http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5260
Summary: Black Screen on Great Battles - Hanibal Product: Wine Version: 0.9.13. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: gobnat@optusnet.com.au
I recently acquired a copy of the (somewhat old) game Great Battles - Hannibal.
I loaded the game into SuSE 9.1 using the default wine shipped with SuSE 9.1 (2004- <something something>). The game ran and displayed graphics faithfully (well, at least as far as I could tell - see below)
The game requires the CD to be in the drive, and I had trouble configuring that wine version to properly mount and identify the CD, so all I could get was the intro screen and the network client. These displayed properly.
So I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of wine. That fixed my CD Rom configuration issues, but now all the screens are (not quite but almost) entirely black. I have tried this with SuSE 9.1 (where a very dim outline is faintly visible against the black - (enough to find the quit button)) and FC5 (where the screen is entirely black - can't even find the quit button!) and have received the same results.
So, the problem has been introduced somewhere between 2004 and now. I can't find where old wine versions are, otherwise I would try them. GB-H installs/uses DirectX 5.
I saw there was a patch for a similar problem listed for Diablo. I tried to apply it but it doesn't seem to have made any difference.
Brendan