wine users - Mar 2007 - Swarm (win95 game) leaving fragments

Hi all,

installed the old space shooter Swarm and it is running fine pleased to
say except artefacts of lasers and rockets that have been fired staying on
screen for up to another 6 seconds.
This is as you can imagine a bit irritating as they move with and stay on
the screen.

Wine x.19. Have set the game to 'unmanaged' by the window manager as was
suggested here in another thread, but this did not help it.

Do I maybe have to edit the wine config file to force higher refresh rate,
or is there any other solution?

Thank you, Bernard

B.Hoffmann <spamfilter.list@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> installed the old space shooter Swarm and it is running fine pleased to
> say except artefacts of lasers and rockets that have been fired staying on
> screen for up to another 6 seconds.
> This is as you can imagine a bit irritating as they move with and stay on
> the screen.
> 
> Wine x.19. Have set the game to 'unmanaged' by the window manager
as was
> suggested here in another thread, but this did not help it.
What about "Emulate a virtual desktop"? Does this work? Does it give
better or worse graphics?

Daniel

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:45:47 +0000, Mantar, Feyelno nek dusa wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:58:22 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> installed the old space shooter Swarm and it is running fine pleased to
>> say except artefacts of lasers and rockets that have been fired staying
on
>> screen for up to another 6 seconds.
>> This is as you can imagine a bit irritating as they move with and stay
on
>> the screen.
> 
>  This is an old bug in (I assume) wine's pre-DirectX 8.0 code. It's
been
> around forever, and also affects my copy of Jeff Minter's
Gridrunner++..
> That game is completely unplayable, as the uncleared elements fill the
> screen quickly. I think I filed a bug for it years ago.
>  Hopefully it'll get fixed sometime soon, DirectX is undergoing some
major
> overhauling ATM.
Hi Mantar,

thanks for the explanation. It would be nice if this could get fixed,
although as time goes by I guess it will become less important and efforts
will go into making newer games run.
However with Wine progressing steadily towards 1.0 this bug should be gone
by then.

Thanks,
Bernhard

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:58:22 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> installed the old space shooter Swarm and it is running fine pleased to
> say except artefacts of lasers and rockets that have been fired staying on
> screen for up to another 6 seconds.
> This is as you can imagine a bit irritating as they move with and stay on
> the screen.
 This is an old bug in (I assume) wine's pre-DirectX 8.0 code. It's been
around forever, and also affects my copy of Jeff Minter's Gridrunner++..
That game is completely unplayable, as the uncleared elements fill the
screen quickly. I think I filed a bug for it years ago.
 That bug's not present in the cedega/winex fork, so you might try that.
Its support for old games is often poor, though. (GR++ stopped working in
one of the recent versions, but I haven't checked in a while.)
 Hopefully it'll get fixed sometime soon, DirectX is undergoing some major
overhauling ATM.

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