in 2725) is destroyed and then immediately reopened (when it fails).
| This may even be driver-specific.

If fresh "~/.wine" doesn't help, then add +opengl flag to the previous
combination mentioned here and attach the output, please.

And one wild guess: does switching a Desktop Double Buffering checkbox (winecfg
-> Graphics) make any difference?