[Bug 9030] army men hangs on black screen

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9030

--- Comment #41 from EA Durbin  2010-09-08 07:12:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #40)
> It's not clear at all what is the source of the problem.

According to Henri Verbeet,

It seems the game uses the system palette to generate a palette for its
ddraw surfaces, but the system palette is empty. The reason the system
palette is empty is that
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=dlls/winex11.drv/palette.c;h...
explicitly creates an empty palette for TrueColor (and DirectColor)
visuals. Always taking the else-branch there also makes the game display
something.

Writing some tests for GetSystemPaletteEntries() should probably be the
first step for fixing that bug. Note that this pretty much seems to be a
gdi32/winex11.drv issue, and I'm not familiar with most of the code in
there.