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I noticed a really strange bug when using anything related to Staging/GE/Proton etc. The interface, when starting a game, includes tabs on the journal pages that allow you to select bonus skills and other such things. In regular WINE, they work correctly, but in Staging/Lutris/WINE-GE etc. they're un-clickable. I've spent months trying to figure out why this is. Screengrabs don't catch the behavior, or I would have posted screenshots. I could try recording with OBS if it comes to that.
I'm also using the 1.1 patch that was originally provided on The Learning Company's website.
Yes, it's a minor thing, that's why it drives me nuts!
The disk is fine. I checked it by using cdrdao to create a 1:1 dump (which has always given me the best results backing up CD-ROMs of all types on Linux):
sudo cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile $*.bin --device /dev/sr0 --rspeed 4 --driver generic-mmc-raw $*.tocIt works even when dd or ddrescue fail.
using sha1sum returns
d6ddd53c5e49d9418e7a1c3553055b57e58f7d4aChecking redump.org returns the same value.
I'm truly flummoxed. Any version of WINE should work, not just vanilla.
Anyone else ever run into similar problems in other niche games?
I mean, there's a reason those patches are in staging and haven't been upstreamed yet.
It's usually not that hard to bisect between staging and vanilla to figure out what patchset causes a regression. I might have time to give it a try later if I can reproduce the issue.
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I would have bisected it myself, If I didn't have 8 years of patches to go through.
However I was thinking more along the lines of bisecting the patches in staging until the culprit is found and file a bug. There are tools included in staging to do this. It's still a bit of work and of course no guarantee it will be fixed!
I actually tried the game and I think I found the tabs you described. But I can't reproduce the bug with Proton 8. It works the same as in unpatched Wine. I did have some other issues with Proton. Undecorated windows, misplaced menus etc. I'm guessing those are caused by the full screen hack.
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The errors could be related to the fact that the game seems hard-coded to run at a specific resolution, regardless of what the specs say. It will resize a virtual desktop, even one in a resolution it claims to support, to 640x480. I suppose I never noticed that as a kid.