[Bug 17660] New: Starcraft slow down when select any building or units

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17660

Summary: Starcraft slow down when select  any building or units
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.16
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Starcraft slow down when select  any building or unit/s.

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--- Comment #1 from Reenen Laurie   2009-04-30 03:00:47 ---
I have found a similar regression.  Please indicate which graphics card you use
(as mine is *much* better on intel 915 than on my GeForce 5500).

Also, check if the game runs better with "still portraits" (or disabled), and
color cycling disabled. I found this helped a little, but did not fix it
completely.

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--- Comment #2 from Kristoffer Ericson   2009-09-29 04:10:44 ---
Can also confirm this issue. Got an Asus 1000HE with an onboard intel gm945
card.

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--- Comment #3 from Thomas   2010-01-17 20:08:03 ---
I found a solution to this problem. Newer wine versions have very bad support
for StarCraft, but I don't know why exactly.

I got my hands on an old wine version, 0.9.14 and started StarCraft with no
slow issues what so ever, it's 99.9% of what XP delivers.

The very easy way to install and manage multiple wine versions is accomplished
by PlayOnLinux -- it takes ~7 seconds to add an old wine version.

Now all we need is to fix those damn Battle.net menus. Everything else works.

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--- Comment #4 from Jeff Zaroyko   2010-01-18 02:57:16 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Now all we need is to fix those damn Battle.net menus. Everything else works.

Nothing is fixed if you're just downgrading to a version of Wine released in
2006.  Which video card and drivers did you test with?

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--- Comment #5 from Thomas   2010-01-18 12:55:48 ---
(In reply to comment #4)

Technically you're right, it's not fixed. I found a solution to my problem -- a
problem that has been around for ages with still new forums threads created on
the subject, thus I just wanted to share it with as much people as possible.

Pretty soon I'll be buying a nVidia card, but for now I'm stuck with sucky ATi
which means that if I want proper 3D rendering I have to use the proprietary
drivers -- and we all know ATi's policy on legacy cards... no driver updates
ever. So you have to use "old" distros with xservers/xorg that those drivers
support. At least that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8543 Release

DRIVERS: Catalyst 9.3 ("Newest proprietary driver") -- using latest Fedora
supporting it: Fedora 10.

My GPU is PCI:E unfortunately, that feature is not supported by the old driver
version.

nVidia here I come!

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--- Comment #6 from Roderick Colenbrander   2010-03-03 07:35:39 ---
It is critical for performance that you use either an old Nvidia card
(geforce-geforcefx) or a card which supports shaders. When either of the two
conditions is true enable DirectDrawRenderer opengl. Without opengl, it is not
easy to make this game fast (we perform palette conversion in a very
inefficient way).

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--- Comment #7 from Matteo   2010-07-11 17:53:55 ---
Created an attachment (id=29546)
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cure for slowness

This bug is still present in wine-1.2rc6. Selecting buildings during upgrading,
overlords, evolving eggs and everything displaying a progress bar results in
100% CPU usage and slowness. The main cause is an increased number of
Locks/Unlocks needed to paint the scene.

As pointed out here:

http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectDraw

frequent Locks/Unlocks can lead to performance losses. Unfortunately even by
setting DirectDrawRender to opengl one still gets extremely high CPU usage
under the above circumstances.

The attached patch is a hack made specifically for starcraft that tries to
overcome the problem. Locks/Unlocks are redirected to a memory buffer and real
video memory Locks are allowed to occur roughly 50 times per second. This
successfully reduces the CPU overhead both in gdi and opengl mode.

Example: DirectDrawRenderer = opengl with "CPU throttling" enabled in starcarft
results in 25-30% CPU usage on my Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz even when selecting
overlords / buildings.

Note that this is not a fix of wine's directdraw implementation, it will only
work with starcraft, possibly breaking other apps. I've tested the patch on
wine 1.0.1 (debian testing) and wine 1.2rc6, is there anyone willing to test it
further?

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--- Comment #8 from karol   2010-08-16 18:01:13 ---
I have nvidia FX 5500 and I don't experience any slowness when using the
nouveau driver, the nvidia driver however produces the dreaded sloooownesss.

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--- Comment #9 from Andy   2010-08-19 19:39:20 ---
Thanks a million!  This patch fixed it for me, after many unsuccessful
attempts.  I have a nVidia Geforce Go5200 FX and a pentium 4 processor
(laptop).

