[Bug 29168] Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, Blizzard games: Diablo III, StarCraft II, WoW, Overwatch, GO 1.4+ runtime)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168

Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #296 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #294)
> Hello folks,
> 
> obviously still present.
> Updating some fields:
> 
> * corrected link to Wine-Staging patchset
> * added more games affected by this to summary
> 
> Staging has some patch dependencies on
> https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/ntdll-
> User_Shared_Data/definition
> 
> * Depends: ntdll-Hide_Wine_Exports
> * Depends: ntdll-x86_64_ExceptionInformation
> 
> These are not needed for the apps/games listed here.

The dependencies are basically to make sure that all patches can be
applied/compiled at once, so sometimes patchsets have 'dependencies' that
aren't actually necessary.

> 
> I've tested/debugged with minimal patchsets from existing tickets and this
> one against vanilla Wine 3.4
> 
> I think the current maintainers of Wine-Staging, Alistair and Zebediah
> should talk with Alexandre about a feasible solution.
> A number of major games, especially from Blizzard require this feature to
> work.
> People will stick to Wine-Staging to be able to play their games with result
> that they run all their other stuff (apps) with Wine-Staging too.
> 

It would indeed be nice if someone could come up with a feasible solution to
this problem. I doubt that person will be me, however. Besides which there are
many other widely-used staging patches that will be much easier to upstream.

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