Heroes of Might & Magic 3 & Nvdia Driver with Wine 1.6

[Spuuk]

Recently i discovered a problem either with wine or nvidia driver :

When i start the game in fullscreen (Desktop Resolution is 1920X1200) , the screen resultion will get changed to 800X600 but somehwow the geometry is wrong , means i can hear the sound of the game see the mouse cursor, but dont see the picture of the game itself until i move the mouse to the top of the screen, then the picture of the game will scroll in.

Later in time playing the scren will again scroll out and i can move arounf the picture evrywhere on the screen, even if i kill wineserver, (resolution will not switched back) i can move my entire desktop screen as like a scrollbox.

This happens with the nvidia driver 310.14 and 310.17.

If i use a older nvidia driver (295.x) this problem does not appear.

When using the 310.x series of driver, and i the switch Desktop Resolution to 800X600 , start then heroes3, this problem does not appear, the game screen will be visible correct, and even later in the game the screen can not be scrolled.

So is there a problem in the nvidia driver or a problem in the wine screen resolution change ?

Attached a screenshot from the startup screen.

The black screen earea seen in the picture is the scrolled out aerea of the game, when poininting the mouse to the upper left corner, the game screen will scroll in.

[dimesio]

Sounds like this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33290.

310.x drivers are not the newest. Try a newer driver.

Does downgrading Wine fix the problem? If it does, please run a regression test.

[Spuuk]

Sounds like this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33290.

310.x drivers are not the newest. Try a newer driver.

Does downgrading Wine fix the problem? If it does, please run a regression test.

Downgrading is a race condition, somehow older wines ( 1.4.x 1.5.x until very short before 1.6) does not reconize the newer nvidia drivers, it complains about missing directx3 / opengl.

But newer wine alsow works with older nvidia driver, and as be written before, with the older nvidia driver it works.

Problem just is then that always newer versions of distros comming also with newer versions of nvidia driver which then leads to a not working game.

Yes , the bug you linked me to is exactly what happens but only with the newer nvdia driver.

I'll try to install today the newest beta driver and try it out again.