[Bug 25362] Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.0.x crashes (GL_EXTENSION string truncation/overflow bug, __GL_ExtensionStringVersion workaround)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25362

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Summary|Return to Castle            |Return to Castle
                   |Wolfenstein 1.0.x crashes   |Wolfenstein 1.0.x crashes
                   |(returned GL_EXTENSION >    |(GL_EXTENSION string
                   |4096 bytes, truncation code |truncation/overflow bug,
                   |buggy, corrupts stack)      |__GL_ExtensionStringVersion
                   |                            |workaround)

--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> 2011-06-18 15:19:12 CDT ---
Hello again,

I've learned from "kevlarman" on IRC #winehq there exist
"__GL_ExtensionStringVersion" environment variable that forces the nvidia
driver to limit the returned gl extension string.

Indeed, googling for nvidia documentation brings this up:

--- quote ---
Some applications, such as Quake 3, crash after querying the OpenGL extension
string

Some applications have bugs that are triggered when the extension string is
longer than a certain size. As more features are added to the driver, the
length of this string increases and can trigger these sorts of bugs.

You can limit the extensions listed in the OpenGL extension string to the ones
that appeared in a particular version of the driver by setting the
__GL_ExtensionStringVersion environment variable to a particular version
number. For example,

__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 quake3

will run Quake 3 with the extension string that appeared in the 177.* driver
series. Limiting the size of the extension string can work around this sort of
application bug.
--- quote ---

Run the game/demo as follows:

$ __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine ./WolfSPDemo.exe

to prevent the overflow.
Case closed ;-)

Regards

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