Greetings,
I maintain several ddraw apps in the Application Database. While most of the problems introduced by Wine 0.9.16 have been fixed, some still remain.
Command & Conquer and C&C: Red Alert When exiting the game, a messagebox displays: 'Unregonized Direct Draw result code: 1' A demo of Red Alert is available here: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=4026 These two games, along with 'Warlords IIII: Darklords Rising' also have a strange SMP problem. In earlier Wine versions, these games would stop redrawing at some point. This also happens in Wine 0.9.16, but sometimes an error message is displayed instead, and then Wine receives a page fault.
Emperor: Battle for Dune This game requires native d3drm.dll, which does not work anymore. Problems with this file was mentioned on this list a few days ago.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV This game now displays a File menu when run in full-screen, which it is only supposed to do when run in a window. If I change the game's resolution, the menu disappears, but if I change it back to the resolution it had when it was started, the File menu is displayed again. Because of this menu, the game window is moved downwards, so the bottom part of the game is not displayed.
Warcraft II Battle.net Edition The title screen is no longer displayed; it shows a black screen instead. This also happens with some of the campaign intro screens. The rest of the game seems to work as before.
The new ddraw code fixes redrawing problems in at least a dozen games, and makes some of them faster, so it was a very good thing! :)
Regards,
Alexander N. Sørnes