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX Go5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.22

Before patching the game was playable but slow, especially when selecting
particular units and structures (e.g. overlord). After patching performance is
just as good as in windows.  I patched and compiled from wine 1.3.0 source.

It worked for my buddy as well, I think he has ATI hardware of a similar era,
but I'm not sure exactly what.

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--- Comment #10 from Dani Pratomo   2010-08-24 01:53:15 ---
Yes slowness happen in my jolicloud 1.0 (ubuntu jaunty). But this patch indeed
solved the problem. But the same bug happen when I run StarCraft in windowed
mode using iCCup Launcher.

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--- Comment #11 from Matteo   2010-08-24 09:26:41 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Yes slowness happen in my jolicloud 1.0 (ubuntu jaunty). But this patch indeed
> solved the problem. But the same bug happen when I run StarCraft in windowed
> mode using iCCup Launcher.

iCCup windowed mode depends on wmode.bwl plugin (by XeNotRoN). By hooking ddraw
APIs this plugin changes the cooperative level from DDSCL_FULLSCREEN to
DDSCL_NORMAL. From what I can tell it also replaces every Lock/Unlock with
BitBlts, thus nullifying the effects of the patch. You can try to modify
dlls/gdi32/bitblt.c in order to lower the rate of BiBlts per second, hopefully
reducing the CPU overhead.

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--- Comment #12 from Jeff Cook  2010-08-29 03:38:56 CDT ---
Has anyone tested for this bug against a recent HEAD? I've watched my brother
play StarCraft with a git build from about a week back and I didn't notice any
slowdown and he hasn't complained of any. We did not apply the patch included
in this thread. He is using a GeForce 6150SE with nvidia blob drivers (256.44).

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--- Comment #13 from Dani Pratomo  2010-08-30 20:10:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Has anyone tested for this bug against a recent HEAD? I've watched my brother
> play StarCraft with a git build from about a week back and I didn't notice any
> slowdown and he hasn't complained of any. We did not apply the patch included
> in this thread. He is using a GeForce 6150SE with nvidia blob drivers (256.44).

I was using wine 1.2 and experience a slow down before I apply the patch.
Curious, Then I try recent wine 1.3.1 on the PlayOnLinux but still the same bug
exist.

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--- Comment #14 from Alexey Alexeev  2011-05-21 13:50:54 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=34831)
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Commands to build wine

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--- Comment #15 from Alexey Alexeev  2011-05-21 13:53:22 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=34832)
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Hack for wine-1.3.20

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--- Comment #16 from Alexey Alexeev  2011-05-21 13:54:39 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=34833)
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Script to run StarCraft

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--- Comment #17 from Alexey Alexeev  2011-05-21 13:55:33 CDT ---
I confirm this bug.

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVS 3100M/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06

I use separate wine installation with modified
http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29546 patch for last (1.3.20 wine
version) as workaround.

Apply attached patch. Install packages needed to compilation. Change directory
to wine source and run attached commands. Copy Starcraft from
"~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Starcraft" to
"/opt/wine-starcraft/winedrive_c/Program Files" or install using
WINEPREFIX=/opt/wine-starcraft/wine and /opt/wine-starcraft/bin/wine.
You can use attached script to run StarCraft.

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--- Comment #18 from Dariusz  2011-10-19 09:55:13 CDT ---
Hi. I had the same problem with Wine from ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa in Ubuntu 11.04.
Unfortunately I don't remember the version. Now I'm on 11.10 and I have Wine
from ubuntu repo (v 1.3.28) and Starcraft runs flawlessly! Additionally Wine
always exit properly (no more killing StarCraft.exe and changing back screen
resolution).

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--- Comment #19 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 01:21:29 CDT ---
I have wine 1.4.1 and have this bug as well. Certain units and buildings cause
the game to slow down more than others. If a building is idle (i.e. not
building or upgrading anything) the lag is negligible. If the building is
highly damaged, then the game slows down some. If I select an enemy unit, their
is almost no lag. If by chance I have no unit selected (maybe the unit I had
selected died), the game runs smoothly and quickly, better than on Windows. The
effect is worst when I select units or a building that is actively building a
unit or upgrading.

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--- Comment #20 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 16:17:19 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> I have wine 1.4.1 and have this bug as well. Certain units and buildings cause
> the game to slow down more than others. If a building is idle (i.e. not
> building or upgrading anything) the lag is negligible. If the building is
> highly damaged, then the game slows down some. If I select an enemy unit, their
> is almost no lag. If by chance I have no unit selected (maybe the unit I had
> selected died), the game runs smoothly and quickly, better than on Windows. The
> effect is worst when I select units or a building that is actively building a
> unit or upgrading.

