Army Men RTS

Notes

VERIFIED 10 Sep 2026 on this Mac: Apple M4 16GB, macOS 26.5.1 (25F80). LOAD-BEARING: launch in the small 1024x768 window. launchArgs are -vidmode:1024x768 -h (colon, not space — space-separated vidmode is ignored, bad mode []). The measured wrapper is Wine virtual desktop explorer /desktop=amrts,1024x768; Wyn has no virtual-desktop setting, so that lives here in notes. 1080p and exclusive fullscreen present black on this wined3d path (the LuKeStorm patch NOPs the 1280/1024 clip so 1080p can enter the 22-list and still draws black). -h is 32-bit; without it HigherResolutions makes 16-bit vidmode fall back to 640x480. Played from the Wyn tile: LaunchRecords 283s and 145s (no layer in the record — this profile must not pin translationLayer). amrts.log of the 145s session (21:49:27–21:51:50): CmdLine [vidmode:1024x768] [h]; Device DirectDraw HAL then NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX : 4318.401.0.0 / Wine D3D7 T&L HAL — Wine builtin ddraw → wined3d → OpenGL, not D3DMetal. 11 Sep lsof on the live amrts.exe (wyn-handovers/FINDING-20260911-taskb-legs.md) loaded ddraw + wined3d + opengl32 from the game tree → AppleMetalOpenGLRenderer; a D3DMetal pin on the bottle did nothing to those modules. Loaded world: PreOpenMission [missions\gb][bathroom], Entering run code [Sim] 21:50:28–21:51:36. Clean exit: System shutdown normally. Do NOT pin translationLayer to d3dmetal, dxmt, or dxvk. Leave this profile's layer unset so Play does not merge D3DMetal/DXMT WINEDLLOVERRIDES. Play: wyn play army-men-rts. Path that ran: LuKeStorm Custom Patch (native winmm.dll, stock exe) plus the 1024x768 vidmode. Exclusive crashes on focus loss: [VID RESTORE SURFACES: Alt-Tab] null deref (the 145s session alt-tabbed and still shutdown normally — do not treat that as fixed). AltTabFix only changes HWND_TOPMOST to NOTOPMOST. Do not vmmap the live process. Log is the game-folder amrts.log.