<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,</div><div>I'm looking at bug #9672 again in the The Sims.</div><div>The app crashes early on during initialisation in DirectDraw. The problem occurs after CreateSurface returns an error, since it would appear that the DDSURFACEDESC passed into the call is foobar.</div><div>This would lead me to conclude that something on the lead up to that call is precipitating that rogue call.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a legal Windows XP and I wish to trace the calls leading up to this point with real Windows/DirectX to compare with what is happening to Wine so that I can assess what is upsetting the application, since I can't see anything in the Wine trace prior to that that looks suspicious.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any experience with tracing apps in real Windows in the context of Wine development?
<br></div><div>Should I use a profiler or is there a simpler method?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph</div></div></body></html>