http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32930
Bug #: 32930 Summary: Age of wonders 2 and to a lesser extent Age of wonders shadow magic suffer from mouse lag when on direct3d Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: i30817@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified
I may be overreaching with the conclusions but it seems that a well known design problem of Direct3d/windows device api made the jump to wine, even though a normal workaround in windows is to 'use opengl'.
These games suffer from what is commonly called 'floating cursor' or mouse lag if configured with direct3d (supposedly the hardware mode and the most efficient). If you search for 'direct3d mouse lag' you come across numerous blogs/forums explaining the cause.
http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/2009/02/01/directx-d3d-mouse-lag http://www.southwindsgames.com/blog/2009/01/15/mouse-lag-keyboard-lag-direct... http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?15469-Mouse-Lag-with-D3D
So this is a bit of a problem for those games and probably more. Even a wine registry hack would be nice