wine windowed mode forgets the size

[Cookie]

Hi, thanks for your great work!

I have a little dedicated race server and host Grand Prix Legends (1998!) online races - via wine
It is a N3150 SOC Celeron 4cores with 8GB DDR3 RAM
OS is Linux mint 19.3 XFCE on a 250GB SSD
Wine 6 stable
This PC runs for ~4 years without problems with wine

Problem 1
Since ~ 1 year the loading of the tracks (~500MB) uses more and more time - e.g yesterdays big Targa Florio took ~8min!!! (W7 takes 25sec)

Problem 2
I run GPL with wine in windowed mode - so I can have monitoring and other tasks run on the same screen.
Since wine 6 stable it seems to forget the size of the wine window
when it gets back from the 640x480 "full screen" hosting to the management program iGOR wich then is sqeezed in the tiny window 640x480
All this worked flawless before wine 6!

Thanks

[jkfloris]

I think this is because GPL sets the resolution to 800x600 and not back to the original resolution. I see there are several mods for this game. Isn't there a mod where you can set the resolution of the game to 1100x700?

[Cookie]

Thanks for looking at this

It is even more complicated:
the GPL menu is hardcoded to 640x480 - so I do run GPL in "fullscreen" it runs 640x480 in the wine desktop
- problem is it does not switch back with Wine 6.0
I set the wine window to 1100x700 because else you can't see al the iGOR columns...
It worked well in previous 5.03 stable and it works in 6.01 devel... so I hope this bug is fixed soon

BUT
my problem # one is more important
Are there known wine problems with reading a linux filesystem (ext4)? as it takes ages to load a track file

[Cookie]

This happens only if you run wine 6 in a windowed wine desktop!

More troubles with sub-windows - if I open a setting and a window is opened it is squeezed and not to handle!

Is there an easy way to fall back to the well working wine stable 5.0.3 (without this buggy window management)?

[jkfloris]

Is there an easy way to fall back to the well working wine stable 5.0.3 (without this buggy window management)?

Code: Select all

sudo apt install winehq-stable=5.0.3~bionic wine-stable=5.0.3~bionic wine-stable-amd64=5.0.3~bionic wine-stable-i386:i386=5.0.3~bionic

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