[Bug 32478] New: The Settlers III heavy performance issue

Bug #: 32478 Summary: The Settlers III heavy performance issue Product: Wine Version: 1.5.19 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: fantonifabio@tiscali.it Classification: Unclassified

I have installed The Settlers III on Ubuntu 12.04 with Cinnamon as DE, applied 1.60 patch and XP exe following the "Installation HOWTO" of the game. The game run slow also on small map 1 vs 1, PC have good hardware (vga is nvidia 9500 GT), tried with wine 1.4.1 and wine 1.5.19. Seem not need installation of other things, I also tried some standard winetrick but nothing change. Someone can tell me what another things to try and if you need other details and logs? Thanks for any reply and sorry for bad english.

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20 Dec 20 Dec

7:22 p.m.

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--- Comment #1 from Fabio Fantoni fantonifabio@tiscali.it 2012-12-20 13:22:12 CST --- Created attachment 42870 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=42870 Script used for execute on new X server

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7:23 p.m.

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--- Comment #2 from Fabio Fantoni fantonifabio@tiscali.it 2012-12-20 13:23:13 CST --- Created attachment 42871 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=42871 Log of Settlers 3 execution on new X server

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7:27 p.m.

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--- Comment #3 from Fabio Fantoni fantonifabio@tiscali.it 2012-12-20 13:27:33 CST --- I tried to execute Settlers on new X server (script used in attachment), I have attached also log output. I start the game, start custom scenario some seconds and closed game. Also in new X server performance is bad, I have also tried without start DE and stopping also lighdm but always bad performance :(

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7:41 p.m.

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22 Dec 22 Dec

9:22 p.m.

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--- Comment #4 from Fabio Fantoni fantonifabio@tiscali.it 2012-12-22 15:22:43 CST --- Problem seem that game is always max usage of cpu, also without DE windows manager and other things running. Tried on 2 pc, one with core2duo E4600 and other with corei5-2430M, both seem worse than when I played this game with Pentium2 and Pentium 3 computers Can be caused by some bugs, for example this? err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded Or I need change some settings for improve performance? Thanks for any reply

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1 Jan 1 Jan

6:28 p.m.

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Adrian Kalla adrian.kalla@gmail.com changed:

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wine-bugs＠winehq.org

6:32 p.m.

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--- Comment #5 from Adrian Kalla adrian.kalla@gmail.com 2013-01-01 12:32:59 CST --- With older Wine releases, the performance was even worse...

With modern hardware it is playable - you'll notice the slowness only, if you recently played on Windows (even on a Pentium III...). Not playing on Windows at all anymore, I've got used to it. But it still would be nice, if it would get faster.

Nonetheless, it is more important to make S3 work again, as Wine 1.5.20 broke it...

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4 Jun 4 Jun

2:11 p.m.

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Paul The Tall paulthetall@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Paul The Tall paulthetall@gmail.com 2013-06-04 09:11:40 CDT --- Any word on this because issue is still there.... its lagging

err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x10fea4c,0x00000000), stub! err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded

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2:12 p.m.

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--- Comment #7 from Paul The Tall paulthetall@gmail.com 2013-06-04 09:12:28 CDT --- OSX 10.8.3 Nvidia GT Geforce 512mb Wine 1.5.31

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5 Jan 5 Jan

8:43 a.m.

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magnedj@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #8 from magnedj@gmail.com --- Still an issue with Wine 1.7.10 and every Wine version before that I have tried. Very sad since the game otherwise works perfectly. I'd be willing to pay a bit of money to get this fixed as I still want to play this with some friends of mine over LAN.

-Computer- Processor : 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory : 6058MB (2660MB used) Operating System : Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS -Display- Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels OpenGL Renderer : GeForce GTS 250/PCIe/SSE2 X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

If someone could at least confirm the status of this report we might get some more attention.

By the way my own theory is that this is some sort of renderer bug or use of a deprecated Direct3D function from the game since it renders fine but stutters every few seconds in Wine yet works fine under newer Windows versions - even Windows 8.

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11:58 a.m.

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GyB gyebro69@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #9 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com --- (In reply to comment #8)

Still an issue with Wine 1.7.10 and every Wine version before that I have tried. Very sad since the game otherwise works perfectly. I'd be willing to pay a bit of money to get this fixed as I still want to play this with some friends of mine over LAN.

-Computer- Processor : 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory : 6058MB (2660MB used) Operating System : Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS -Display- Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels OpenGL Renderer : GeForce GTS 250/PCIe/SSE2 X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

If someone could at least confirm the status of this report we might get some more attention.

By the way my own theory is that this is some sort of renderer bug or use of a deprecated Direct3D function from the game since it renders fine but stutters every few seconds in Wine yet works fine under newer Windows versions - even Windows 8.

Have you tried running the game only on 1 CPU core? 'taskset -c 0 wine S3.EXE'

This helps eliminate the "lag" in Settlers III (GOG.com version) on my dual-core system.

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12:08 p.m.

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--- Comment #10 from Adrian Kalla adrian.kalla@gmail.com --- (In reply to comment #9)

Have you tried running the game only on 1 CPU core? 'taskset -c 0 wine S3.EXE'

This helps eliminate the "lag" in Settlers III (GOG.com version) on my dual-core system.

This did the trick for me too - wow. Thanks :)

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12:49 p.m.

