wine users - Mar 2008 - Re: wine don't handle hard coded resolutions & refresh rates

Nate Homier wrote:
>  Silent Hunter 3 uses a
> hard coded resolution and refresh rate of 1024x768x32bit at 50Hz.  But I
> have an 1680x1050x24bit at 60Hz monitor.

I once had a similar problem with Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2.  The game's
menu screen is hard coded for 800x600.  As I understand it, Wine uses the xrandr
extension to change resolutions.

Playing around with the xrandr command line tool, I found that randr was
reporting some resolution+refresh rate combinations that didn't work with my
monitor.  The trick is getting randr to either not report the modes that
don't work or to get it to report the ones that do work earlier in the list
of modes reported.

I don't know that randr+Wine necessarily respects an application's
requested refresh rate.  You just have to make randr return a mode that works
before one that doesn't.  At least that's what I remember concluding.

In the end (I don't remember all the details), I ended up adding a ModeLine
to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I hope something I wrote made sense and is of some use.

Jim wrote:
> As I understand it, Wine uses the xrandr extension to change resolutions. 
Or XVidMode if xrandr is disabled via registry. Or virtual desktop mode.


Jim wrote:
> In the end (I don't remember all the details), I ended up adding a
ModeLine to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Right no matter what you use (XRandr, XVidMode or virtual desktop) you still
have to have the required resolution(s) configured in xorg.conf
Wine does not nor will in the future scale picture. It's not a virtual
machine - it does not have such a low level control over things.