d3d8:device test timeout

[Henri Verbeet]

On 15 January 2018 at 05:30, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent some time today trying to figure out why the d3d8:device tests
> are timing out (it's the #1 bug on Jeremy's list [1]). The timeout
> occurs within test_lost_device, which changes the foreground window to
> the desktop, then changes it back to the controlling window of the D3D
> device. Usually that's not a problem, but this particular machine is
> so traumatized by the experience that it locks up when you try to
> reset or release the device afterwards.
>
Perhaps you've already tried this, but make sure test_lost_device()
causes the hang on its own as well. It's happened on occasion that a
preceding test caused the driver to e.g. corrupt its internal memory.