[Bug 35718] Multiple games have extreme flicker, stutter, slowdown (Path of Exile, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Warframe, Crysis, Anno 1602, Splinter Cell: Blacklist)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35718

--- Comment #49 from Kyle  ---
With 1.7.13, everything worked great.  Then I upgraded to 1.7.16 which caused
this stuttering issue, but single threaded rendering performance was still
acceptable.  Then I upgraded to 1.7.17 and saw the performance drop.  So I
applied the patch and turned multicore rendering back on.  The stuttering
problem was fixed, but performance was still low.

I will try the wine-multimedia-csmt AUR package which is still at 1.7.15 and
see if that restores the performance.

When playing on 1.7.17, I had two vbox machines running plus kdevelop and a
dozen or so Chromium tabs open. However, I have 32GB of RAM, core i5-2500k, and
a GTX 660.  I usually had all those same things open when I ran the game
before, and it didn't seem to have much impact on performance.  Although I
guess I should try playing on wine 1.7.17 with nothing else running to be fair.
 BTW, I always disable kwin compositing before starting the game.

Will do more testing when I get a chance and report back.