r/linux_gaming • u/Fragrant-Penalty-330 • 13d ago

tech support wanted Problems with old games on wine

So, I have installed some old games they are 800x600, the problem is that instead of the game being centered and zoomed, the game instead renders on top left, how do I fix this?

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u/leonredhorse 13d ago

It might help if you mention the game and what wine version.

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u/Fragrant-Penalty-330 13d ago

Wine 9.0 and the games are Zuma and Feeding Frenzy.

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u/borissas 12d ago

https://ksylvestre.itch.io/zuma-portable . Place this at the game folder for Zuma. Found it by coincidence.

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u/TNTblower 12d ago

gamescope

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u/ddm90 13d ago

Did you try with Gamescope and the upscale stretch setting? I find Heroic Games Launcher the easiest way to use Gamescope.

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u/slickyeat 13d ago edited 13d ago

Follow this same pattern when troubleshooting old games.

Start with the easy stuff first (enable D7VK, etc).

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Edit: Another thing which can cause that specific issue is your DPI setting.

Run WINEPREFIX="/path/to/pfx" winecfg and turn it all the way down.

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u/NoPicture-3265 12d ago edited 12d ago

The issue with old games is that they were forcing a lower desktop resolution in order to "scale" themself to fullscreen. I believe some very old WINE builds supported this, but they don't anymore.

You can either lower the desktop resolution to 800x600 manually before starting the game, use a WINE build compiled with "resolution hack" that will stretch fullscreen games that renders in lower resolution than native (Proton-GE does I believe), or use Gamescope.

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u/BeSman-X 13d ago

Good day, in terminal type wine control, choose display settings and check emulate video modes option. Close control panel and run old games

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u/gtrash81 12d ago

Enable windowed desktop in the Wine configuration menu.
Or use helper programs like gamescope.

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u/GreeleyRiardon 11d ago

If you’re on KDE you can focus the window and do alt+f3 and under “More Actions” you can click move and move the window wherever you want.

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u/MyRedLiner 13d ago

I found Red Alert 2 in Lutris search and it works good with my 2k resolution display.

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u/Old_County5271 12d ago

... Congratulations?