I have Links 2003 running with dgvoodoo 2.7 under Windows 10 and 11, this is a golf sim. This is the dgvoodoo version known to work, I tried what was then the latest version about a month or so back and reflective water was not being displayed correctly (showing as solid light blue FWIW) so I have stayed with the version known to work for now.

My Question however is around using it on Linux with Wine.

I have two Linux systems, one, a desktop, is working with no problem the wrapper is working fine.

The other machine, a notebook, however gives me periodic problems. I have had it working with the wrapper on occasions, but at the moment, after various systems changes it is not, the problem has always been the same.

What happens is the software starts, but instead of seeing the opening screen I get a black screen with some lines in various places. I believe these lines are those that would be underneath the letter to use as the short cut for the menu item. The software is active as it plays the opening music and the short cut key for exit 'X' works, suggesting that the software is running as expected, and that it is a display issue.

The last time I got it working I completely removed Links and Wine and set it up from scratch, a fair bit of effort and not something I want to do every time there is an issue, not that it will even necessarily work, given I am none the wiser as to to cause.

Without dgvoodoo the software does work, but does have problems with video slowdown when using Nvidia or sometimes crashes when using Intel graphics, I did not see these problems when using dgvoodoo as another layer, hence why I am looking to use the solution.

The system is a Acer notebook with both onboard Nvidia 940mx and inbuilt Intel HD 620. I've used various Wine versions in the 9.x series, all seem fine on the desktop system, both systems are running Linux Mint 21.3.

I'm looking for ideas for what may be causing this, what I can try to see if I can resolve it.

Thanks