[Bug 10696] Direct3D mode in Age of Wonders 2 demo is unusably slow and glitchy

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10696

--- Comment #3 from Eli   2009-07-20 14:33:02 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I've just tested this under 1.1.26.
>
> The menu screen loads apparently faultlessly but the game never seems to take
> focus. I can't move the menu's cursor, or use the keyboard to navigate the menu
> items, no input seems to be received at all.

That's Bug 10016 (which oddly, has starting affecting my setup, which it didn't
before).  As a workaround, you can open some other program, like Wine Notepad,
with Wine first (and keep it open), run the following command, then launch the
game:
ps -C wineserver -o pid= | xargs renice 19 --pid

Update on this bug: the flickering issues seem to have gotten worse; there's
now flickering in-game as well as on the "buy now" screen.  The game is also
still unplayably slow.