[PATCH 2/5] winecfg: Bring back 32-bit Windows versions for 64-bit WINEPREFIXES

Rosanne DiMesio dimesio at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 12 09:38:30 CST 2015


On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:42:46 +0100
Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> - From a user point of view I agree with Ken. I have plenty of old games
> that refuse to run on anything but Win98 only because of a broken
> version check (e.g. Need for Speed 2, 3). They run just fine in a 64
> bit Wineprefix after I've used the 32 bit winecfg build to set
> winver=win98 via appdefault.
> 
> Otoh we can keep the "user 32 bit winecfg" solution as it is as a "use
> this at your own risk" fix.

I'm not totally against having "use at your own risk" settings be made accessible in winecfg, but if winecfg were to be changed back, those settings should come with an appropriate warning to the user, similar to the warning that pops up when a user tries to override a dll that is not recommended to be overridden. Without such a warning, users will expect the configuration to be supported. Do the developers really want to fix bugs caused by setting a 64 bit wineprefix to Windows 2.0?

The current setup is not causing any problems for users that I have seen. 



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