No longer starts on Wine 4.1

[lah7]

Error message:

(Virtual desktop)

The last line in Wine:

0009:fixme:d3d:wined3d_device_set_software_vertex_processing device 0x9a57250, software 0x1 stub!

Usually the game a few seconds after this point, but not with the latest Wine 4.1 build.

Interesting details from Sims 2 log:

Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.

Call stack:
0x0001:0x000477e1 C:\windows\system32\wined3d.dll wined3d_device_set_vs_consts_f() + 321
0x0001:0x00006575 C:\windows\system32\d3d9.dll d3d9_device_SetVertexShaderConstantF() + 245
0x0001:0x002b4e51 C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff\TSBin\Sims2EP9.exe GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 2779949
0x0001:0x00004ac0 C:\windows\system32\d3d9.dll d3d9_device_AddRef() + 0
0x0000:0x00000000 .

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For the most part, the game runs really well with Wine 4.0 and previous versions. I usually give the latest Wine releases (with patches) a spin for curiosity, but some D3D9 changes may have affected the patches or my hardware (NVIDIA drivers, Ubuntu 16.04).

[tannisroot]

The patch was partially upstreamed to staging. Now you should only need patch that adds undocumented shader interfaces and shader validator, and that works pretty well now.