http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222
Summary: Extreme slowness in multiple games - nVidia/KDE4/openSUSE Product: Wine Version: 1.1.14 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: chris@chrobis.com
For many of the last few releases of Wine (somewhere not long after 1.0), I've experience extreme slowness across multiple systems and multiple games that wasn't present pre-1.0 or in 1.0 itself.
Specifically, I've noted slowness that makes gameplay impossible in:
- Age of Empires (1997) - Birth of the Federation (1999) - Age of Empires 2 (1999) - Medieval 2: Total War (2006) - Star Trek: Legacy (2006)
The slowdown is significant and affects as you can see a wide range of games on three machines that I own, all of which are more than capable of playing certainly the first few titles on the list.
Of the three machines I own and have tested Wine on, the following are common threads:
- Running openSUSE 11.0 or 11.1 - Running latest Wine (1.1.14) - Desktop environment is KDE4 (though no improvement running with GNOME) - All nVidia cards (but range from an old FX5200 through to an 8400) - All using Wine, KDE4 and nVidia from openSUSE repositories.
That aside, they have nothing in common. Two are 32-bit, one is 64-bit. Two are running relatively old graphics cards, one is running a fairly new one. Two are Intel machines, one is AMD. Two have 512MB of RAM, one has 2GB.
I like to do my bit for Wine by filing bug reports for various apps but this slowdown is hindering me somewhat! I don't know a great deal about how to start debugging, but if someone can suggest to me how I can help diagnose this problem, I'd be more than happy to help :)
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222
--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2009-02-01 11:58:26 --- The best thing you can do is to perform regression testing to identify the patch that made Wine slow: http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222
Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |ABANDONED
--- Comment #2 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-08-13 14:09:51 --- Abandoned. If you still have a problem in current (1.1.27 or newer) wine and can provide the needed information, feel free to reopen.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222
Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED
--- Comment #3 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-08-13 14:11:07 --- Closing.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222
Chris Wales chris@chrobis.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|ABANDONED |FIXED
--- Comment #4 from Chris Wales chris@chrobis.com 2009-08-14 03:36:11 --- Thanks Austin - I can confirm that it appears to have vanished somewhere in the last couple of versions, so I'll mark it as fixed.
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