[Wine] Direction that wine is going

[James McKenzie]

On 2/7/11 10:06 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>> kanaida, you said you were a programmer. If you are saying you want to
>> get
>>> involved in improving Wine, there is a thorn in the side of 3D game
>> players
>>> you can start with. Wine seems not to recognise the actual amount of
>> video
>>> ram available. Wine passes 256 MB to the game, but the card has 1 GB. My
>> 3D
>>> works but is crippled.
>>>
>>> As far as I'm concerned that is a brick.
>>>
>> Isn't there a registry key for that so that you can tell wine how much
>> video ram to use?
>>
>> John
>>
>
>
> Yes, but it is for older shared RAM systems. Doesn't work with newer cards
> and motherboards that don't need or use shared RAM. Tried it, no go.
Jim:

The setting should work.  However, Wine is reporting only 256MB on cards 
that have 2GB to programs and that limits what they will allow for video 
settings.

James McKenzie