[Bug 51752] New: Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51752

Bug ID: 51752
           Summary: Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start
           Product: Wine
           Version: 6.17
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 70647
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=70647
terminal output from start until campaign start

I have the GOG version of Sacred Gold installed and once I start the Underworld
campaign the screen fading black - like if there was a cut scene - and never
comes back. The game still runs in background as noticeable by sound (foot
steps when moving, enemies...).

It has been years since I played Underworld on a Windows machine but if I
remember correctly the character also does not spawn at the Underworld starting
point but close to the in the Ancaria starting points - depending on chosen
class - before the screen fades black which is odd as well.

The Sacred Ancaria campaign itself plays perfectly fine. Finished it a couple
of times to unlock Niob difficulty.

This issue happens on both version 2.28 and 2.29.14 unofficial.
Tested on both Ubuntu Focal wine-development package (version 5.5.something
IIRC) and winehq-development 6.17.

I tried tinkering with the settings of both wine (tried Windows7 and XP mode
and fullscreen emulation) and of Sacred (turn fullscreen on/of, play videos and
so so) but did not change anything.

Not sure which information could be useful so I try to give as much as
possible.
I am running Linux Mint 20.2 Uma Cinnamon on mainline Linux (currently 5.14.y),
however I had this issue with Hirsute kernel (5.11.y) as well.
For graphics drivers I use oibaf/graphics-drivers/ PPA.
I run the latest linux-firmware by using the Ubuntu impish package which at the
moment is version 1.199.

My machine is a Levono Yoga 7 with AMD Ryzen 7 4800U processor.

I chose "blocker" as severity since not being able to play a whole campaign at
all is kind a severe I guess.

Thank your for reading.

Cheers
Werner

[Bug 51752] Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start

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Werner  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Werner  ---
After some more testing I found out that it works nicely in playonlinux so
either they have some special settings for this game to work or there is a
regression in wine version >4.0.4 which is used there.

I used it to create myself a savegame immediately after the initial Underworld
sequence has completed, copied it over to my wine installation, loaded and
works fine.

[Bug 51752] Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start

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Fabian Maurer  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Fabian Maurer  ---
> I chose "blocker" as severity since not being able to play a whole campaign at all is kind a severe I guess.

Please read https://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html:
> blocker	Blocks development and/or testing work
> critical	Critical problem that prevents all applications from working
> major		Major loss of functionality for a wide range of applications
> normal	For an application crash or loss of functionality

Not a blocker.

You could try switching wine versions in PlayOnLinux until you find out which
version is the last one that works.

[Bug 51752] Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start

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Werner  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from Werner  ---
Ahaa. Sorry I must have missed the fields description. Thanks for adjusting
properly.

Thanks for the hint. This was kind of the key to this mystery.
The first version I tried was 6.17 and it worked.  This made me think why it
should work within playonlinux and not wine directly. So I simply copied the
whole game folder to wine directory and tried again. And it worked.

Therefore I assume the reason for this odd behaviour was some game file
corruption. No idea where this could have came from though.

There are still more weird things in Underworld (like all quests NPCs want to
sell me a horse) but that is not related to wine.

At the bottom line sorry for the noise and have a great day. I will close this
one as invalid.

[Bug 51752] Sacred Underworld. Black screen after campaign start

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André H.  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from André H.  ---
closing invalid