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Wine commands used in console

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Hello to all :) this is my first post here and i hope to explain my problem well in order to get a good solution. As the topic says i am interested in the commands that can be issued after using wine game.exe (e.g wine game.exe -opengl).

My problem is with counter strike and many other games as i discovered in time : after i run wine hl.exe an error appears on my screen : "out of range " . Is there a way to run the game with wine and to try to force the games to use 1024x768 in a "wine window" if full screen is not possible ?
Some software and hardware details : i am using wine version 1.1.7 , my GPU in Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS with the driver installed and my linux os is openSuse 11.0 .

I am sorry if my post is noobish but i`m new in using wine . Untill a week ago i only use and play linux native games . Hope that some one can make a list with the commands i can issue when using wine in a console :)
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:42 PM, creation <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello to all :) this is my first post here and i hope to explain my problem well in order to get a good solution. As the topic says i am interested in the commands that can be issued after using wine game.exe (e.g wine game.exe -opengl).

My problem is with counter strike and many other games as i discovered in time : after i run wine hl.exe an error appears on my screen : "out of range " . Is there a way to run the game with wine and to try to force the games to use 1024x768 in a "wine window" if full screen is not possible ?
Some software and hardware details : i am using wine version 1.1.7 , my GPU in Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS with the driver installed and my linux os is openSuse 11.0 .

I am sorry if my post is noobish but i`m new in using wine . Untill a week ago i only use and play linux native games . Hope that some one can make a list with the commands i can issue when using wine in a console :)





Those commands are game options, not wine's. You'll need to see if
Counter Strike can do that.

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Do you mean that for e.g wine game.exe -opengl is a game option :?:
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM, creation <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you mean that for e.g wine game.exe -opengl is a game option [Question]





Do you mean for:
$ wine game.exe
is '-opengl' a game option?

Then yes. A lot of apps support those types of options, '/option' is
also popular.

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Can u tell me what that command does when issued ? What advantages is offers ?
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:07 PM, creation <[email protected]> wrote:
Can u tell me what that command does when issued ? What advantages is offers ?
It depends on the game.

More likely than not, enables opengl rather than d3d rendering, but
that's not guaranteed.

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Post by creation »

Ok i understand. But beside the option opengl are there other options that i can try /use when running wine in a console ?
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, creation <[email protected]> wrote:
Ok i understand. But beside the option opengl are there other options that i can try /use when running wine in a console ?





Like I said, that option is a game option, not a wine option. The
question is, are there other game options that you can try...and that,
I don't know...Google probably does.

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creation wrote:Is there a way to run the game with wine and to try to force the games to use 1024x768 in a "wine window" if full screen is not possible ?
You can set that in winecfg; on the Graphics tab, check "Emulate a virtual desktop" and set the desired size.
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Yes dimesio i have discovered that option after looking thru winecfg and it seems to be a good way to avoid problems from games as i discovered in the wine userguide :)
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I hope this is not a double post but i have a issue : i just installed counter strike source and when i start the game the letters that appear in the console are very small . How can i fix that , can winecfg help me ? Does it help if i copy all the fonts from windows ?

And my second issue is with the patches : v1-v16 and version1.7 . It seems that they dont work , wine starts and after a few seconds the window vanishes .
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