X11 wine window not visible: Jazz Jackrabbit 2

bgstack15 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:51:19 GMT

One of my applications, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, had a problem where the window would not be visible, but the game is running.

After testing with using a wine virtual desktop environment (failed) and a different wine context (worked), I realized the problem lies between wine and the game. I learned that by deleting the registry key the game uses to store its window state (full screen or windowed) was somehow invalid or incorrect.

HKLM\Software\Epic MegaGames\Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Special Edition

And anywhere else this Software path would be in the registry, such as HKCU. And then run the game, and you can view the game.

And a link to the JJ2 community: Jazz Jackrabbit Online - Jazz Jackrabbit News, Information and Downloads on Jazz Jackrabbit 1, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, and Jazz Jackrabbit Advance - Jazz2Online

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I had done a lot of searching for x11 make window visible. How you would do that is with xdotool:

$ xwininfo -root -children | grep -i mktrayicon
     0x1c00001 "mktrayicon": ("mktrayicon" "Mktrayicon")  10x10+10+10  +10+10

And then you can plug in the id force it to be visible.

$ xdotool windowmap 0x1c00001

But even after doing that with JJ2 did not make the game contents display.

Fix Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on Wine

bgstack15 — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:46:13 GMT

0009:err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 992 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7e572f2a esp 00240f50 stack 0x240000-0x241000-0x340000
0044:err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e5cb7a0 "freetype.c: freetype_cs" wait timed out in thread 0044, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
^C0045:fixme:console:CONSOLE_DefaultHandler Terminating process 8 on event 0

This issue was particularly difficult to nail down. At one point, I saw a stack trace (but failed to save the output) where some amd driver was the next-to-last in the stack, so I think this issue is related to my AMD Radeon card (nothing to write home about). The error tends to happen when loading a new level of the game. However, it is possible to trigger it within a level. Running the game with the "-Safe" flag to run in safe mode prevents the crashes entirely. I thought at first the freetype.c thing meant it was font- related, and that possibly I was missing an i686 package for a font. However, I had every i686 package for every x86_64 one, so it wasn't loading the wrong type. I also ensured I started wine with WINEARCH=win32. I eventually fixed the issue by changing the game settings for the audio! To prevent game crashes , you need to configure "Sound & Music Properties" and uncheck "Use DirectSound (faster)." If you leave that option checked, it will crash the game usually when loading levels.

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X11 wine window not visible: Jazz Jackrabbit 2

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Fix Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on Wine