Making Wine and XFree (dynamic color depth) like each other

[Vidar]

Recently, I have reinstalled Gentoo for various reasons. I remembered to back up my xfree config file, but not my wine config. I am having some trouble making wine work at 16bit color depth (for games like half-life that require it) and keeping everything else at 24 bit depth.

If I switch the default depth in the xfree config file from 24 to 16, half-life/wine doesn't complain at me, but I'm stuck with ugly 16bit color, so I switched it back. Before I reinstalled gentoo, Wine would automatically switch itself to 16bit and would work fine.Putting "ScreenDepth" = "16" in the wine config file has no effect.

I am using Xfree 4.3.0-r3, nvidia driver 4496, and wine 20030709.

Here are the relevent portions of my xfree config file and wine config file.

[wdreinhart]

In your wine config file, find the version section and set Windows version to win98. That took care of Half-Life's color depth problems for me.

[Vidar]

Thanks! That seemed to do the trick.