Wine Black window issue

Question

I'm having issues with wine, It is a black window, sound works fine, this only happens on anything that is uses 3D/2D graphics.

I'm using a GMA 3100 graphics card, and have no clue why this is happening, It is rather annoying.

Answer 1

I recommend checking out winecfg.

From your terminal, run:

1. winecfg
2. Go to Applications tab
3. Check out the Windows Version dropdown. For example, when mine is set to Windows 7, I get black boxes and weird stuff. Changing it to Windows XP fixes the black areas.

I think at one point in my particular HeidiSQL issue, there was mention of intel driver issue, so I think it's worth mentioning that could you have a specific piece of hardware causing the issue. This would of course make it hard to reproduce, but as such, I think it's worth experimenting with the Windows Version options in winecfg to see if you can circumvent it.

There are some other graphics-related settings as well, not many but some. Good luck.

Source: https://www.heidisql.com/forum.PHP?t=22183

Answer 2

There might be the following issues present:

• You haven't installed the necessary drivers for your graphics card.

• You are trying to run a DX10 / DX11 application. Those aren't supported at the moment. (Though there are people who reached limited success with them.)

• You didn't install all the dll's needed by your application. You can use winetricks for that.