[Bug 38165] New: F.E.A.R 1 freezing in the menu (network related)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38165

            Bug ID: 38165
           Summary: F.E.A.R 1 freezing in the menu (network related)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.37
          Hardware: x86
               URL: http://www.gamershell.com/download_10167.shtml
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winsock
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: gyebro69 at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 50913
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This bug is present in the Steam, GOG as well as in the single-player demo
versions. As far as I remember there was no such problem with FEAR 1 before May
2014 when the Gamespy servers were shut down. It's not a regression in Wine.

To reproduce the problem install then start the single-player demo. The intro
movies should play properly. When you get to the main menu and move the mouse
pointer over a menu item, the game hangs up.

If I disable network connections in Linux so only the loopback device is
present, then the problem doesn't occur.
The problem doesn't exist if I use native ws2_32.dll + ws2help.dll (copied from
a Windows Xp running in a VM).

I started wireshark and noticed that 2 DNS queries were made:
fearsp.available.gamespy.com and motd.gamespy.com

Maybe the response from these servers (or the lack of response since they were
shut down in 2014) doesn't make Wine happy thus it's freezing (?)

Note: the issue often leads to a situation where the player profile gets
corrupted and you receive a crash on start, involving gamedatabase.dll in the
backtrace. If this occurs remove Profile000.gdb from
'drive_c/users/Public/Documents/Monolith Productions/FEARSPDemo/Profiles'
directory.

Fedora 21 x86
wine-1.7.37-143-g3b2cf06

fear_spdemo_en.exe
md5sum: 300b1ea76b7c840f05408e92ea896ee1

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