wine users - Jul 2007 - zooming wine windows?

Hi,

I have the following issue, and I wonder if Wine support such a feature.

I have a game (Fallout 1), that natively runs in full screen, at a
resolution of 640x480. The game itself does not support other resolutions.

I have the option to run the game fullscreen with wine - which works
fine. But this is not what I want to do.

I can run the game in a window (using the virtual desktop feature of
wine). This window will be 640x480 in size, no matter what I specify
with winecfg, as the game resizes the window when it starts.

What I'd like to do is to see the same content, but in a bigger window.
Say instead of 640x480, in a double-size window of 1280x960. For every
pixel have in fact 2x2 pixels. The game would still think it's doing
640x480, but I would see the same think in twice the size.

The reason I'm looking for such a solution, is that I'd like to run the
game in a window (beside my other applications), but 640x480 is just too
small on my 1920x1200 native resolution screen to be enjoyable.

I wonder if there's such a feature in wine, or if there will be..


Akos

Resizing of pixels is the problem of your video card or monitor and 
completely unrelated to WINE.
	What I do when I want good and smooth picture in such cases: I use full 
screen mode with stretching and even 640x480 looks very nice on my main 
display with native resolution 1680x1050 (this is the default for most TFT 
monitors and done automatically).
	If I want to use both the application (or game) with low resolution and other 
programs simultaneously on one display (very rare actually because I have two 
monitors) then I do one of the following: I'm using Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Plus or 
Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Minus to switch to the resolution I like to get necessary 
magnification; it is also possible to use settings of the KDE (and maybe 
GNOME) desktop to switch real desktop resolution.
	If you have ancient CRT monitor then low resolutions will look very bad on 
it. Solution for this problem is to set proper settings in the xorg.conf so 
your video card will give double resolution for very low video modes for your 
monitor so for example 640x480 will be as good as 1280x960. Of course this 
isn't necessary for modern TFT displays because they can do much better 
smooth stretching.

On Wednesday July 11 2007 09:06, ?kos Mar?y wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following issue, and I wonder if Wine support such a feature.
>
> I have a game (Fallout 1), that natively runs in full screen, at a
> resolution of 640x480. The game itself does not support other resolutions.
>
> I have the option to run the game fullscreen with wine - which works
> fine. But this is not what I want to do.
>
> I can run the game in a window (using the virtual desktop feature of
> wine). This window will be 640x480 in size, no matter what I specify
> with winecfg, as the game resizes the window when it starts.
>
> What I'd like to do is to see the same content, but in a bigger window.
> Say instead of 640x480, in a double-size window of 1280x960. For every
> pixel have in fact 2x2 pixels. The game would still think it's doing
> 640x480, but I would see the same think in twice the size.
>
> The reason I'm looking for such a solution, is that I'd like to run
the
> game in a window (beside my other applications), but 640x480 is just too
> small on my 1920x1200 native resolution screen to be enjoyable.
>
> I wonder if there's such a feature in wine, or if there will be..
>
>
> Akos
>
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