[Bug 30019] The Chosen (Well of Souls) demo - terrible performance in mid-game

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30019

--- Comment #5 from GyB  2012-02-26 21:26:03 CST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Created attachment 39097 [details]
> wined3d: Do not use double-buffered dynamic buffers
>
> This patch, on top of attachment 39092 [details] fixes performance in this game. Please
> give it a try.

Thanks, game speed is back to normal with the 2 patches.
> The main thing I am worried is that the game crashes when it saves the game, or
> at least during the first autosave once you move a few steps north. I'm not
> sure if this patch causes this issue. It looks unrelated(The game passes a
> broken DDSURFACEDESC2 to Surface::Lock), but the VBO dropping in PreLoad is
> ugly and fragile.

That's bug #18725, a long standing problem. It is present with Wine-1.1.x too.