[Bug 40508] New: The Witness: black screen on start (32-bit version)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40508

Bug ID: 40508
           Summary: The Witness: black screen on start (32-bit version)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.9.8
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 54303
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=54303
Terminal output from a 32-bit prefix, Wine 1.9.8

My system info:

Host: antergos Kernel: 4.5.1-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome 3.20.1
Distro: Antergos Linux
Card: NVIDIA GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1200@59.95hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.16

I am using Wine 1.9.8 from the official Arch repos with a clean 32-bit prefix
and no overrides.

When I attempt to run the 32-bit version of The Witness using the command "wine
witness_d3d11.exe" I am first greeted with a warning about the graphics driver
not supporting concurrent resource creation and then I see a configuration menu
for the game. After I choose my configuration, I am then shown a black screen
that persists until I kill the process.

I have attempted to run the game on medium settings with multisampling disabled
as well as with 2x MSAA enabled with high settings and I have the same exact
result: a black screen that I need to kill manually in order to get rid of it.

[Bug 40508] The Witness: black screen on start (32-bit version)

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--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 54304
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Dialogue box warning me about my graphics driver

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--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
I forgot to add that I am running the game in Windows 7 mode.

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
Issue persists in Wine 1.9.9 in Windows 7 mode.

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[Bug 40508] The Witness: black screen on start (32-bit version)

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--- Comment #4 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 54593
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Main menu for The Witness in Wine 1.9.11

There is some progress. I can see a main menu now for The Witness in a clean
32-bit prefix with Windows 7 mode. No overrides were used.

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 54594
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The Witness game in Wine 1.9.11

Wine 1.9.11 gives me the mouse cursor and I can hear sounds but I still cannot
see the actual game.

I also still continue to receive the dialog box warning about my graphics
driver not being supported (see comment 1 for further details and screenshot of
this box)

The game is no longer simply black on start, now it's a milky beige but I can
hear sounds and possibly interact with the game world.

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--- Comment #6 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 54765
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Terminal output Wine 1.9.12

Wine 1.9.12 shows no improvement over
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40508#c5

I've attached the terminal output for the game after 5 minutes of trying to do
anything in the game.

Please be warned that uncompressed the log weighs in at 105 MB.

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--- Comment #7 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 56384
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The Witness orange screen

After the game loads, I get an orange screen in a clean WIndows 7 prefix in
Wine 2.0-rc1.

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--- Comment #8 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 56385
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Wine 2.0-rc1 terminal output

Terminal output from when the game loads until I get to the orange screen.

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--- Comment #9 from Josh  ---
Is this still an issue with the latest Wine release? It looks like someone was
able to get the game working with Wine 2.1 on AppDB.

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--- Comment #10 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 57369
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The Witness in Wine 2.2-33-g60c98caa94

This is what The Witness (32-bit) looks like in Wine 2.2-33-g60c98caa94. The
person who managed to get it working in AppDB was using Wine-Gaming-Nine which
is unsupported by the Wine team AFAIK.

My hardware info:

Nvidia 970 GTX using the official drivers version 378.13.

One thing I did notice is this line in the all the OMSetBlendState spam:

fixme:d3d11:d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState Ignoring
AlphaToCoverageEnable 0x1.

Not sure if it has any bearing on the situation at hand though...

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--- Comment #11 from Stefan Heid  ---
For me (Nvidea GTX 1060, Wine 2.1, Archlinux) it runs quiet good at minimal
settings.

The first 2 minutes are difficult, because you start in a cave which is dark
and buggy, but once you left the cave the game is really playable. I recommend
to watch a let's play to find the way out.

On my Laptop the game fails, claiming there is no "graphics adapter" (intel HD
4600 with Mesa 17.0.0)

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--- Comment #12 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Stefan Heid from comment #11)
> For me (Nvidea GTX 1060, Wine 2.1, Archlinux) it runs quiet good at minimal
> settings.
>
> The first 2 minutes are difficult, because you start in a cave which is dark
> and buggy, but once you left the cave the game is really playable. I
> recommend to watch a let's play to find the way out.
>
> On my Laptop the game fails, claiming there is no "graphics adapter" (intel
> HD 4600 with Mesa 17.0.0)

I will have to attempt playing it with the lowest settings as the last time I
checked the game I had it set to the highest settings.

