On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 02:24:38PM -0200, Bruno Jesus wrote:
No, manually setting compatibility is not required in XP (that is why IMO its is a shim, more below). Just the game installer needs compatibility or it complains about unsupported OS.
I could not find any way to disable SuspendThread, I tried it back in [1] but got no replies, internet also did not help me at this subject.
[1] https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2015-November/110308.html
To prove my point at [2] (source at [3]) there is a winmm_crosstest that calls SuspendThread inside the callback. If you run this at Windows >= XP it will get stuck. If you turn compatibility mode on it will pass as if nothing was called (tested on XP and 8).
[2] http://alexa.pro.br/~bruno/wine/winmm_crosstest.exe [3] http://alexa.pro.br/~bruno/wine/winmm.txt
If the game works without compat mode, but your test doesn't, then there must be something else going on here. I wish we understood better why it works.
Andrew