[Wine] Re: interline and vstretch

[dimesio]

David Griffith wrote:
> Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's
> Oddysee?  How does one turn off -vstretch?  For someone to fix this, where
> would one look in Wine's source code?
> 


These are game options, not Wine options, and appear designed to fix known display problems that exist in Windows as well. The game's readme says:


> USING THE ALTERNATE DISPLAY MODES
> 
> If the game runs too slowly on your machine, or if the movies
> are jerky, you may want to try the alternate display modes.
> 
> You must create a shortcut to run the AbeWin.exe program
> with the appropriate command line option.  First, locate
> the file AbeWin.exe (in the directory you installed to,
> probably C:\Program Files\Abe's Oddysee), and right click
> on the file.  Select "Create Shortcut", then find the
> Shortcut file created (called "Shortcut to Abe's Oddysee").
> Right click on this, then select Properties.  Choose the
> Shortcut tab, and edit the "Target" field, adding one of
> the following command line parameters to the end of the
> line (seperated from AbeWin.exe by a space) :
> 
> -interline       Every other line is blacked out. 
> -vstretch        Lines are doubled (this may not work
>                  on some display cards, if it doesn't,
>                  use INTRLINE).
> 


If I'm reading that correctly, if you didn't turn on -vstretch, there's nothing to turn off.