Running Wine in Window Mode

mruschmann · Post by **mruschmann** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:02 pm

I seem to be able to run a video game in 1024x867 (what ever it is) as a window, by selecting the window mode button in the game. However, i can not run the game in window mode with a resolution set about 1024x867.

What is going on? I am assuming i am missing something in wine or the game that does not allow the video game to be run in any resolution greater than 1024x867 in window mode.

mruschmann · Post by **mruschmann** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:16 pm

I was wondering if the problem was in the xorg.conf file. Which i know nothing about. Btw, in windows you can run the application in any resolution in window mode

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:12 am

mruschmann wrote:

I seem to be able to run a video game in 1024x867 (what ever it is) as a window, by selecting the window mode button in the game. However, i can not run the game in window mode with a resolution set about 1024x867.

This is an unusual graphics mode. Are you sure you are not talking
aobut 1024x768 mode?

Check your Xorg.conf file for this mode. If it is not present, run
xrandr to see if your system supports it.

James McKenzie

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:36 am

mruschmann wrote:I seem to be able to run a video game in 1024x867 (what ever it is) as a window, by selecting the window mode button in the game. However, i can not run the game in window mode with a resolution set about 1024x867..

Why can't you run it in that mode? What happens? Game doesn't start? Crashes?
Post output of 'xrandr' command.

mruschmann · Post by **mruschmann** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:18 pm

1680x1050 50.0*
1600x1024 51.0
1440x900 52.0
1400x1050 53.0
1360x768 54.0 55.0
1280x1024 56.0 57.0
1280x960 58.0
1152x864 59.0 60.0 61.0 62.0
1024x768 63.0 64.0 65.0
960x600 66.0
960x540 67.0
896x672 68.0
840x525 69.0 70.0 71.0 72.0
832x624 73.0
800x600 74.0 75.0 76.0 77.0 78.0 79.0
800x512 80.0
720x450 81.0
680x384 82.0 83.0
640x512 84.0 85.0
640x480 86.0 87.0 88.0 89.0
576x432 90.0 91.0 92.0 93.0
512x384 94.0 95.0 96.0
416x312 97.0
400x300 98.0 99.0 100.0 101.0
320x240 102.0 103.0 104.0

The program run fine when i run the game as a window in 1024x768, but i cant go any larger than that. It makes me think that there is a problem with wine being able to generate a larger image than 1024x768.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:48 pm

mruschmann wrote:The program run fine when i run the game as a window in 1024x768, but i cant go any larger than that. It makes me think that there is a problem with wine being able to generate a larger image than 1024x768.

Have you set size of your video memory in registry? See "VideoMemorySize" on http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

mruschmann · Post by **mruschmann** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:09 pm

Thank you for the help, but it seems that it still does not work. I will mess around with xrandr, more reg settings, and ect more. I dont think it is going to be successful.