[Bug 23386] New: TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

Summary: TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with
                    -dxlevel 9
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.2-rc4
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

If I start TF2 with the option -dxlevel 9, the splash screen renders, and then
the game closes and an error message that says something like "Your graphics
hardware must support pixel shader 1.1 to play this game!" occurs.

It works completely fine with -dxlevel 81.

I've had this error for years, but I've been hearing more and more people talk
about playing with dxlevel 9 recently, claiming it runs great or even better
than dxlevel 81.

I have tried a new prefix, a new Steam directory, running inside and outside my
32-bit chroot, and none of these things have changed anything.

I am running ArchLinux with kernel 2.6.34, nvidia 256.35, GeForce GTX 285, but
as I said, I've had this trouble for years, even when using different nvidia
cards (previously had a 7900GTO). Through all the WINE updates, everything,
this has stayed constant. I'm currently running a version from git compiled
yesterday.

I'll attach a couple of snippets from a Steam run for your examination. Thanks
for looking, and thanks to everyone in IRC who helped, especially kevlarman.

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

--- Comment #1 from Jeff Cook   2010-06-26 01:27:16 ---
Created an attachment (id=29146)
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glxinfo-like output from start of Steam with WINEDEBUG=+wgl

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

--- Comment #2 from Jeff Cook   2010-06-26 01:28:57 ---
Created an attachment (id=29147)
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A briefish snippet of console output with WINEDEBUG=+wgl

This is a snippet that occurs when TF2 is launched from WINE with the -dxlevel
9 parameter added. This is not the whole thing because the thing was giant and
wouldn't fit in a pastebin, so just grabbed a section; these attachments are
pastebins from IRC. I can run again if the whole output or some other section
of the output is necessary.

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

--- Comment #3 from Jeff Cook   2010-07-04 17:05:41 ---
Created an attachment (id=29353)
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Full console output with WINEDEBUG=+d3d

Full console output, started with the line WINEDEBUG=+d3d wine
/mnt/tb/apps/Steam/Steam.exe -applaunch 440 -dxlevel 9. gzipped because I don't
have a stable host elsewhere to put this.

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

--- Comment #4 from Jeff Cook   2010-07-04 18:23:11 ---
Just tried on another computer and I get the same thing; -dxlevel 9 gives me
the pixel shader 1.1 error. :( Attaching a snippet from WINEDEBUG=+wgl.

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

--- Comment #5 from Jeff Cook   2010-07-04 18:24:05 ---
Created an attachment (id=29356)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29356)
WINEDEBUG=+wgl startup info on different computer, GeForce 6150 SE

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

Jeff Cook  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #6 from Jeff Cook   2010-07-09 14:05:47 ---
The main problem here is that apparently -dxlevel 9 is the WRONG parameter to
give Source games to indicate the dxlevel. It must be -dxlevel 90. When I do
that, everything works. If anyone comes across this bug with the same problem,
make sure you are passing -dxlevel 90 or -dxlevel 95, as these are the accepted
parameters for setting DirectX level in TF2. The game starts fine with one of
these parameters given.

That said, the game _does_ do something different with -dxlevel 9 because it
doesn't start up when I send that. Adding the outstanding remainder of the
"3DMark patch", which is setting MaxPointSize = 64.0f in directx.c gets around
the error on startup about the pixel shader, but the game continues to render
in DX8 mode anyway. I don't know what -dxlevel 9 is supposed to do, probably
just a leftover, but it breaks things and Valve should remove it.

I am closing this bug as invalid because -dxlevel 9 is an undocumented
parameter, nobody knows what it is supposed to do, and I don't feel like
testing this one on Windows to see if it gives the same behavior or not. If
someone else decides it's a real issue, please reopen.

[Bug 23386] TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
          Component|directx-d3d                 |-unknown

--- Comment #7 from Vitaliy Margolen   2010-07-09 14:38:10 ---
Closing invalid.