Wine performance bad on FC4.

[Rudolf Kastl]

2005/11/21, Philippe Anctil <z77y16 at hotmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Back with Wine 20031212, I installed and played Warcraft 3 on RedHat9. It
> ran very nicely.
>
> I came back to Wine recently and thought it be fun to try Warcraft 3 again.
> I installed Wine 0.9.1 on my Fedora Core 4 system and reinstalled Warcraft
> 3. Problems started I began playing. To my surprise, many actions cause a
> very perceptible pauses (ex 1/2 to 1 sec). For example:
> - Selecting workers at beginning of game -> half a second pause.
> - After a worker is selected, pressing keyboard shortcuts to build a
> structure -> half a second pause before the building appears under my
> cursor.
> - Things do get better afterwards, but the game does not feel so fast.
>
> I reinstalled RH9 on a free partition and confirmed Warcraft 3 plays much
> smoother on that version. I can feel some very short pauses, but they're
> negligible compared to those experienced on FC4. I tested the following
> variables with this test:
> - Used wine 0.9.1 on both installs.
> - Used nvidia 1.0-7676 on both installs.
> - Ran the game from the same fake drive.
> - Disabling sound does not help FC4.
> - Tried various wine os modes on FC4. They all behave the same : win2k,
> nt40, winme, win98.
> - Recompiled the 2.6.14.2 kernel on my FC4 system, using FC4's own config as
> a base. I made the kernel preemptible, selected 1000Hz timers, selected
> appropriate processor... I thought it'd help but it didn't.
>
> The next things I'm going to try:
> - Install a fresh FC4 and see what the result is.
> - Try a 2.4 kernel on FC4.

try the old wine build on fc4... thats what id try to do. create
proper traces... comment on appdb.winehq.org. and keep the info
flowing to the wine list (because only people that can really help you
to identify the problems are upstream developers.)

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

>
> In the meantime, does anyone have better suggestions? Has anyone experienced
> the same kind of trouble? I have reported this problem at WineHQ already but
> I think the problem lies with FC4.
>
>
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