interline and vstretch

[David Griffith]

Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's
Oddysee? How does one turn off -vstretch? For someone to fix this, where
would one look in Wine's source code?

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[dimesio]

Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's
Oddysee? How does one turn off -vstretch? For someone to fix this, where
would one look in Wine's source code?

These are game options, not Wine options, and appear designed to fix known display problems that exist in Windows as well. The game's readme says:

USING THE ALTERNATE DISPLAY MODES

If the game runs too slowly on your machine, or if the movies
are jerky, you may want to try the alternate display modes.

You must create a shortcut to run the AbeWin.exe program
with the appropriate command line option. First, locate
the file AbeWin.exe (in the directory you installed to,
probably C:\Program Files\Abe's Oddysee), and right click
on the file. Select "Create Shortcut", then find the
Shortcut file created (called "Shortcut to Abe's Oddysee").
Right click on this, then select Properties. Choose the
Shortcut tab, and edit the "Target" field, adding one of
the following command line parameters to the end of the
line (seperated from AbeWin.exe by a space) :

-interline Every other line is blacked out.
-vstretch Lines are doubled (this may not work
on some display cards, if it doesn't,
use INTRLINE).

If I'm reading that correctly, if you didn't turn on -vstretch, there's nothing to turn off.

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, dimesio wrote:

David Griffith wrote:

Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's
Oddysee? How does one turn off -vstretch? For someone to fix this, where
would one look in Wine's source code?

These are game options, not Wine options, and appear designed to fix
known display problems that exist in Windows as well. The game's readme
says:

Okay, so any ideas on how to get Wine to not require those options? Any
ideas on why Wine gets bogged down on videos? Abe's Exodus doesn't have
these problems.


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[vitamin]

Okay, so any ideas on how to get Wine to not require those options? Any
ideas on why Wine gets bogged down on videos? Abe's Exodus doesn't have
these problems.

Sounds like slow ddraw to me. Try using opengl backend for it (DirectDrawRenderer=opengl http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys).

If that won't do it, then it's probably a ddraw & GDI. It is horribly slow in Wine because of lack of DIB engine.