wine users - Jun 2010 - problem with eve-online and color depth (16/24bit)

Hello together!

since some time i noticed that if i start eveonline in a explorer desktop
window, with for ex. wine explorer /desktop=0,1680x1050 "C:\\Program
Files\\CCP\\EVE\\eve.exe",
my problem is now -> i can not switch in the game eveonline client to the
16bit windowmode (only 24bit are available) ! My Linux Gnome Desktop are running
in a 1680x1050 24bpp mode. But if i start the game in fullscreen, i can switch
then into 16bit and any resolution. (its weird)

i dont now since when this happend, because i updated the nvidia driver and the
wine version at the same time. :( i dont know if the nvidia driver or the wine
package are responsible for this.  [Question]

It is possible to get this resolution or color depth back with some hack?
did somebody else notice that, or maybe have the same problem?
i need the resolution and color change to get more performance and to run more
then one eveonline client.

my system:
suse x64 11.2
wine 1.2-rc5
nvidia 8600 gt
gnome as xserver with resolution 1680x1050 and 24bit

thanking you in anticipation,
lightmans

You could try starting a separate X session with 16 bit depth for wine alone. To
do this on Debian I use the following command:

xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 -ac -depth 16

That should start another X session (probably accessible by CTRL+ALT+F8) with 16
bit color depth. Just go there and run your game from started xterm (if you
don't have xterm on your system - just replace "/usr/bin/xterm"
with path to your favorite terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal/gnome-terminal
etc.).

I don't know if the above command will work on Suse, but give it a try.