Icewind Dale 2 Hangs/Crashes at Title Screen

[kyle_wine]

Hi there,

I'm having some trouble with this specific game, and I have a feeling that it's more to do with my lack of knowledge with Linux/Wine given that the game apparently has a Platinum rating in the AppDB.

Anyway, some basic background. I'm running Mint 17 64-bit with Cinnamon. Wine 1.7.26. Icewind Dale 2 v2.0.0.11 from GOG. Here's some output that the wine wiki recommend I retrieve:

cat /etc/issue
Linux Mint 17 Qiana \n \l

lspci | grep -i vga
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7540D]

Using the proprietary 2:13.350.1 AMD drivers.

First of all, when I launch Icewind Dale 2 from either the Cinnamon Menu or via terminal, the game launches in 800x600 resolution (as it's configured to do), but the Mint taskbar is still visible along the bottom of the screen. I'm not sure why that would be - I'd expect the game to completely take control of the display at that point.

The worse problem, though, is that all of the game's intro movies will play just fine at full-speed (the Black Isle promo, the Nvidia promo, etc). However, as soon as the game transitions to the main title screen, everything locks up. Well, it doesn't totally lock up, but it seems to respond at a rate of something like a fraction of a frame per second. Makes the machine completely unusable and unresponsive. After 30 seconds or so like this, the screen goes blank, reinitializes, and Mint is there asking me to login again. Once I do, I'm back to the desktop, but any windows I previously had opened are now gone.

I'm pretty new to Linux and Wine, so I don't really know where to even begin troubleshooting this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. At this point I'm not even sure how to get any terminal output since I can't exit the game gracefully once it locks up like that.

Thanks!

[dimesio]

After 30 seconds or so like this, the screen goes blank, reinitializes, and Mint is there asking me to login again. Once I do, I'm back to the desktop, but any windows I previously had opened are now gone.

That means X11 crashed. Wine is a user-level process, and shouldn't be able to do that on a properly configured system, but it can expose bugs in the host system that can. Try reinstalling your graphics driver, and if your system is 64 bit, make sure you also have 32 bit OpenGL installed. If that doesn't help, you could try the open source driver for your card.

[kyle_wine]

After 30 seconds or so like this, the screen goes blank, reinitializes, and Mint is there asking me to login again. Once I do, I'm back to the desktop, but any windows I previously had opened are now gone.

That means X11 crashed. Wine is a user-level process, and shouldn't be able to do that on a properly configured system, but it can expose bugs in the host system that can. Try reinstalling your graphics driver, and if your system is 64 bit, make sure you also have 32 bit OpenGL installed. If that doesn't help, you could try the open source driver for your card.

Initially I was running the Catalyst package included with Mint. I decided to try the latest version from AMD's website, but encountered the same issue. When I tried the open-source driver, however, it ran successfully. The only problem with the open-source driver is the lack of Tear Free, which presents other problems.

That aside, though, thanks for pointing me in the direction of video drivers. I've got some other graphics hardware lying around, so I think I might try an Nvidia card and see if the experience is any different.