http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589
--- Comment #9 from Gerald Folcher geraldf2@free.fr 2007-12-21 19:33:49 --- Hello again,
In Grand Prix Legends, starting from Wine 0.9.50 or maybe 0.9.49 (haven't tested this one), sound is now ok (like it was with Wine 0.9.42), but now the sound seems to affects performance very very badly (not only framerate is low but it stutters (there are sort of pause/warps)) when near other cars (ie: in the pit lane). It seems to be related to sound (mixing ?) because after turning sound off with winecfg the game is running smooth again (like 0.9.42 does with sound (btw, I'm still using 0.9.42, I love it), or like 0.9.48 does with scratchy/bad sound). (It seems tho that this performance problem may not be as evident on high performance computers as someone told me he didn't had this problem on his computer (that is much more powerful than mine, at least for the CPU), so it may require a not too recent computer to trigger the problem.)
But as far as Grand Prix Legends and this scratchy sound bug are concerned it seems resolved (I'll probably open a new bug report for the new sound/performance bug, and consider regression testing if I can).
Btw sorry to bring a bad news with the good one, tho maybe it's not related.