Comment 34 for bug 1415219

I would like to add that its of course also possible to build older versions of wine-staging, but I wouldn't recommend it. For wine-staging there are no stable releases, the patchset changes very frequently and even though 1.7.34 didn't have this issue yet, it might have all kind of other issues which have been fixed in the meantime.

Besides GPU decoding there were recently also a couple of other fixes related to Silverlight applications which heavily make use of network functions.

Wine cannot workaround every driver bug, this is also the answer we got when we talked to the other Wine developers. The correct solution is to update the graphic card drivers to a newer version, where the problem doesn't exist.

One workaround for those who want to continue using very old graphic drivers, you can disable GPU acceleration by running:

/usr/share/pipelight/scripts/configure-silverlight

Then type "disable" and afterwards "abort" (or use CTRL+C) to terminate the program. This should also fix it.