wine users - Jul 2010 - Is it possible to enable a register setting via command line

Hi.

God damn Wine has come a long way! Most games I have played seem faster than
real windows now...

I am wondering if there is a way to add a reg key/string on the command line -
so that the reg key/string doesn't exist all the time just whilst playing a
game / wine session?

The reason I ask is because some games work even faster with

DirectDrawRenderer = opengl in 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct 3d

But some don't .

Right now I manually add/remove the reg string when I play a certain game/app.


Is there a way to launch wine and enable the reg setting cia command line ?

p.s : Isn't the windows registery a complete joke (as an idea), you could
easily but wrong values that could mess up Windows - there is no verification at
all....

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 09:15 -0500, yossarianuk wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a way to add a reg key/string on the
> command line - so that the reg key/string doesn't exist all the time
> just whilst playing a game / wine session?
> 
> The reason I ask is because some games work even faster with
> 
> DirectDrawRenderer = opengl in 
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct 3d
> 
> But some don't .
> 
> Right now I manually add/remove the reg string when I play a certain
> game/app.
> 
You could also use a separate prefix for each game - the disk space
overheads aren't all that big. This way you can permanently add the
registry entry permanently for the programs that use it and not for
those it harms. As an added bonus you'll no longer run the risk of
screwing one game up while patching/upgrading another.

IMO with separate prefixes its easiest to use a wrapper script to run
each app/game. The script sets the correct prefix, changes to the
appropriate directory, runs the app and exist. You make the script
executable and have the app's menu entry run the script rather than
running the app directly - the latter assumes that all apps are in the
default .wine prefix..


Martin

yossarianuk wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a way to add a reg key/string on the command
line - so that the reg key/string doesn't exist all the time just whilst
playing a game / wine session?
> 
> Code:
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct 3d]
> DirectDrawRenderer = opengl
> 
> 
> 
There is, but you should add that for the app specific key instead of global.
Eg:

Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\game.exe\Direct 3d]
DirectDrawRenderer = opengl


Where 'game.exe' is the executable name of your game you want this
setting apply to.

vitamin wrote:
> 
> yossarianuk wrote:
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\MaxPayne2.exe\Direct3D
> 
> Wrong, you missing space between "Direct" and "3D".
Why do Wine registry keys need a space between Direct and 3D? The original
Direct3D from MS doesn't have this space, so is it a typo in the Wine code
to check the registry for a "Direct 3D"?