[Bug 14590] New: The car shadows appear red and blocky.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

Summary: The car shadows appear red and blocky.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.1
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://flatout2.sierra.com/us/
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

It seems that the map is split into a grid, and the squares of the grid that
are affected by shadows are rendered with a red shade. When the shadow moves
forward so much that it would touch the next square, that square gets filled
with red immediately, so the squares sort of "jump" forward.

This is a screenshot from the AppDB:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=18818

And a demo version can be found here:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_16702.shtml

This is the only, and so far most severe bug I've found in the game running in
Wine, it's quite annoying! It would be good enough if there was a way to
disable the shadows!

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

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            Summary|The car shadows appear red  |Car shadows appear red and
                   |and blocky.                 |blocky in Flatout 2

--- Comment #1 from Lei Zhang   2008-07-22 12:59:13 ---
What video card / driver version are you using?

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #2 from FruitieX   2008-07-24 05:44:11 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> What video card / driver version are you using?

I am using the latest Nvidia linux drivers (173.14.09) and an Nvidia GeForce
9500M GS (512MB).

My distribution is ArchLinux.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

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--- Comment #3 from Lubos Dolezel   2008-08-28 13:08:39 ---
I can confirm this on a NVIDIA Quadro 320M (8xxx series), but it is OK on my
GeForce 7950GX2. I hope this helps a bit.

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--- Comment #4 from Lei Zhang   2008-08-28 13:14:31 ---
Confirming then.

Are you using the same driver version with both of those cards?

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--- Comment #5 from Lubos Dolezel   2008-08-28 13:19:13 ---
Yes, I am. I even tried the latest beta version (177.70).

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--- Comment #6 from Tomasz Sałaciński   2008-10-05 08:08:02 ---
Confirming on Fedora 10 Beta, wine-1.1.5-399-g82f77cc and NVIDIA drivers 177.x

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

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--- Comment #7 from Tomasz Sałaciński   2008-11-04 05:06:31 ---
I can tell it is not related to video drivers.

After installing DirectX9 via

sh winetricks directx9

Shadows are drawn properly. Also, postprocessing works perfect (no more crash
at runtime).

AFAIK MS DirectX9 cannot interfere with Linux drivers, so it seems it's  a
Wine's DirectX bug.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #8 from FruitieX   2008-11-04 12:35:42 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I can tell it is not related to video drivers.
>
> After installing DirectX9 via
>
> sh winetricks directx9
>
> Shadows are drawn properly. Also, postprocessing works perfect (no more crash
> at runtime).
>
> AFAIK MS DirectX9 cannot interfere with Linux drivers, so it seems it's  a
> Wine's DirectX bug.

Thanks for that tip, works for me too!

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

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--- Comment #9 from Warren Dumortier   2009-11-15 14:52:31 ---
Created an attachment (id=24767)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=24767)
FlatOut 2 on Wine 1.1.33 (with correct shadows)

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--- Comment #10 from Warren Dumortier   2009-11-15 14:53:31 ---
This seems to be fixed since a long time, the shadows are drawn correctly using
standard Wine and DirectX implementation. I've added a screenshot as proof if
it would be needed, it can be marked as fixed in my opinion.

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--- Comment #11 from Wylda   2009-11-17 01:59:05 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> This seems to be _fixed_ since ... using ... DirectX implementation.

So as you see, this does not fulfill FIXED status. Based on test from current
git (wine-1.1.33-88-gd51b4e1) and to make it more clear, you need native:

* d3dx9_36.dll  --otherwise game will not run

* d3dx9_30.dll  --to get rid of red shadows, i.e. "cosmetic"

Could anyone advise, how can i find out, which functions are used from these to
DLLs? Because i noticed some bug report listing needed functions in d3dx9_36
and could add others (i know, ideally we need them all implemented ;)

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--- Comment #12 from Johan Palmqvist   2009-11-17 10:58:46 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> - d3dx9_36.dll  --otherwise game will not run

I just reinstalled the game (patched to 1.2) in a clean Wine-prefix (1.1.33)
without adding native DirectX. Don't know if it's my settings but I can run the
game without native d3dx9_36.dll. I just added a native d3dx9_30.dll. I guess
d3dx9_36.dll is just a wrapper because without d3dx9_30.dll I get this:

wine: Call from 0x7b840249 to unimplemented function
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateEffect, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateEffect called at address
0x7b840249 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #13 from Warren Dumortier   2009-11-17 12:11:55 ---
Sorry, there's a misunderstanding but i meant with the DirectX implementation
of Wine.

