Regedit problems-Guild Wars

unused_bagels · Post by **unused_bagels** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:06 pm

I'm trying to configure guild wars to work, and that "Oh it works perfectly!" thing is really making me mad. I've been trying for a very long time now (off and on for a year), and I finally stumbled upon this:

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If you are having graphics issues, use regedit to try some registry keys:

    * UseGLSL=disabled
    * DirectDrawRenderer=opengl
    * OffscreenRenderingMode=pbuffer or fbo
    * RenderTargetLockMode=auto

now, where the heck are these registry keys? I've scoured my registry for them, and can't seem to find them in hkley current user software wine, or wherever they're supposed to be.
using wine 1.1.13

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:19 pm

unused_bagels wrote:now, where the heck are these registry keys?

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Make sure to read the top of that page.

unused_bagels · Post by **unused_bagels** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:23 pm

Ok, I failed to notice that if it doesn't exist, create it thing, but wow, I'm overwhelmed at the idea of creating registry values. Is there a tutorial?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:59 pm

unused_bagels wrote:Is there a tutorial?

Right-click -> New->String Value....

What you never created directories with explorer before? And don't afraid to break registry in Wine. "Reinstalling" Wine is much faster (you actually don't even need to reinstall it).

unused_bagels · Post by **unused_bagels** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:49 am

haha, no, I never made my own registry values. I spent too many weeks picking up the pieces of my shattered OS when I tried doing anything with my registry back in my windows days.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:49 pm

unused_bagels wrote:

haha, no, I never made my own registry values. I spent too many weeks picking up the pieces of my shattered OS when I tried doing anything with my registry back in my windows days.

As Vitamin stated it is easy to restore your registry:

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cd $HOME/.wine
ls
(notice there are two .reg files)
cp system.reg system.old.reg
cp user.reg user.old.reg
wine regedit
(makes changes to registry and SAVES them)

It is that simple. If you break the registry:

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rm system.reg
rm user.reg
cp system.old.reg system.reg
cp user.old.reg user.reg

All changes are now gone and you should be able to run Wine again.

James McKenzie

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:58 pm

James McKenzie wrote:
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rm system.reg
rm user.reg
cp system.old.reg system.reg
cp user.old.reg user.reg
All changes are now gone and you should be able to run Wine again.

Just make sure wineserver is not running, or it will overwrite these files. Same when saving them.

Kaldyr · Post by **Kaldyr** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:17 am

Why not try using some software to work with the registry?
I'm not that good in this subject but there are some nice programs, as far as I am concerned!

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:24 am

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Kaldyr <[email protected]> wrote:

Why not try using some software to work with the registry?
I'm not that good in this subject but there are some nice programs, as far as I am concerned!

Like...regedit?

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-Austin

unused_bagels · Post by **unused_bagels** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:40 am

lol yeah regedit worked fine for me