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Performance Improvement

CrossOver 14.0.1 for Mac on Mac mini Late 2012. Windows 8 Bottle. ROTR 1.85
Bottle Settings>Performance Enhanced Graphics: ON

Run regedit and go to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>wine>Direct3D
(optional) you can dedicate settings only to this game by HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Wine>AppDefaults>generals.exe>Direct3D

add new String Value as follows:

AlwaysOffscreen "Enabled"
DirectDrawRenderer "opengl"
OffscreenRenderingMode "fbo"
RenderTargetLockMode "readdraw"
StrictDrawOrdering "Enabled"
useGLSL "Disabled"
VideoMemorySize "(your Mac's RAM size)"

*Please note the Direct3D strings must use the same upper capital i.e. "Enabled" NOT "enabled" or it won't work.

If you enable the use of "Use Legacy X Window System" in the bottle Settings, the in-game animated cursor will function normally. I wish the cursor works without X Window...
As this also trigger the X11 Driver, there are a few settings I found nice to have, especially for FinalBIG to change camera height.

Go to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Wine>X11 Driver and add String Value:

ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore "N"
ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender "N"
ClientSideGraphics "N"
ClientSideWithRender "Y"
GrabFullscreen "Y"
GrabPointer "N"
ShapeLayeredWindows "N"

Hope it helps!

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