[Bug 57230] New: F.E.A.R Combat black screen at startup due to out of memory error

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57230

Bug ID: 57230
           Summary: F.E.A.R Combat black screen at startup due to out of
                    memory error
           Product: Wine
           Version: 9.18
          Hardware: x86-64
               URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240924151800/https://www
                    .fear-community.eu/files/fear_combat_202_community_ful
                    l_multilang_beta3.exe
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ArchLinux

Created attachment 77147
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=77147
Wine 9.18 startup oom

This might be a duplicate of bug 55593, but the messages are a bit different
and it happens at program startup and not at starting a new game. Not to
mention that there might be a relevant difference between F.E.A.R and F.E.A.R
Combat.

F.E.A.R Combat is the multiplayer part of F.E.A.R, which was released freely
back in 2006. The official lobby server, download, and key generation were shut
down years ago, but are being kept alive by the community.

You can get all you need at
https://www.fear-community.eu/#update_fear_combat_sec2. I've also mirrored the
installer to archive.org and added that link in the URL field.
Getting a key requires a free registration with just an email address. If that
turns out to be a problem, I'm happy to share mine privately.
> $ du -h fear_combat_202_community_full_multilang_beta3.exe 
> 2,0G    fear_combat_202_community_full_multilang_beta3.exe
> $ md5sum fear_combat_202_community_full_multilang_beta3.exe 
> dd38096e5bf31641a757c233718803f8  fear_combat_202_community_full_multilang_beta3.exe

For reproduction simply start FEARMP.exe. You should see a low resolution black
screen and messages like these in the console:
> 0024:err:d3dx:d3dx_pool_sync_shared_parameter Out of memory.
> 0024:fixme:d3dx:d3dx9_effect_init_from_binary Failed to parse effect.
> wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 8075000D at address 7BB05298 (thread 0024), starting debugger...

[Bug 57230] F.E.A.R Combat black screen at startup due to out of memory error

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57230

--- Comment #1 from LingM  ---
Further testing shows that installing native d3dx9 with winetricks fixes the
issue.