[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter and Art Studio don't launch ( 16-bit color mode error)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

--- Comment #3 from Alexandr Oleynikov <sashok.olen at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Paul Gofman from comment #2)
> I tried with HomeCrafter. It doesn't launch exactly the same way on Windows
> 7 until you really set display color depth to 16 bit. You have to do the
> same on Linux. I managed to do that with running a separate X server, like
> this (from console terminal, switched to that with Ctrl + Alt + F3):
> 
> xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :3 -ac -depth 16
> 
> You may also need 'export DISPLAY=:3' in that terminal.
> 
> Then the program starts just fine for me.
> 
> This environment might be of course set up to something more convenient than
> a bare X with a terminal (like running some window manager).

True, but I think it's very inconvenient, especially compared to Windows, which
has an executable parameter that allows to launch it in limited color mode. :(
Plus, I imagine that might not be possible to do on something like (x)Wayland
or macOS.

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