Wine+Java+Nvidia crashes

[Rick Jones]

I'm running a Java app built for Windows (therefore needs Wine), and on a 
machine with Nvidia graphics it crashes when it tries to draw the main 
window. The exact same application and OS configuration on a different 
machine with Intel graphics works fine.

It crashes in wined3d, although the application is only drawing plain 
windows and dialogs - it looks like Java awt always calls d3d9 which call 
wined3d :(.

Relevant console output from wine is shown below, plus the stack from the 
app's error log.

OS is Ubuntu 8.10, Wine ver. 1.1.16 on both machines. On the faiing machine 
the graphics is Nvidia GPU 5200 series, screen size 1280x1024. I have tried 
both with the accelerated Nvidia driver v.173, and with the standard Linux 
driver, it makes no difference.

The machine that works is an Asus Eee 901 netbook, Intel graphics on 
1024x600 screen. Both machines have 2GB RAM.

Wine console output:

fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support 
to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap (0x110000, 0x0) stub
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support 
to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support 
to SetDepthStencilSurface
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x7d9c25c2, pid=8, tid=37
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (11.2-b01 mixed mode, sharing 
windows-x86)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [wined3d.dll+0x725c2]

Stack trace:

Stack: [0x03890000,0x03990000],  sp=0x0398de48,  free space=1015k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native 
code)
C  [wined3d.dll+0x725c2]
C  [wined3d.dll+0xaf2a0]
C  [d3d9.dll+0x12957]
C  [awt.dll+0xad577]
C  [awt.dll+0x9c60c]
C  [user32.dll+0xb06aa]
C  [user32.dll+0xb0afa]
...

I've heard that wined3d and Nvidia don't play well together, but I don't 
know why this problem only shows up when running a Java app. Everything 
else I use works fine.

If anyone would like more info let me know.

[Stefan Dösinger]

It is next to impossible to tell what is going wrong here. I'm afraid someone 
will have to dig into the GL calls and try to reproduce the crash in a 
stand-alone app and report it to Nvidia. That can be a quite nasty task. You 
might be able to get your app running by disabling d3d9.dll(d3d9="" in 
winecfg).

WineD3D works pretty well with Nvidia cards in general. It's the non-nvidia 
drivers that make most troubles, the open source ones and to a smaller amount 
the ATI binary driver(getting better and better each release).

[Rick Jones]

--On Friday, March 13, 2009 23:24:56 +0100 StefanDösinger 
 wrote:

¦ It is next to impossible to tell what is going wrong here. I'm afraid 
someone
¦ will have to dig into the GL calls and try to reproduce the crash in a
¦ stand-alone app and report it to Nvidia. That can be a quite nasty task. 
You
¦ might be able to get your app running by disabling d3d9.dll(d3d9="" in
¦ winecfg).

Sometimes the simplest things can be the least obvious. I've just tried 
disabling d3d9 in Configure Wine and it works! I just hadn't thought of 
doing that - I guess I assumed that because it was calling d3d9 it needed 
it.

That'll do for now, the app isn't actually doing any 3D rendering. In fact 
I'll try the same on the netbook where it's already working, it might 
improve the screen response which isn't wonderful at the moment.

Thanks!

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 00:35:25 schrieb Rick Jones:
> Sometimes the simplest things can be the least obvious. I've just tried
> disabling d3d9 in Configure Wine and it works! I just hadn't thought of
> doing that - I guess I assumed that because it was calling d3d9 it needed
> it.

I guess Java initializes d3d just in case the app needs it for some features. 
Its like Wine using OpenGL. It will always check if it is available. If it 
isn't, Wine will go on. If the Windows app needs D3D or GL however, bang. 
Something similar is likely going on here.

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/14 Rick Jones :
> I'm running a Java app built for Windows (therefore needs Wine), and on a
> machine with Nvidia graphics it crashes when it tries to draw the main
> window. The exact same application and OS configuration on a different
> machine with Intel graphics works fine.

OS-specific Java programming is disgusting. Get the developer to
produce a non-Windows-specific version. :)