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--- Comment #13 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to fjfrackiewicz from comment #12)
> (In reply to Stefan Heid from comment #11)
> > For me (Nvidea GTX 1060, Wine 2.1, Archlinux) it runs quiet good at minimal
> > settings.
> >
> > The first 2 minutes are difficult, because you start in a cave which is dark
> > and buggy, but once you left the cave the game is really playable. I
> > recommend to watch a let's play to find the way out.
> >
> > On my Laptop the game fails, claiming there is no "graphics adapter" (intel
> > HD 4600 with Mesa 17.0.0)
>
> I will have to attempt playing it with the lowest settings as the last time
> I checked the game I had it set to the highest settings.

It's confirmed. The game will display garbage when I attempt to run it on
Medium or High settings but will be somewhat playable when running it on Low
settings.

I guess Wine still needs a long ways to go in order to implement 2X MSAA
(medium setting) and 4X/8X/12X/16X MSAA (High setting).

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Grazvydas Ignotas  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Grazvydas Ignotas  ---
Seems to be quite close to fully working indeed (on low settings with
multisampling off).

Current fixmes:
fixme:d3d:wined3d_buffer_create Ignoring access flags (pool). 
fixme:d3d_shader:shader_glsl_handle_instruction Backend can't handle opcode:
dcl_input_ps, dcl_input_ps_siv, dcl_input_ps_sgv, ld2dms.

older fixmes, no longer in 2,5:
fixme:d3d11:d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState Per-rendertarget blend not
implemented.
fixme:d3d11:d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState Color mask > 3 not
implemented.

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--- Comment #15 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Grazvydas Ignotas from comment #14)
> older fixmes, no longer in 2,5:
> fixme:d3d11:d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState Per-rendertarget blend
> not implemented.
> fixme:d3d11:d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState Color mask > 3 not
> implemented.

These just got a patch that they wont be so loud anymore. Nothing really got
fixed. No idea how important is it to fix these. But the lines were spamming
logs and console so much that it should be a lot more readable.

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Józef Kucia  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Józef Kucia  ---
The Witness should run much better in Wine after recent fixes (after commit
e500cf7d973f002cab7d7a08e01803425b7473e2). The dark cave issue is fixed by
proper support for sRGB render target views. The game should also run on High
settings when MSAA is disabled. I think this bug report could marked as
resolved.

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--- Comment #17 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Józef Kucia from comment #16)
> The Witness should run much better in Wine after recent fixes (after commit
> e500cf7d973f002cab7d7a08e01803425b7473e2). The dark cave issue is fixed by
> proper support for sRGB render target views. The game should also run on
> High settings when MSAA is disabled. I think this bug report could marked as
> resolved.

Hi Józef,

I'll check the latest version of Wine when I get home from work.

By the way, would it be OK to file a bug for the game not working properly when
using MSAA?

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--- Comment #18 from Józef Kucia  ---
Created attachment 57839
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MSAA hack

(In reply to fjfrackiewicz from comment #17)
> By the way, would it be OK to file a bug for the game not working properly
> when using MSAA?

Yes.

I'm also attaching a hack for MSAA.

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--- Comment #19 from Grazvydas Ignotas  ---
Created attachment 57872
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screenshot

Thanks, it's a lot better indeed, but at least on mesa there are problems:

- transparency (see attached screenshot)
- puzzles are black unless the player is close (or far) enough
- shading inside the cave is not "smooth", feels like 8bit color or something

This is with mesa git on RX470. It's playable, but it would be great to resolve
the first issue, the others are minor. MSAA hack also solves the black screen,
but I'm not sure the setting has any effect.

I suggest to keep this bug open though as MSAA is enabled by default, so users
will still get black screen out of the box.

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--- Comment #20 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 57874
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The Witness, medium settings, MSAA turned off

The game looks about the same as the previous comment on an Nvidia 970 GTX
using the latest official drivers (version 378.13 as of right now). Also, I did
not use the MSAA hack to make this screenshot as I wanted to save that for a
separate bug report regarding MSAA support.

I too get the black screen on the puzzles if I am at a certain distance from
them.

Also, I am not sure if it's the game or something else but a lot of the
elements in the game (trees, bushes, clouds, etc.) look rather blocky.

All in all, the game looks a lot better than when I first attempted to play it.

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[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #21 from [e-mail] ---
In any case, since the original bug (the black screen on start) is now
officially fixed and the game is quite playable in the current state of Wine, I
am marking this particular bug report as fixed and I, or any one else
interested in playing the game, should file new bug reports for the game.

Thank you Józef :)

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #22 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 2.6.