[Wine] Re: How does wine "detect" graphicscard-hardware

[blaiseg07]

PatricF wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To clarify, when I run World of Warcraft and go into Options to change the graphics settings I get this message on some options: "Unsupported for graphics related reasons".
> 
> So I was wondering if wine "detects" the graphics hardware and make some kind of registry entry with that information of some sort? Or how does that work?
> 
> Is it possible to change that information so that I can change those settings or maybe it's just that wine can't handle those settings?
> 
> I've actually manage to change the settings in the config file and it shows that I use one option on a setting that is greyd out and it works fine..
> 
> So is it possible to "trick" wine into thinking it can handle those settings somehow?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Patric


If you haven't created the Direct3D key in regedit it might be a good time to.
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys