[Bug 13200] New: Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

Summary: Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.0-rc1
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=13032)
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Screenshot of the game as it appeares in 8bpp "StaticColor" mode

In a real Windows installation (either on the real hardware or within vmware),
MS Pinball Arcade looks normal, but when running under Wine/Linux in an Xorg
8bpp StaticColor visual, it looks like some color depth is being lost, almost
like 7 bits per pixel.  This affects all parts of the game - intro screens, the
menu, ,loading screens, and game tables.

If you switch to a StaticGray visual, you get what looks like a full 256-greys
screen.  Brightness transitions are smoother (e.g. finer steps and banding)
than their StaticColor counterparts.

In the screenshots, it is probably easiest to see the difference between the
two visuals along the edges of the table and in the ball launch trough on the
right.

Expected Results:
The game should look exactly like it does in Windows.

Affected Versions:
All recent versions up through 1.0 rc1.  I can't be sure when this started,
I've only been using Wine since around 0.9.31.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #1 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2008-05-13 15:50:04 ---
Created an attachment (id=13033)
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Game as it appears in a StaticGray visual

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #2 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2008-05-13 15:52:11 ---
Created an attachment (id=13035)
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Xorg.conf showing how Static{Gray|Color} modes are specified.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #3 from Austin English   2008-11-12 14:28:54 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.8 or newer) wine?

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #4 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2008-11-14 16:28:14 ---
Something unrelated to WINE has corrupted the install of MS Pinball that we
were using, or at least has rendered it unplayable.  It will take a few months
to be able to retrieve the install media from storage (1300 miles away), so
this report will have to kinda "hang" for a while until I can re-install the
game.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #5 from Austin English   2009-05-18 10:49:26 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.21 or newer) wine?

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #6 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2009-05-18 17:39:35 ---
Yep, still the same with 1.1.21.  The game looks identical to the "StaticColor"
screenshot above.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #7 from Austin English   2009-11-19 11:31:56 ---
Perhaps Roderick's libxrender work has helped this? Can you retry in 1.1.33 or
newer wine?

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

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--- Comment #8 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2009-11-19 14:33:48 ---
Ok, I've added the WINE Ubuntu repository ( http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
) for Karmic Koala, and brought in 1.1.33.  I'm afraid this has made things far
worse.

Now, all of the intro, menu, and loading screens are in shades of white with
very few colors - almost like someone's run the screens through a brightness
and contrast filter and turned both all the way up.  Further, at the point
where I should see the game table, the screen is actually blanked out - there
is no visible content at all.

Wine is now throwing errors like crazy (actually the same error message
repeated over and over), producing far more output than my terminal can capture
(and for some reason, wine blah.exe 2>&1 >file.txt isn't enough to capture the
output).  I've saved what I could, and will attach it.

If I instead try commenting out the 'Visual "StaticColor"' bit from my
xorg.conf , and run the game in 8bpp mode with the default visual (which I
assume is PseudoColor), I get poor results - almost no color at all, and only
the brightest stuff is even visible - I've seen this before in older versions
of WINE.

If I try to run the game in my normal 24bpp session, I get the exact same
results as in bug #13198 .

Removing ~/.wine (and subsequently rerunning `winecfg` and recreating my
Drive-C symlink) did not help.  In fact, I had to do this again when I
downgraded back to the official Karmic package (1.0.1), as not doing so caused
WINE to crash.

I have my original game CD again, and I'd be glad to make a copy or two of it
available for testing and debugging purposes, in observance of the US's fair
use guidelines.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #9 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2009-11-19 17:59:40 ---
Created an attachment (id=24846)
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error/debug output, in 8bpp StaticColor mode

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #10 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2009-11-19 18:00:18 ---
Created an attachment (id=24847)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=24847)
error/debug output in 8bpp mode, default visual (PseudoColor?)

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

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--- Comment #11 from Austin English   2010-05-19 16:11:37 ---
Does the demo have the same problem?
http://www.microsoft.com/games/pinball/downloads.htm

Is this still an issue in current (1.1.44 or newer) wine?

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #12 from Austin English   2010-05-19 16:45:27 ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 6
months. Is this still an issue in current (1.1.44 or newer) wine?

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

--- Comment #13 from Vanessa Ezekowitz   2010-05-19 18:04:45 ---
Recent versions of WINE have had many troubles with this game.  Anything over
1.1.25 does one of the following, depending on which version we tried (always
with the same build settings, and always displayed on a second X session with
an 8bpp "StaticColor" visual):

* Crashes WINE outright at game start
* Crashes WINE when you pull the plunger back to launch a ball
* Displays a black screen (on the 8bpp visual that is)
* Displays the game screen but with garbled colors
* Causes the game to exit back to the table select menu when the table is
finished, instead of asking for another quarter as usual.

We probably should have made up some kind of version-vs-problem log, but as I
recall, 1.1.26 and several versions newer had the problem with the
quarter/end-of-table, while 1.1.44 displayed garbled colors.

At any rate, we've masked it back to 1.1.25, which is the highest numbered
version we've found that shows none of the above issues; it is the most recent
one which is fully usable with this particular game.

That aside, every version higher than that which *did* display a non-black,
non-garbled screen still showed the apparent 7bpp depth.

[Bug 13200] Microsoft Pinball Arcade missing some color depth

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Mutlu Can YILMAZ  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Mutlu Can YILMAZ  2012-02-28 07:39:45 CST ---
still the same with 1.3 :(

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--- Comment #15 from Jerome Leclanche  2012-02-28 09:53:44 CST ---
(In reply to comment #14)
Please retest with 1.4-rc5, not 1.3. 1.3 is a very old version.

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--- Comment #16 from Austin English  ---
No reply in 2 years, marking abandoned.

If this is still an issue in current (1.7.16 or newer) wine and you can provide
the needed information, feel free to reopen.

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--- Comment #17 from [e-mail] ---
Closing.