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GyB gyebro69@gmail.com changed:

--- Comment #11 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com --- The problem can be reproduced with the early demo version as well (dated from 1999). Install the demo and choose <Demo Map> from the main menu and try to scroll the screen by pressing and holding the right mouse button. You should observe that the game comes to a halt every few seconds.

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1:20 p.m.

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--- Comment #12 from Magne Djupvik magnedj@gmail.com --- (In reply to comment #9)

Have you tried running the game only on 1 CPU core? 'taskset -c 0 wine S3.EXE'

This helps eliminate the "lag" in Settlers III (GOG.com version) on my dual-core system.

This fixed or at least minimized the problem to miniscule amounts! Thanks so much for this workaround and I hope it will be incorporated as a fix in Wine proper. :D

You've really made my day! Now I'll tell the good news to my friends. :)

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6 Jan 6 Jan

10:20 p.m.

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1 Mar 1 Mar

10 p.m.

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--- Comment #13 from Adrian Kalla adrian.kalla@gmail.com --- Created attachment 50919 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=50919 Console output with Wine 1.7.34 (one on multiple cores, one on one core only; with: warn+all,+loaddll,+message,+msgbox,+wine_d3d,+ddraw,+d3d_draw,+d3d_surface,+d3d_texture,+d3d,+dplay,+dplay,+dpnhpas)

Not sure if this helps to debug this, but here are two logs: one on multiple cores, one on one core only (packaged with p7zip because of the 1000 KB attachment limit).

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10:01 p.m.

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--- Comment #14 from Adrian Kalla adrian.kalla@gmail.com --- (In reply to Adrian Kalla from comment #13)

warn+all,+loaddll,+message,+msgbox,+wine_d3d,+ddraw,+d3d_draw,+d3d_surface, +d3d_texture,+d3d,+dplay,+dplay,+dpnhpas)

The name was somehow cut off. Should be: warn+all,+loaddll,+message,+msgbox,+wine_d3d,+ddraw,+d3d_draw,+d3d_surface,+d3d_texture,+d3d,+dplay,+dplay,+dpnhpast,+cursor,+bitmap

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15 Jul 15 Jul

9:04 a.m.

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Kero ntfs@ya.ru changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Kero ntfs@ya.ru --- It's very sad because on Mac OS (from 10.7+) I can't disable HyperThreading and do this since Apple remove hwprefs ='(

Does any other solution exist?

(In reply to comment #8)

...
Still an issue with Wine 1.7.10 and every Wine version before that I have tried. Very sad since the game otherwise works perfectly. I'd be willing to pay a bit of money to get this fixed as I still want to play this with some friends of mine over LAN.

-Computer- Processor : 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory : 6058MB (2660MB used) Operating System : Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS -Display- Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels OpenGL Renderer : GeForce GTS 250/PCIe/SSE2 X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

If someone could at least confirm the status of this report we might get some more attention.

By the way my own theory is that this is some sort of renderer bug or use of a deprecated Direct3D function from the game since it renders fine but stutters every few seconds in Wine yet works fine under newer Windows versions - even Windows 8.

Have you tried running the game only on 1 CPU core? 'taskset -c 0 wine S3.EXE'

This helps eliminate the "lag" in Settlers III (GOG.com version) on my dual-core system.

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23 May 23 May

3:59 p.m.

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--- Comment #16 from winetest@luukku.com --- Where does this demo unpacks itself?

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4:34 p.m.

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--- Comment #17 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- (In reply to winetest from comment #16)

Where does this demo unpacks itself?

C:/BlueByte/S3AmazonDemo is the location of the installed demo by default.

C:/users/<username>/Temp/WZS???.tmp is where the files are extracted during installation.

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5:33 p.m.

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--- Comment #18 from winetest@luukku.com --- (In reply to winetest from comment #16)

Where does this demo unpacks itself?

Strange.

Even with .wine deleted I am unable to install it, but I tried after multiple tries same prefix wine-staging and it gives some install screen that I wasnt able to see before. Now I was able to start the demo with wine-staging and it indeed had some strange lag in game animation.

wine 2.8-git and staging 2.8.

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9 Mar 9 Mar

9:34 a.m.

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15 Dec 15 Dec

10:45 p.m.

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joaopa jeremielapuree@yahoo.fr changed:

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--- Comment #19 from joaopa jeremielapuree@yahoo.fr --- Bug is still there in current wine(4-0.rc2).

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WineHQ Bugzilla

19 Nov 19 Nov

8:17 p.m.

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Igor i.kotrasinsk@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Igor i.kotrasinsk@gmail.com --- Still an issue in wine 4.19.

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WineHQ Bugzilla

8 Nov 8 Nov

6:42 p.m.

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Petr Pošvic petr@posvic.cz changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Petr Pošvic petr@posvic.cz --- The solution is to use single core (option in Lutris) and set the CPU affinity of "wineserver" process. Use "taskset -pc 0 `pidof wineserver`" (or for fish "taskset -pc 0 (pidof wineserver)"). Then I recommend set maximum frequency to all CPUs to something low, i.e. 1500MHz: sudo cpupower --cpu all frequency-set --max 1500MHz.

My next recomendation is playin in window and set system resolution to 800x600, but everything works in fullscreen. Only suspend and resume game is problematic and sometimes doesn't work (you are not able switch between game and other applications or next monitor).

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25 Dec 25 Dec

11:10 p.m.

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