[Bug 12609] New: Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

Summary: Silent Hill 2: random slow down
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.59.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I'm running SH2 with this hardware: athlon 3000+, 512 MB of ram, matrox g550 on
xubuntu gutsy (7.10), wine is run in emulated desktop @1024x768.
When the game runs at normal speed it is enjoyable of course.
But half the time i play, it is very slow. I can't tell what component causes
this because no extra messages come from the command line (many fixme messages
but they are not related to the slow downs). What i know is that this happens
at random time and place (i mean, in the game) and i think this is not due to
scene complexity, it happens during the normal game (so with variable scene
complexity) but also:
- during the game start and load menus,
- when James doesn't move (it waits), with the light on or off,
- when i look at the inventory,
- when i look at the city map,
- during a cut scene (the game uses bink video).
Well, it can happen at any time!
Further, the same random is for slow downs disappearing! The same scenarios
cause the game to get faster at normal speed, when nothing changed.
I really don't know what to investigate.
Sometimes i can restore the normal speed moving a large window over the wine
desktop (so forcing wine to redraw the whole window) but, i said, sometimes;
this doesn't work anytime.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #1 from topolinik   2008-04-16 04:55:51 ---
The game is set up with very low details since my video card mounts only 32 mb
of ram.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #2 from topolinik   2008-05-13 03:13:44 ---
No updates about the game.
Now, since my video card may not be supported as well as konami says, maybe the
game is requiring some 3D features i'm actually missing. So the slow downs
might be related to these 3D features when they are emulated via software. Is
there a way to see how cpu time is shared between the game code (that is, the
code 'above' wine) and the 3d graphic subsystem calls (that is, the code
'below' wine)? I want to see if the slow downs are either due to the konami
code or to the emulation done by dri.
Elio

BTW, sorry for my poor english in the first post :-P

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #3 from Austin English   2008-11-12 13:49:33 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.8 or newer) wine?

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

tmatth  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from tmatth   2008-11-20 19:00:41 ---
I have the same issue with 1.1.8, but i have an ATI Radeon 9600 with 256mb
video memory

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--- Comment #5 from Dmitry   2008-11-23 05:03:14 ---
if in tuning of wine to clean a mark to include pixel shader that slow is
halted

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--- Comment #6 from topolinik   2008-11-23 06:37:40 ---
Well, i just tried the game with latest wine 1.1.9 on my xubuntu 8.04.
Results are the same, i will explain what happens during in-game action: James
moves slow. The strange thing is the locations that were running at normal
speed some month ago, they may cause James to move slowly as well (i.e. into
the apartments).
In general, now the speed variation isn't random-based. The more the scene
complexity, the slower the game. I can call this a 'normal' or 'expected'
behaviour.
But, please note, now even the faster location is slower than the faster
location when i was playing it some month ago.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #7 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-11-23 17:37:42 ---
*** Bug 16175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #8 from Dmitry   2008-11-24 14:14:57 ---
fixme:d3d:state_fog Implement software vertex fog for pixel shader < 3.0

bug's with shaders until now is not decided

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #9 from topolinik   2008-11-25 08:24:29 ---
@tmatth:
if the same happens on a last-gen graphic card, then the slow-down is not due
to my ancient hardware. So, software tuning may fix everything.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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--- Comment #10 from tmatth   2008-11-26 00:26:29 ---
update: killing pulseaudio (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) seems to have fixed the menu
performance and distorted sound i was getting.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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--- Comment #11 from tmatth   2008-11-26 00:34:19 ---
sorry, menu performance might be the same, the sound being distorted before
just made it more noticeable.

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--- Comment #12 from Jeff Gringo   2008-12-25 17:56:18 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> fixme:d3d:state_fog Implement software vertex fog for pixel shader < 3.0
>
> bug's with shaders until now is not decided

I also have the same fixme message and this slowdown in Operation Flashpoint.
The message appears endless on the commandline as long as the game is running.

I have GLSL and VertexShaders enabled and an NVIDIA 7900 card.

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--- Comment #13 from didli   2009-01-06 18:16:43 ---
Setup failed for me with wine 1.1.12, Intrepid Ibex 32 bits, kernel 2.6.27-9. 
Setup will launch and then fails a few seconds later (installer exception error
and ikernel.exe stuck).
Never had a problem with this game before (Edgy,Gutsy,etc).
Is there anyone that could confirm ?

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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--- Comment #14 from topolinik   2009-01-22 04:09:37 ---
Created an attachment (id=18891)
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This is the log from WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine Setup.exe

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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--- Comment #15 from topolinik   2009-01-22 04:13:43 ---
Just tryed an installation with wine 1.1.12 on my xubuntu 8.04 hardy, it fails.
The process behaves different in first case, when the reported error is about
"installation module, impossible to startup (0x8002802b)" (i translated from
italian) - you can read the attached log.
Then the other attempts always result in "Error during iKernel installation
(0x1400)"
I will try again with latest wine 1.1.13.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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--- Comment #16 from topolinik   2009-01-22 04:23:57 ---
Created an attachment (id=18892)
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Install is successful with wine 1.1.13

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

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[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #17 from topolinik   2009-01-22 04:45:15 ---
Using wine 1.1.13 installation issues seem to be fixed although many error
messages still appear in the console.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #18 from Austin English   2009-07-30 11:17:43 ---
Reported fixed...6 months ago.

[Bug 12609] Silent Hill 2: random slow down

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609

--- Comment #19 from Austin English   2009-07-30 12:02:38 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.26 or newer) wine?

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Alexandre Julliard   2009-08-07 12:12:17 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.27.