331.20 driver, xrandr 1.4.1, wine 1.7.8, stretching 2D games to widescreen problem

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Trying to stretch a 2D game to widescreen (peggle nights). This used to work fine last time I played this game. Not anymore though. I’ve tried various things I have found online. Here are the things I have tried so far:

  1. run game in virtual desktop
  2. adding metamodes; tried this line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1920x1080}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1680x1050}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1600x1200}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1440x900}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1400x1050}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1280x1024}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1280x960}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1280x800}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1152x864}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=1024x768}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=832x624}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=800x600}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=700x525}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=640x480}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=512x384}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=400x300}; nvidia-auto-select {ViewPortIn=320x240}"

Is this ^^ right? I am pretty confused about the metamode thing.

  1. Tried compiling wine --without-xrandr

  2. Tried installing all of the directx libraries available in my wine bottle (unneeded / made no difference at all)

  3. Tried asking for help on irc. No one seems to be on the last couple of days or no one knows the solution.

  4. Tried simply changing my desktop resolution to that of the game (still get black bars on sides of screen)

The error message I am getting from wine when trying to do this before it crashes is:

Additional information: Card is gtx 560m (laptop; no optimus), nvidia driver 331.20-1, wine version 1.7.8, kernel version 3.12.3-1, OS is Arch Linux, window manager is openbox (no 3rd party compositor running).

Works fine with nouveau (as far as I can tell it has to do with randr; at least that’s what I have read online). So since it works with nouveau the conclusion I have come to is that it is graphics driver related and that is why I am posting on these forums. I am running out of ideas. I read a few similar posts on these forums but I could not put together any real solution. Any ideas on how I can get this working?

Edit: Attaching log in case it helps at all. Well it says scanning please wait. Hopefully it uploads. If not it is easy enough to reproduce if needed.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (92.5 KB)