[Bug 36506] Wolfenstein - The New Order fails to start (glGetString(GL_VENDOR) without a current WGL context)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36506

--- Comment #11 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello Eike,

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and in fact, returning anything else could also send calling code down a bad
path
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you patch might indeed turn to wrong code paths for non-nvidia.
There is code following the call that specifically checks for certain vendors.

It's better to return nothing, just avoiding the crash.
This worked a long time ago for multiple broken apps until Alexandre removed it
(by accident I think).

The game engine already got the graphics adapter/specs before this point (see
log files and +debugstr channel).

The problem is that many people mindlessly pick up patches floating around and
build their own Wine versions/wrappers without understanding what it is about
and possible side-effects.
Then new bug reports appear in Bugzilla where one wastes time just to figure
out they've applied some "custom" patches/hacks, making the report invalid.

Regards

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