[Bug 46799] New: Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

Bug ID: 46799
           Summary: Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2
           Product: Wine
           Version: 4.2
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Happens with Guild Wars 2 as well as Skyrim. Guild Wars 2 is available free to
play at https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Second screen goes black, if windowed fullscreen was selected the game launches
on the mainscreen yet stretches to the resolution of both screens. Once the
game is exited, the window manager (awesomewm) is no longer showing the wm bar
at the top of the second screen.

I'm using the propriety nvidia drivers (on a GTX 1080).

[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

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[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

--- Comment #1 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
The author said that proton doesn't have this issue. So it feels like the
fullscreen hack on proton work around this.

[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

--- Comment #2 from Henri Verbeet  ---
(In reply to Zhiyi Zhang from comment #1)
> The author said that proton doesn't have this issue. So it feels like the
> fullscreen hack on proton work around this.

Yes, this happens because of the RandR implementation in the proprietary NVIDIA
drivers. There should be a winediag message about this in the terminal.

[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
I think the basic issue here is that wine should not take that much control
over the hardware/software. It's overstepping its task by becoming windows
rather than just running windows software. I'd also like to state that Linux
games, including those that run SDL do not have this issue either, to me it
seems pretty confined to wine.

The dxdiag message only states its falling back, it doesn't mention anything
about taking control of all available monitors and preventing the window
manager from functioning properly.

[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

--- Comment #4 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
(In reply to trainingmacro from comment #3)
> I think the basic issue here is that wine should not take that much control
> over the hardware/software. It's overstepping its task by becoming windows
> rather than just running windows software. I'd also like to state that Linux
> games, including those that run SDL do not have this issue either, to me it
> seems pretty confined to wine.
>
> The dxdiag message only states its falling back, it doesn't mention anything
> about taking control of all available monitors and preventing the window
> manager from functioning properly.

Hi, you could try upgrade your driver or use the open source nouveau driver.

[Bug 46799] Second screen goes black when starting Guild Wars 2

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799

--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] ---
Upgrading the driver has yielded no change, I'm unwilling to use the nouveau
because I think that will remove 90% of my performance with the videocard.