[Bug 5272]=?UTF-8?Q?=20S=C3=B6eldner=20demo=20and=20g?= ame don't work (a .net application)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5272

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--- Comment #5 from Anastasius Focht   2007-11-22 12:13:12 ---
Hello,

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I don't see anything referring to .net when trying to start the demo. However
it ends immediately like: 
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to
dispatch exception.

That's all :(
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Yes, the game has nothing to do with .NET technology.
Maybe the initial reporter wanted to express "network based application" and
didn't know that the term ".net application" has a complete different meaning?
Summary should be changed to disambiguate.

Anyway that game uses a custom PE protector, the retail version additionally
includes SecuRom 5.x
Although the section names indicate "xprot" -> x-treme protector it doesn't
seem to resemble the "real" Xprot.
Thats a common technique to look like other copy protection by using same
section names and entry signatures.
Probably to scare crackers away ;-)
> From looking frankly at the trace, the protector seems to mess up the exception

registration head (teb->NtTib.ExceptionList, fs:[0]) while executing code in
its virtual machine.
It points to nowhere, hence the "err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not
in stack limits" error.
> From reading some game forums, it seems the protection caused many issues on

windows itself, early versions seemed pretty unstable (a mess).
The demos are a bit old and are not updated anymore, maybe the retail stuff
runs better with newer patches.

Regards