http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33335
Bug #: 33335 Summary: Out There Somewhere runs very slow due to multiple registry lookups every frame Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: scott@open-vote.org Classification: Unclassified
The DirectDraw game Out There Somewhere runs quite fast on windows and very slowly in Wine.
The game seems to do many, many round trips to the wineserver querying the registry for locale information, multiple times per frame. Some rooms in the game are slower than others, presumably because they have different objects that hit this path more. Apparently this sort of registry lookup seems to be much faster in Windows than on Wine.
The game has a "compatibility mode" option in the menu that seems to speed up performance dramatically as well (making it quite playable), but this bug report is with compatibility mode turned off.