http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31978
Bug #: 31978 Summary: LWA_COLORKEY support significantly slows down GOG installer verification progress bar Product: Wine Version: 1.5.15 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: winex11.drv AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: jonas.bugzilla@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified
Installers from gog.com always first verify their own integrity. During this period they display a custom progress bar, which makes use of the LWA_COLORKEY attribute.
Prior to wine containing support for LWA_COLORKEY, this verification process was basically limited by the speed of the hard drive. Since that support has been added, the verification has become much slower, and furthermore the progress bar flickers a lot.
I've bisected the cause to
commit edea44f0ff995aadaaadb866a022832c16301e4a Author: Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org Date: Wed Sep 12 16:00:18 2012 +0200
winex11: Add support for the LWA_COLORKEY layered window attribute.
To reproduce: it should happen with any installer downloaded from gog.com. I tested with the freely available http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/teenagent
I'm using XQuartz 2.7.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. If you need any traces, let me know