Change Wine reported version without changing preset

Storm · 2017-10-14 08:55:57

Hi!

So the Blizzard app and all Blizz games work perfectly with Wine staging and the Vista preset. However, since a few days, Blizz officially dropped Vista support which means the app refuses to launch because it thinks it's running on Vista.

If I switch the preset to anything newer (eg. Win 7) several things will be broken.

So how can I keep the Vista preset but report Win 7 as the system version towards Win apps?

Thanks in advance,
Storm

Last edited by Storm (2017-10-14 09:13:50)

Storm · 2017-10-16 11:47:40

bump

Slithery · 2017-10-16 11:56:03

Don't do that.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ct#Bumping

V1del · 2017-10-16 13:59:17

I don't see how this would be feasible, that's precisely what happens if you report Win 7 to the application. It will start to use features that might not be available yet. However looking at the winehq entry mentions that using wine-staging should work just fine, is that not the case? Also define "several" things. If other games are affected but they happen to still have Vista support you can define other rules for those specific executables or switch only the blizzard app to win 7.

Storm · 2017-10-21 17:43:15

slithery wrote:

Don't do that.

How is it worse than posting a new thread? I got a helpful reply now. When the forum gets lot of posts thread sink down quickly and then nobody will see them again.

V1del wrote:

looking at the winehq entry mentions that using wine-staging should work just fine, is that not the case?

Sadly no. I'm using Staging 2.18 (the latest shipping in Arch)

V1del wrote:

Also define "several" things.

News tab and Private messages - or if using the Beta, then Social tab where chats are moved. I can only chat with anyone from within a game.

V1del wrote:

you can define other rules for those specific executables or switch only the blizzard app to win 7.

I didn't know that. How do I do that? It's the other way around though: Games need Win 7+ or they refuse to run but chat/news only works in older than Win7 (eg. XP, 2008).

I also submitted a bugreport to Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43910

jasonwryan · 2017-10-21 18:19:28

Storm wrote:

slithery wrote:
Don't do that.
How is it worse than posting a new thread? I got a helpful reply now. When the forum gets lot of posts thread sink down quickly and then nobody will see them again.

Did you bother to read the link slithery posted? The Code is there for a reason; principally, so we don't have to keep explaining to people how this community works. Read it.

Slithery · 2017-10-21 22:15:08

Storm wrote:

How is it worse than posting a new thread?]

It's not worse than posting a new thread, but you're not allowed to do that either.

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#1 2017-10-14 08:55:57

Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#2 2017-10-16 11:47:40

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#3 2017-10-16 11:56:03

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#4 2017-10-16 13:59:17

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#5 2017-10-21 17:43:15

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#6 2017-10-21 18:19:28

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

#7 2017-10-21 22:15:08

Re: Change Wine reported version without changing preset

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