[Bug 9725] New: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9725

Summary: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA
                    drivers
           Product: WineHQ Apps Database
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: website-bugs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=8157)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=8157)
my nvidia-bug-report.log

I have just switched from an ATI 9700pro to a BFG 6600gt. Unfortunately, Medal
Of Honor: Allied Assault (MOHAA) will no longer run (the single player demo
shows the same problem). With my ATI board, it ran without a hitch in Wine.
After installing the latest Nvidia-glx drivers for Ubuntu Edgy, mohaa fails to
start. An empty grey screen is displayed, with the cursor visible. It seems
that it just can't start the game. ALL other Open-GL games run fine. Here are
my specs:

O/S: Ubuntu Edgy, i386 build
CPU: AMD 3000+ 64
RAM: 1GB DDR RAM
GPU: Nvidia BFG 6600GT
H/D: Seagate: Dedicated FAT32 partition

I have installed the nvidia-glx drivers via apt-get, as well as installed the
latest linux drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run). Both produce the
same result.

Here is the output:

$ wine MOHAADemo.exe -opengl
aarons@Aaron-desktop:/media/DSK1_VOL3/mohdemo$ fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx
Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x5f564e5f at address 0x5f564e5f
(thread 0010), starting debugger...
Usage:
        winedbg [ [ --gdb ] [ prog-name [ prog-args ] | <num> | file.mdmp |
--help ]
$

I have tried everything there is to try. I removed the card and replaced with
the old ATI and it runs. I used different versions of wine (up to 0.9.44) to no
effect. Either it is an NVIDIA bug or a Wine bug.

-Aaron Sawyer

[Bug 9725] Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9725

Jesse Allen  changed:

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         OS/Version|other                       |Linux
            Product|WineHQ Apps Database        |Wine
            Version|unspecified                 |0.9.44.

[Bug 9725] Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9725

--- Comment #1 from Austin English   2007-09-20 20:35:11 ---
Do you have a link to the demo?

[Bug 9725] Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

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--- Comment #2 from Rico   2007-09-21 05:42:28 ---
Download:
http://gameswelt.de/pc/downloads/demos/detail.php?item_id=20688

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joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from joaopa   2007-09-21 06:56:30 ---
I tried the demo version (english version) and it works fine, except the well
known bug about the mouse.

I use a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 go.

Joaopa

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Austin English  changed:

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                URL|                            |ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/
                   |                            |pub/demos/mohaaspdemo.EXE
           Keywords|                            |download

--- Comment #4 from Austin English   2007-09-21 14:12:11 ---
Aaron, in the future, please post in bugzilla, don't reply via e-mail.
> From e-mail:

Sure:

ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/demos/mohaaspdemo.EXE

-Aaron

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--- Comment #5 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-09-21 17:28:14 ---
Yeah - the problem is with newer Nvidia cards. I have a Geforce 3 and it works
great. My new 6600gt is showing problems though. I have a guy in NVIDIA
linux-bugs working on this as well. Hopefully we can find out why the new cards
have problems with this app.

-Aaron
> > I tried the demo version (english version) and it works fine, except the well
> > known bug about the mouse.
> > I use a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 go.
> > Joaopa

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--- Comment #6 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-09-21 19:29:16 ---
> > Are you sure this is not the MOHAA fixed size OpenGL Extension Buffer size >>bug(yes, MOHAA bugs not Wine or nVididia)?

I have never even heard of this bug. If it is due to this extension buffer bug,
why did my ATI card have no problems? I do remember reading somewhere of an
opengGL library issue for the native version of mohaa:

http://www.liflg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=842&sid=ed71f006050a26c64c47f...

But this is not my problem. I am not receiving an opengl error! Opengl loads
fine. The game simply fails to start. The screen is resized and the game is
just about to load when it exists.

Do you guys think this is an NVIDIA driver bug, or a Wine bug?

Thanks,

-Aaron

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--- Comment #7 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-09-21 19:55:44 ---
Hello folks.

I recently came across a very interesting page that tells how Cedega fixed a
MOHAA limitation with the OpenGL extension string. Mohaa can only handle a
string less than 1024 characters:

http://downloads.transgaming.com/files/cedega-4.1.1_releasenotes.txt

I am not sure that this is the same problem that I am experiencing, though. If
this is the issue, then my card would be so "new" that Mohaa would not properly
detect it. If this is the case, why when I boot into windows with the same
hardware does the game run fine?

-Aaron

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--- Comment #8 from killertux   2007-09-21 22:46:07 ---
Here is sources how transgaming hacked MOHAA to work.
http://lists.transgaming.org/pipermail/winex-cvs-logs/2005-January/001691.ht...

In Windows it work at lest in nVidia because they have hack in their drivers to
workaround this problem... I read this from nVidia Windows driver release
notes(Linux drivers does not include this hack).