Please try with a clean prefix using latest Wine, here it works out-of-the-box,
no native dll's are required!

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #14 from Johan Palmqvist   2009-11-18 00:55:06 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> Please try with a clean prefix using latest Wine, here it works out-of-the-box,
> no native dll's are required!

Did you patch the game to v1.2 and enable post processing effects? I can't get
it to run without a native d3dx9_30.dll.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #15 from Wylda   2009-12-26 16:49:53 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> Please try with a clean prefix using latest Wine, here it works out-of-the-box,
> no native dll's are required!

Hi Warren, i did it, i mean i did the installation of Flatout2 in clean wine
environment and i am not able to even run this game without d3dx9_36.dll.
Without those dll Flatout2 crashes and gives a backtrace. Problem here is
really:

wine: Call from 0x7b84548f to unimplemented function
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateEffect, aborting

Everything is OK with those two DLLs here. So i guess you are using some 
"different" version of v1.2 (US? / EU? / steam?? if exists) or your versions
install those DLLs together with the game?

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #16 from Johan Palmqvist   2009-12-31 02:33:21 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Hi Warren, i did it, i mean i did the installation of Flatout2 in clean wine
> environment and i am not able to even run this game without d3dx9_36.dll.

Have you tried to just drop the native d3dx9_30.dll directly in the game
directory and keeping Wine's d3dx9_30.dll and d3dx9_36.dll in windows/system32?

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #17 from Warren Dumortier   2009-12-31 03:27:00 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > Hi Warren, i did it, i mean i did the installation of Flatout2 in clean wine
> > environment and i am not able to even run this game without d3dx9_36.dll.
>
> Have you tried to just drop the native d3dx9_30.dll directly in the game
> directory and keeping Wine's d3dx9_30.dll and d3dx9_36.dll in windows/system32?

Yes, i'm sorry, my bad. Maybe it worked if i had checked to install DirectX on
the end of the installation, but i can't remember, but with plain wined3d it
crashes without the native dll.

But the reported bug, the graphical bug in fact, is fixed, well for me at
least.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #18 from Wylda   2010-01-01 13:48:53 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> Have you tried to just drop the native d3dx9_30.dll directly in the game
> directory and keeping Wine's d3dx9_30.dll and d3dx9_36.dll in windows/system32?

That is exactly what i did. Left the DLL untouched in windows/system32 and put
the 30 & 36 to the same dir like Flatout's exe. Then you don't even need to
mess with winecfg and native settings.

(In reply to comment #16)
> But the reported bug, the graphical bug in fact, is fixed, well for me
> at least.

It is not fixed, but work arounded. Without d3dx9_30.dll there are still red
shadows. Like i alredy wrote at comment #11.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14590

--- Comment #19 from Warren Dumortier   2010-01-01 14:07:57 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > Have you tried to just drop the native d3dx9_30.dll directly in the game
> > directory and keeping Wine's d3dx9_30.dll and d3dx9_36.dll in windows/system32?
>
> That is exactly what i did. Left the DLL untouched in windows/system32 and put
> the 30 & 36 to the same dir like Flatout's exe. Then you don't even need to
> mess with winecfg and native settings.
>
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > But the reported bug, the graphical bug in fact, is fixed, well for me
> > at least.
>
> It is not fixed, but work arounded. Without d3dx9_30.dll there are still red
> shadows. Like i alredy wrote at comment #11.

Well not here in fact, i simply added d3dx9_36.dll and the game started, but i
didn't encounter the mentionned bug. I use the very latest Nvidia drivers if it
would matter.

[Bug 14590] Car shadows appear red and blocky in Flatout 2

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--- Comment #20 from Dan Kegel  2011-06-09 19:27:48 CDT ---
d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateEffect* is bug 11675

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11675 ***

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--- Comment #21 from Austin English  2011-06-16 13:20:56 CDT ---
Closing.