winecfg: Add tab for most Direct3D registry settings.

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 16:30:15 CST 2012


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 16:14, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 01:46 PM, Stephen Chao wrote:
>>
>> From my own experiences browsing most games' appdb page, everyone and
>> their
>> brother (including myself) tinkers with d3d registry options.
>
>
> That's exactly why those options where removed in the first place. To stop
> everyone from breaking their configuration, then report bogus bugs. Wine
> "official" stand on those type of settings;
> 1. Wine should detect all options automatically. And adjust them as needed
> (depending on a specific application and/or requested features)
> 2. If 1. doesn't work - file bug to have Wine fixed.
>
> PS. If you finding yourself needed to add all your custom settings back -
> save them as a .reg file. Then import it in one go using regedit.

See for example what happens if you disable GLSL:
ERR_(winediag)("The GLSL shader backend has been disabled. You get to
keep all the pieces if it breaks.\n");

-- 
-Austin



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