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Decided to play in windowed mode for a while.

Set WINE to use a Virtual Desktop, with the game itself in full-screen mode. (Using WINE in 'seamless' mode, with the game in Windowed, causes too many problems)

The only screen sizes available are traditional VGA 4:3 proportions. The widescreen proportions are no longer listed.

Hmm... found a work-around (or solution, depending on how you look at it)

Set the Virtual Desktop to whatever size is desired. That size will be listed along with the other standard VGA sizes.

Hi,

I'm not entirely positive this will work, but it may be worth a try...obviously,
with emulate virtual desktop enabled, you can specify whatever you want for the
desktop size value, and this includes any of the widescreen resolutions...however..
a specific app might not 'see' that as a valid situation, because the screen refresh
rate of the emulated desktop window is set to 60Hz. Most widescreen resolutions, as
we know, are anything but that...from a 'default' resolution perspective, the refresh
rate for a 16:9/10 aspect display is likely to be 50/51Hz or such.

You can alter this situation by changing a registry setting -- you'll want to run
regedit on the bottle in question, and then search registry for the (2) keys named;

DefaultSettings.VRefresh

You can change the refresh values there accordingly, but be aware the app itself may
also still be looking for a valid desktop size/resolution to match that specification.
This has worked for me with a couple of titles, but of course YMMV depending on the app.

Hope this helps...

Cheers!

OK... Totally ignore this thread. I THOUGHT I was posting under LOTRO. :)

(DDO still doesn't work for me, but that's OK. I can get my Middle Earth on anytime :D )

=)