[Bug 29261] DDR=opengl causes constant screen flickering in SimCity 3000 Demo in fullscreen mode

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29261

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--- Comment #29 from wine at baldskirkja.org ---
Bug is closed, but in case someone is researching the problem (like me) I
wanted to share that this is not a retina display. I have seen no rhyme nor
reason as to the success or failure. Both of my laptops (neither with retina
displays, they are old and older) give severe flickering unless attached to an
external monitor. My wife's laptop does not flicker. It works fine on my 5k
iMac (definitely retina display there) and on an older (non-retina) iMac.

The foregoing refers to a specific package of Diablo II - LOD made with bottler
and thus providing a standalone, repeatable and segregated method of testing.
The one fly in the ointment is that it is v1.12 and there are some reasonable
bug fixes in 1.13 so I decided to make a foray into v1.14b -- but because of
Blizzard's convoluted installation scheme I cannot get wine bottler to work.
However, it works just fine in Crossover. And I was able to use that to cobble
together a 1.14b bottle. Unfortunately, it is only flicker-free when first
executed and thereafter exhibits flickering (only tested on the older and the
5k iMac. I don't recall if I've gotten around to testing it on one of the
laptops.

In short, despite being a closed bug, this *is* an issue with either wine or
how it is configured (it works just fine with Crossover's wine, repeatedly, so
either a difference in the wine code, in how wine is configured/the bottle
created, or both). Apple hardware, drivers and retina displays are all
distractions.

(Addendum for the morbidly curious: As to why I don't just use the Blizzard
provided mac build? It hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds for any or no
reason, but playing the windows version via wine is nearly flawless. I just
want a stable, standalone package rather than being dependent on Crossover's
possibly changing behavior.)

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