"Cannot Display This Video Mode"

[stephen]

I have Ubuntu 8.10 and I downloaded Wine and installed it. Everything seems to work (installation works), but when I try to run the game that I installed, I hear the sound, but I don't see video, and instead I see a blank screen with big white text in the center that says "Cannot Display This Video Mode"

Does anybody know what this is? How do I fix this?

[Alexander Nicolaysen S...]

Torsdag 01 januar 2009 23:46:56 skrev stephen:

I have Ubuntu 8.10 and I downloaded Wine and installed it. Everything seems
to work (installation works), but when I try to run the game that I
installed, I hear the sound, but I don't see video, and instead I see a
blank screen with big white text in the center that says "Cannot Display
This Video Mode"

Does anybody know what this is? How do I fix this?

Does this message come from the game itself or your monitor? Try running
'winecfg' and enable a virtual desktop.



Alexander N. Sørnes

[stephen]

Running the game in a virtual desktop fixed the problem, thank you.

[vitamin]

I see a blank screen with big white text in the center that says "Cannot Display This Video Mode"

This means your video card set resolution not supported by your monitor.

In most cases this means that Xorg is misconfigured and reports to Wine video modes (resolution + refresh rate) that are not supported by your monitor. Wine always chooses the best refresh rate for given resolution.

You need to fix your Xorg config, use virtual desktop mode or override refresh rate (might not always work):

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DirectDraw]
ForceRefreshRate=60

See http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys for details.