http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398
------- Additional Comments From mail@science.su 2006-21-12 09:50 -------
Since this might be card/driver specific, I should have given my system details. The Google Earth rest-of-screen-overdrawn-black problem I saw was with a Compaq Presario R3000.
I don't think that this is driver specific. I tested current git with Xorg 6.9 and 7.1 with 9629, 9631 and 9742 (beta) NVidia drivers - OpenGL child windows are drawn correctly but everything else is overdrawn with black. Of course this can be considered like "improvement" but only if this is first step in fixing this problem. This affect all application that uses child windows include Google Earth, Lightwave and many, many others...
What is espesially bad with this bug that it affects all professional software that uses OpenGL/Direct3D. There is other bugs with Direct3D child window in Google Earth (at least) but before fixing minor bugs we first must fix somehow this rest-of-window-overdrawn-by-black problem - this probably biggest bug in current Wine. There is no other *single* bug that affect so many applications.
As I said I think that everyone have this probmlem but in case if someone have no rest-of-window-overdrawn-by-black problem please report what videodriver and X server you have.