http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34474
brymaster@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED
--- Comment #9 from brymaster@gmail.com --- Thanks Ken, I think that patch fixed the problem.
I've tested with both Age of Empires 1 and 2 on Wine 1.7.11 with Henri's hack for #34166 applied (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34166#c23) so that I could use ddr=opengl instead of the ddr=gdi workaround for the flickering (which only worked up until 1.7.1 but appears to have been fixed in 1.7.9).
So mouse movement is definitely fast and responsive as compared to X11 for these games. I should also note that I tested without directplay installed for Age of Empires 1 so I'm wondering if that's even necessary now. Though before your patch I found that installing directplay as you had suggested seemed to help.
Not sure what the deal is with #34166 but it looks like one of those issues that is never going to be fixed since blame is coming from both Apple and WineDev, so best to keep that hack around. Without that patch there's no way I can actually test these games in the default ddr=opengl.