http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25733
Summary: Magic the Gathering: DotP is really slow loading a match Product: Wine Version: 1.3.11 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.6 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: ntdll AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: per@morth.org
When Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Plainswalker starts a match, it does a _lot_ of these calls:
trace:file:FindFirstFileExW L"DATA_DLC_0003\DATA_PC\DATA_SHARED\ART_ASSETS\MODELS\CARD\ART_ASSETS\TEXTURES\PTBOX_FULL.IMG" 0 0x33bb60 0 0x0 0 trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"DATA_DLC_0003\DATA_PC\DATA_SHARED\ART_ASSETS\MODELS\CARD\ART_ASSETS\TEXTURES\PTBOX_FULL.IMG",0x33baf4,0x33bafc,0x0) trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"DATA_DLC_0003\DATA_PC\DATA_SHARED\ART_ASSETS\MODELS\CARD\ART_ASSETS\TEXTURES\PTBOX_FULL.IMG" 520 0x33b818 0x33bafc) trace:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"\program files\steam\steamapps\common\magic the gathering - duels of the planeswalkers\DATA_DLC_0003\DATA_PC\DATA_SHARED\ART_ASSETS\MODELS\CARD\ART_ASSETS\TEXTURES\" not found in /Users/pelle/.wine/dosdevices/c:/program files/steam/steamapps/common/magic the gathering - duels of the planeswalkers
I estimated it to around 290k calls for one match using wc. Of these over 95 % fail like the one above, while a few do find the requested file. This makes the match take several minutes to load in wine. I don't have any windows machine but I assume it's much much faster there.
Something should be done to speed this up. I was thinking maybe a cache, but ofc it's difficult to cache when the file system might change under your feet. Ideas appreciated.