Stronghold - Window Problem

[Paulus]

hi!

Stronghold was my first attempt to install a game via Wine. I used the instructions from david goldbaums tutorial and started stronghold under default wine settings. the consequence was a problem with the picture: on the edge at top of the screen, there was a shaky black stripe, interrupted by several stripes that showed my desktop - no chance to enjoy the game.

then I tried to start SH in a window (options found by typing "winecfg) / emulate a virtual screen:
The program runs perfectly!
Though, I want to play it Full Screen. I tried to change the resolutions and relations of the window to make it bigger, but it didn´t work.

Any ideas?

thx from Vienna,

Paulus

[doh123]

You can use OSX zoom feature to get the window bigger... other than that your out of luck with normal Wine doing that very easily.

In Wineskin I have a override->Fullscreen option that runs X11 at fullscreen, but Wine in a virtual desktop drawn right that it looks like normal fullscreen... how to go about that manually isn't easy at all.

[Paulus]

mhm.. thank You.. i will try the zoom-method.
actually, trying to make a window look full screen isn´t the noblest solution.

I mentioned the stripes, when I start the game in full screen under default settings.. do You know anything about it? Do You need a screenshot?


Thx,

Paulus

[doh123]

mhm.. thank You.. i will try the zoom-method.
actually, trying to make a window look full screen isn´t the noblest solution.

I mentioned the stripes, when I start the game in full screen under default settings.. do You know anything about it? Do You need a screenshot?


Thx,

Paulus

dont know anything specifically... but there are many many games that work in a virtual desktop that will not work otherwise... seems like even more on the Mac than on Linux.... this is why i have the work-a-round in Wineskin. You could do the same thing yourself... you'd need to manually start up XQuartz by its X11.bin so it starts up bare minimum with no quartz-wm (so no window decorations). Then everything should draw from the top left, so if you have an xterm window you can use xrandr to change to a resolution that matches whats drawing in the top left. its basically the same method I use in Wineskin. Its not really making a window look fullscreen... it actually looks normal fullscreen because there is no window decorations. You cannot visually tell a difference in it and a normal fullscreen.