https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45518
Bug ID: 45518 Summary: Empire Earth GOG: Mouse lags since update to 3.13 Product: Wine Version: 3.13 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: gereon@gereonfox.de Distribution: ---
Since updating Wine from 3.11 to 3.13, the mouse pointer is extremely laggy in Empire Earth (GOG edition), in both the menus and the actual game play (which I barely managed to with that amount of lag). All one has to do to reproduce this is launch the game and move the mouse in the main menu
I have been playing the game for a few months now on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86, 64bit), using bumblebee (so I called "optirun wine "EE-AOC.exe"). Everything worked totally fine, the only thing I had done in the very beginning to play with EE's graphics settings a bit. Since then I have not done anything that could have caused mouse pointer problem.
To make sure that the problem is indeed caused by the Wine update, I tested the following Wine versions:
Wine 2.0.1 - similar problems, though not entirely the same Wine 3.9 - this is what I downgraded Wine to right now (because 3.11 is not available anymore in my repos), here everything works fine Wine 3.11 - this is the version that I used before 3.13 and everything was fine here Wine 3.13 - this is where I noticed the problem for the first time
In addition, the AppDB page of Empire Earth (https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25242) describes a similar-sounding problem for all Wine versions prior to 3.4 that the game was tested with ("mouse slow").
I am aware of the very similar bug report https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13351 and maybe it's got something to do with this, but I'm not sure that the lag I'm experiencing is exactly that problem: The workaround mentioned there ('xinput') did not help me (as opposed to the people in said report).
Judging by the above observations, my guess is that somewhere between 3.0 and 3.4 the problem has been fixed, but somewhere between 3.11 and 3.13 it has been reintroduced.
The bug I mentioned above lists this link as a source of a demo version of EE: https://www.fileplanet.com/80809/80000/fileinfo/Empire-Earth-Demo