You can use DisabledExtensions reg key to disable all unneeded OpenGL
extensions however size is limited by Wine to less than 512 so you need to
modify one line in Wine source for workaround or use third partly application
for disabling the extensions.

If I remember correctly it will fail similar way as you said if extension
buffer in MOHAA overflows... so you NEED to check if it's this issue.

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--- Comment #9 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-09-22 18:00:33 ---
Wow. Thanks for that info, killertux. This would explain why the game works
fine in Windows. It would also explain why my older ATI card, with fewer
extensions, runs the game fine.

-Aaron

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--- Comment #10 from killertux   2007-09-23 07:03:21 ---
so now have you tried with disabled extensions? if it worked I could mark this
bug has WONTFIX or INVALID.

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killertux  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from killertux   2007-09-23 10:36:21 ---
Marked as INVALID since it's likely MOHAA bug... if it's not then please
reopen.

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--- Comment #12 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-09-23 19:04:45 ---
No, I haven't been able to try with disabled extensions since I don't know
enough about the inner workings of wine. Must I recompile wine to disable
extensions?

Thanks.

-Aaron

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--- Comment #13 from Steve Dawson   2007-09-27 18:43:41 ---
Created an attachment (id=8249)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=8249)
Disabled extensions registry key

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--- Comment #14 from Steve Dawson   2007-09-27 18:46:20 ---
With the following patch and the attached registry file the game runs fine.
(Although, the unrelated mouse problem persists)

diff -u -r a/wgl.c b/wgl.c
--- a/wgl.c     2007-09-26 20:01:30.879917605 -0400
+++ b/wgl.c     2007-09-26 18:26:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@

static HMODULE opengl32_handle;

-static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[512];
+static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[3072];
 static char* internal_gl_extensions = NULL;

typedef struct wine_glcontext {

The attached registry file was an attempt to reduce the GL extension list to
the minimum needed by the game to run. My system has an nVidia GS 7600 running
Xorg 7.0 with nvidia's binary driver. Version info below.

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7600 GS/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.11

[Bug 9725] Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

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--- Comment #15 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-10-01 00:51:04 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> With the following patch and the attached registry file the game runs fine.
> (Although, the unrelated mouse problem persists)
>
> diff -u -r a/wgl.c b/wgl.c
> --- a/wgl.c     2007-09-26 20:01:30.879917605 -0400
> +++ b/wgl.c     2007-09-26 18:26:34.000000000 -0400
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
>
> static HMODULE opengl32_handle;
>
> -static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[512];
> +static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[3072];
>  static char* internal_gl_extensions = NULL;
>
> typedef struct wine_glcontext {
>
> The attached registry file was an attempt to reduce the GL extension list to
> the minimum needed by the game to run. My system has an nVidia GS 7600 running
> Xorg 7.0 with nvidia's binary driver. Version info below.
>
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7600 GS/AGP/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.11

Wow, nice one! Chalk one up for the Wine devs! 
Thanks guys.

-Aaron

[Bug 9725] Medal of Honor: Allied Assault fails to load with NVIDIA drivers

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--- Comment #16 from Aaron Sawyer   2007-10-01 18:00:57 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> With the following patch and the attached registry file the game runs fine.
> (Although, the unrelated mouse problem persists)
>
> diff -u -r a/wgl.c b/wgl.c
> --- a/wgl.c     2007-09-26 20:01:30.879917605 -0400
> +++ b/wgl.c     2007-09-26 18:26:34.000000000 -0400
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
>
> static HMODULE opengl32_handle;
>
> -static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[512];
> +static char  internal_gl_disabled_extensions[3072];
>  static char* internal_gl_extensions = NULL;
>
> typedef struct wine_glcontext {
>
> The attached registry file was an attempt to reduce the GL extension list to
> the minimum needed by the game to run. My system has an nVidia GS 7600 running
> Xorg 7.0 with nvidia's binary driver. Version info below.
>
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7600 GS/AGP/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.11

I am confirming that that was the problem. I followed what you said and the app
runs fine.

Thanks guys!

-Aaron

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Dan Kegel  changed:

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--- Comment #17 from Dan Kegel   2008-01-28 05:57:42 ---
Closing all RESOLVED INVALID older than four weeks.

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--- Comment #18 from joaopa   2008-02-22 13:43:45 ---
Is the Steve's patch correct?

Joaopa

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--- Comment #19 from Aaron Sawyer   2008-02-23 18:38:38 ---
Yes, Steve's patch works for me.

-Aaron

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--- Comment #20 from Calvin   2008-03-18 17:51:58 ---
Commnts 13 has a file and comment 14 has a patch.  I am new to wine and want to
run MOH but I have no idea what to do with the file or patch.  Could someone
explain to me how to apply the patch so that I can compile Wine and then what
to do the the .reg file.  Thanks in advance!!