This bug isn't present when I run the game on wine version 0.9.14 (there is a
bug with the sound however). Also my graphics card is ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
and the driver is Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480.

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--- Comment #21 from joaopa  2013-05-08 16:57:08 CDT ---
Can you give a try with wine 0.9.36? There was a big change in this version
about directx

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--- Comment #22 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 17:36:36 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> Can you give a try with wine 0.9.36? There was a big change in this version
> about directx

I still have issues with no sound.

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--- Comment #23 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 18:05:40 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > Can you give a try with wine 0.9.36? There was a big change in this version
> > about directx
>
> I still have issues with no sound.

Sorry, didn't play long enough to tell if that lag bug was still there. The
game does still slow down when I select certain buildings and units.

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--- Comment #24 from joaopa  2013-05-08 18:27:42 CDT ---
what about with wine 0.9.35?

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--- Comment #25 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 19:53:44 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> what about with wine 0.9.35?

The bug is still present. They don't seem noticeable at first, but the longer I
play the worse it gets. It might be in my head, but it seems to fare better in
these older versions. I'm going to test 0.9.14 again, maybe the bug was there
and I didn't notice.

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--- Comment #26 from Nil Choudhury  2013-05-08 20:11:56 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> > what about with wine 0.9.35?
>
> The bug is still present. They don't seem noticeable at first, but the longer I
> play the worse it gets. It might be in my head, but it seems to fare better in
> these older versions. I'm going to test 0.9.14 again, maybe the bug was there
> and I didn't notice.

works well using 0.9.14. Also, I used wine config to select the audio drivers
and sound works fine.

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--- Comment #27 from joaopa  2013-05-08 20:22:20 CDT ---
At least, you should try to find out  what is the first non-working wine.

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--- Comment #28 from lizhenbo  2013-05-08 21:57:07 CDT ---
Is a regression test necessary?

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--- Comment #29 from Joel  2013-05-10 10:50:18 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Has anyone tested for this bug against a recent HEAD? I've watched my brother
> play StarCraft with a git build from about a week back and I didn't notice any
> slowdown and he hasn't complained of any. We did not apply the patch included
> in this thread. He is using a GeForce 6150SE with nvidia blob drivers (256.44).

On a reasonable modern computer can be difficult to notice the slowdown,
especially for causal gamers like me. In a competetive multiplayer setting with
high level players it's much more likely to be an issue. (Though I think the
severity of this bug might vary depend on the gfx drivers)

Other similar reports: bug 14373 (closed despite reports saying it's not fixed)
and bug 21470

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--- Comment #30 from Nil Choudhury  2013-07-21 03:37:43 CDT ---
Sorry, haven't been testing other versions of wine until recently as 0.9.14
works well. It seems to get progressively worse with each new version of wine.
On 1.6 the effect is immediately noticeable. On 0.9.17, the effect is there
though negligible at first. When playing online, other players are quick to
point out the "lag." However, the slowed performance in minuscule compared to
the most recent versions of wine. 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 may also have this bug, but
there wasn't a large enough reduction in game performance when I tried these
versions of Wine. It may be the case the reduction in performance in 0.9.14 is
so negligible that no one has noticed, not even on older computers like the one
I am using. For the record, my hardware stats are a dual core 1.8 ghz processor
with 2gb of ddr2 memory, an ATI radeon xpress 1100 graphics card with 256mb of
dedicated memory and 256mb of share memory. I am using the open source drivers
(as the legacy proprietary drivers are not compatible with any reasonable
version of x.org).

Across these different versions of Wine, I'm inclined to believe this is the
same bug. The symptoms appear when selecting units and are more severe
selecting certain types of units, though the degree of severity varies with
whichever version of Wine I use.

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--- Comment #31 from Ambrevar  ---
Overriding ddraw.dll with http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/ does the trick for me.

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--- Comment #32 from Maik Wagner  ---
Hello everyone,

Slackware 14.1 with wine 1.7.39 here. I downloaded the demo and had the
following result: The game slows down when selecting buildings but not when
clicking SCV-units. I am using the following chipset:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

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--- Comment #33 from Ken Sharp  ---
Confirmed by multiple users.

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--- Comment #34 from joaopa  ---
Still a bug in current wine (3.19)?