Antoine Le Gonidec schreef op vr 07-01-2022 om 17:04 [+0100]: > I think this is related to this upstream issue: > https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49649 — Multiple games cause > X11 to crash on resolution change (Age of Empires 1 & 2, Star Wars: > Galactic Battlegrounds) > > It is fixed on current 7.0 release candidate, and you can work around > it with older WINE builds by changing the Direct3D renderer as > described in this post: > https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49649#c6 (a .reg file > applying the suggested change is provided for convenience)
Thank you so much for this information: it certainly looks exactly like my problem! I tried changing the Direct3D renderer with "wine regedit". Initially, that registry value was not set on my system - I tested with absent value, with "gdi" and with "gl". These are the results: ===results TLDR=== The workaround works for Age of Empires II but not for Flight Simulator 2004, where it results in a different error. I think Flight Simulator uses Direct3D and Age of Empires doesn't, and the workaround disables Direct3D. ===results details=== With "gdi", the terminal window shows a line "0009:err:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Disabling 3D support.". Unlike before, Flight Simulator now shows its menu(*). However, when I press the button to start flying, it shows an error window with the text "Error creating required Direct3D buffers - Flight Simulator will now exit.", and the game exits. With "gdi", Age of Empires II shows the same line on the terminal, but it works fine. I guess it helps that AoE isn't really a 3D game. With "gl", the terminal window shows a line "0009:err:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Using the OpenGL renderer.". While this line was not present with absent registry key, the behavior is the same: AoE and Flight Simulator crash, as in my original bug report. ===results end=== I suppose the good news is that we know how Wine 7 is patched to fix the issue - maybe Wine 5 can be patched in a similar way. I'd have to look into how to compile Debian's Wine package from source though, and I hope it won't take too long compiling. (*) For people trying to reproduce this: in my case, it starts with a menu page that does not show any 3D elements (the "select flight" menu). I can imagine it still crashes if on your system it starts with the "create flight" menu, which does contain 3D elements.
