wine users - Jun 2010 - WoW hardware cursor hack, Eve virtual desktops & CSS voice.

Wine 1.2-rc2

Ubuntu 9.10

I'm following instructins on tweaking World of Warcraft and wondering if a
hardware cursor hack referenced under 'Step 2: Configuring' at
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17421 would
have any adverse effects on other games?

Would I need to edit it to account for the fact I already have Wine 1.2-rc2
installed from the Wine repo? If so where? I'd rather not have two versions
of Wine installed if I can avoid it as I still consider myself not too much more
than a novice to linux.

It was suggested to make Eve Online run better and not crash when
alt-tabbing-out to configure it alone to run with Wine emulating a virtual
desktop, allowing directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window, and
allowing the window manager to decorate the windows and control them. Should I
do this for all games?

In CS:S even though when I test my mic in the options it plays back fine, online
people can hear my voice but they report the quality is very, very poor and
it's hard to make out what it is I'm saying. I've tried ALSA, OSS
and JACK so far. Pulseaudio is completely removed from my system. Is there
anything I can do, and could it just be the mic?

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 15:53, laeg <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Wine 1.2-rc2
>
> Ubuntu 9.10
>
> I'm following instructins on tweaking World of Warcraft and wondering
if a hardware cursor hack referenced under 'Step 2: Configuring' at
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17421 would
have any adverse effects on other games?
>
> Would I need to edit it to account for the fact I already have Wine 1.2-rc2
installed from the Wine repo? If so where? I'd rather not have two versions
of Wine installed if I can avoid it as I still consider myself not too much more
than a novice to linux.
>
> It was suggested to make Eve Online run better and not crash when
alt-tabbing-out to configure it alone to run with Wine emulating a virtual
desktop, allowing directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window, and
allowing the window manager to decorate the windows and control them. Should I
do this for all games?
>
> In CS:S even though when I test my mic in the options it plays back fine,
online people can hear my voice but they report the quality is very, very poor
and it's hard to make out what it is I'm saying. I've tried ALSA,
OSS and JACK so far. Pulseaudio is completely removed from my system. Is there
anything I can do, and could it just be the mic?
Well, it might not be feasible, but you might want to upgrade to
ubuntu Lucid (10.04) just to get more recent video/audio drivers.
Also, disabling desktop effects before playing can help reduce a # of
perf problems.

laeg <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote at Jun 8, 2010 9:53
AM
>
>Wine 1.2-rc2
This is great.
>
>Ubuntu 9.10
This is acceptable.  I would NOT recommend moving to Lucid.  This has created
problems with sound in games (see Esound issues in this forum.)  It appears that
Lucid LOVES pulseaudio and getting this to work in Wine is a real
bother.
>
>I'm following instructins on tweaking World of Warcraft and wondering if
a hardware
>cursor hack referenced under 'Step 2: Configuring' at
>http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17421 would
have any
>adverse effects on other games?
This might be why it is not in the base Wine code.  A 'hack' to make
something work in one program may and probably will break other
programs.
>
>Would I need to edit it to account for the fact I already have Wine 1.2-rc2
installed
>from the Wine repo? If so where? I'd rather not have two versions of
Wine installed if
>I can avoid it as I still consider myself not too much more than a novice to
linux.
>
Don't know, but patches created for one version of Wine may not apply to
others.
>It was suggested to make Eve Online run better and not crash when
alt-tabbing-out to
>configure it alone to run with Wine emulating a virtual desktop, allowing
directx apps
>to stop the mouse leaving their window, and allowing the window manager to
decorate the
>windows and control them. Should I do this for all games?
There is a problem with not allowing the mouse to leave the window when you are
using virtual desktops.  This is that the mouse's actions are trapped to the
size of that window when you are not in it.  This is a major reason that the
mouse fix has not been accepted in many forms.  It would be great if a fix could
be found that only applies to the current Wine session that releases when
switching to a different application (say you suspend the game (pause it) and
switch to respond to a mail message and then switch back to the game, the mouse
should have full range of the screen at this time.)
>
>In CS:S even though when I test my mic in the options it plays back fine,
online people
>can hear my voice but they report the quality is very, very poor and
it's hard to make
>out what it is I'm saying. I've tried ALSA, OSS and JACK so far.
Pulseaudio is
>completely removed from my system. Is there anything I can do, and could it
just be the
>mic?
Could be any number of things, but I would suspect your Internet connection
first.  I have problems when I use a Wireless WAN connection, but when I'm
connected to the Internet via a wired connection the problem goes away.  Again,
switching to Lucid is not suggested because of your comment above on pulseaudio.

James McKenzie