[Bug 29144] skyrim freeze starting new game with ati/catalyst

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29144

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--- Comment #2 from christofi.cos at gmail.com 2011-11-27 13:43:54 CST ---
I can confirm that this bug exists. The game starts up fine, "New" can be
selected from the main menu without problem, then the dragon loading screen
appears and after a while the loading stops and the game just freezes.

My terminal output looks exactly the same as SteveK's. Once the game is frozen,
I can do Ctrl-C in the terminal to kill the process, but that gives the
following error:

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e1cb2a0 "x11drv_main.c:
X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 0037, blocked by 0009, retrying
(60 sec)

Looks like a couple of threads are in deadlock -- could that be the source of
the problem? People have reported the same error with other games, including
the original Half-Life: 

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14746

I am using an ATI HD 4600 with the latest Catalyst driver (11.11) with Wine
1.3.33, and I agree that this may be driver-related like the others are
suggesting. In fact, one of the people in the thread above said: "Possible
ATI/wine bug? I just recently switched from r600 mesa to fglrx 10.4. I did not
encounter this issue with the former."

I should also mention that I have experimented with limiting the number of
hardware threads used by the game to 1 (iNumHWThreads=1 in skyrim.ini), a fix
also necessary when playing Fallout 3 that uses the same engine. It made no
difference, though I'm not sure how seriously that parameter is taken by the
engine.

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