[Bug 33632] Wine changes video mode to one with "panning" (probably on Nvidia cards only)

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33632

--- Comment #11 from hibbsncc1701 at yahoo.com 2013-09-15 18:25:42 CDT ---
This issue happens to me regardless of the Desktop Manager in use. So far I
have also confirmed it on KDE 4 and xfce. So it's not just a GNOME issue. 

As for nvidia, wine would be practicaly useless for most users (read: home
users) with nvidia cards without nvidia's binary driver. 

This bug makes it difficult to use any app / game / etc. that uses fullscreen
mode. As it messes up the screen resolution, in some cases makes using the app
/ game / etc. unusable. (In my example Ys 1 will not render correctly if a
section it's rendering to was offscreen at startup. Panning to it leaves a
black screen as the game refuses to update that section.)

Another problem is that wine won't restore the original resolution in some
instances. Requiring the user to manually reset it. (Which they may not be able
to due to the low resolution without resetting X.)

Expecting users to manually set and restore the resolution for each program is
not reasonable. That expectation is not present in windows nor is present in
native applications. Therefore it should not be present in wine ether.

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