http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58515
Bug ID: 58515 Summary: Street Chaves only displays a black screen (regression) Product: Wine Version: 10.11 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: denilsonsa@gmail.com Distribution: ---
Wine versions up to 9.7 were able to render the game graphics correctly. Now I tested again on Wine version 10.11 and all I get is a black screen.
The game seems to be working, because I can blindly press "Z" to confirm, then "5" to insert credits (and hear the sound effect), and "1" to start, an "Z" a couple of times to select my character and advance to the actual fight… After all of this, I can hear the in-game music and the in-game sound effects of the fight. I just can't see any of it due to being pure black.
How to reproduce?
1. Get the game archive from https://archive.org/details/street-chaves-1.5-a 2. Unpack it anywhere, and run `wine Chaves.exe` 3. After a few moments, a black window without any decoration will show up.
Having no decorations is normal expected behavior. Having it completely black is a bug/regression.
Tests?
The game works fine under "Proton Experimental" on the Steam Deck, but I don't know exactly what is the Wine version.
It also works fine under "Proton 10.0-1 (beta)".
It does NOT work (black screen) under Wine 10.11 on Manjaro Linux.
It does NOT work (black screen) under wine-ge-8-26-x86_64, which is the default Wine runner for Lutris, installed from Flatpak. https://lutris.net/games/street-chaves/
Other Wine versions are untested.
If you are testing other versions, please be aware that older versions had a problem with keyboard input. You could see graphics on the screen, but you couldn't progress any further. This has been solved in bug 52738.
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Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |download URL| |https://archive.org/details | |/street-chaves-1.5-a Summary|Street Chaves only displays |Street Chaves only displays |a black screen (regression) |a black screen
--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- Please run a regression test. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Regression-Testing
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Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|-unknown |winex11.drv
--- Comment #2 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- Thanks for the link with the instructions. Even though I have used git bisect before, it's always good to know the exact steps needed for each project. In the case of wine, it's pretty straightforward (although slow to compile because wine is huge).
git bisect tells me:
187720358e7c7be1d506c299c630b4e5b2714c61 is the first bad commit
Author: Rémi Bernon rbernon@codeweavers.com Date: Thu Jun 12 09:54:26 2025 +0200
winex11: Drop pixmap-based child window workaround.
This commit cannot be directly reverted, as it has conflicts with the `master` branch.
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Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regression SHA1| |187720358e7c7be1d506c299c63 | |0b4e5b2714c61
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Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |regression CC| |rbernon@codeweavers.com
--- Comment #3 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- That is brilliant. Thank you.
The other thing needed is to capture the console output from the game (running vanilla Wine) and attach it to this bug report. I can't find a Wiki link for that! $ wine program.exe >console.log
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--- Comment #4 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- Created attachment 79000 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=79000 console.log
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--- Comment #5 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- Comment on attachment 79000 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=79000 console.log
That console.log was made with Wine built on commit 187720358e7c7be1d506c299c630b4e5b2714c61
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--- Comment #6 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- I can't run this at all. I tried Wine 9.0.1, 10.11 and 10.12 but all I get is 0024:err:seh:NtRaiseException Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.
I just tried "wine Chaves.exe" but it simply will not start for me at all.
How are you running this?
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--- Comment #7 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- I'm running the same way as I used to run, almost 20 years ago: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4688&i...
wine Chaves.exe
Despite the errors in the console, a small black window shows up. If you have a large display, you may miss that window, and you have to look around.
If that doesn't work, try again with an empty WINEPREFIX directory.
You can see that error message as part of my console.log that I attached earlier.
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In fact, if I reuse the same prefix multiple times on either 187720358e7c7be1d506c299c630b4e5b2714c61 or bb413905906c6394f28ae696e0e66dd6ee94a660 wine commit versions, then the game doesn't seem to launch at all the second time, crashing/freezing with this message:
top: dlls/winex11.drv/xvidmode.c:164: xf86vm_free_modes: Assertion `modes[0].dmDriverExtra == sizeof(XF86VidModeModeInfo *)' failed. wine: Assertion failed at address F7FA3579 (thread 00e4), starting debugger...
This means there are further things broken in recent Wine versions. I will try finding the last known good version.
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--- Comment #8 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- Okay, I don't know if there is a problem with my setup, or if this "other bug" exists since a long time. If I try reusing the same WINEPREFIX, it fails the second time. And it seems to exist as early as e97e39c69e9ffc312e0288fd82acd057ba2e1f3f, possibly earlier (I just gave up trying to bisect any further).
This is the manual testing script I've been using while git-bisecting:
#!/bin/sh export CC='ccache gcc' ./configure --disable-tests || exit 125 make -j 6 || exit 125 export WINEPREFIX=/tmp/winetesting/PREFIX rm -rf "$WINEPREFIX" || exit 125 export WINE="$HOME/wine-git/wine" cd "$HOME/foobar/StreetChaves_1.5A/" "$WINE" "Chaves.exe"
This consistently worked fine in detecting the commit the made the window render as just black. But whenever I reuse the same WINEPREFIX and call the same command again, it breaks. I don't know why. And it seems unrelated to the bug I reported here (black window).
I know Wine version 0.9.8 was able to reuse the same prefix while trying this game. I know Proton 6 and now Proton Experimental both are able to launch the game multiple times. This leads me to believe there is something wrong when I'm launching Wine directly from the wine-git directory.
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--- Comment #9 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- You need to test in a fresh, clean wineprefix each time. There's no guarantee that a wineprefix will work between different versions of Wine.
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--- Comment #10 from Denilson Sá denilsonsa@gmail.com --- Here's a short recording of the game running inside Wine 10.0-rc2 (i.e. the commit that fixed bug 52738)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZymxUJj9Y
It's using a fresh WINEPREFIX, see the `rm -rf` right before launching the game.
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