[Bug 6033] Fallout 2 : In game mouse pointer is unusable

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6033

--- Comment #30 from Arthur Nascimento   2008-02-10 10:33:29 ---
Nice one juhos!

I had noticed the fixme message on changing the depth but I didn't think it
could cause all this. As a result I have been seeing several games take up 100%
processor and I never knew why. It must be using the processor to translate the
pixels from 24 to 16 or 8, on software level.

Not a fix, but a workaround is to start another X when playing Fallout. That,
along with your comment on the screen depth, solved most of my problems.

The command I use is similar to this:
xinit `which wine` /home/path/to/fallout2.exe -- :1 -depth 16

So I guess ddraw needs a better algorithm for that task or figure out how to do
it on hardware level. Until then, perhaps the message could a little bit more
helpful than it is now. Perhaps saying about the software translation and how
it can consume system resources.
The curent message is this:
fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32