[Bug 8854] Hurrican hangs while tryiing to start game

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854

--- Comment #23 from Not That Stupid   2008-07-19 09:25:21 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> One thought I've had is that in early directx, it was an allowed practice to
> stop listening to the windows message loop and only poll directx messages. Thus
> all the old games that show up in windows as "Not responding" and ceases to
> work when you alt-tab out of them.
>
> That could perhaps cause this?

I have used Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, one of the programs apparently affected
by this bug.  The previously-mentioned symptoms (the game ceasing to work when
you 'alt-tab' out of them and the game appearing as 'Not responding' in the
Task Manager) occur when I use X-Wing Alliance on old Windows 95 and Windows 98
computers with DirectX 6.