What is the game using ddraw for? Is it just some intro videos perhaps? In that case does d3d9.deferSurfaceCreation = True do anything here?
Got the GOG version of the game today and I'm able to run it just fine on Wine Staging 9.14 (and X11), without any ddraw overrides or anything else - just by removing the dgvoodoo2 files. There aren't any graphical issues with it as far as I can tell, so I believe we can consider this a "closure candidate".
Nothing extracted yet.
Ballance just show a black screen when running with dxvk but not wined3d. The game ships with dgvoodoo2 on Steam and Gog but deleting that doesn't change anything.
@WinterSnowfall Says it is likely an issue with it using MFC.See comments belowNote that i had to manually install mfc42 with winetricks.
Game have a demo available https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Ballance#Availability
Software information
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000770/Ballance/
System information
Log files
steam-2000770.log
Apitrace file(s)
TBD