[Bug 30404] New: Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

Bug #: 30404
           Summary: Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships
                    battles
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.5.1
          Platform: x86-64
               URL: http://www.galciv1.com/download.asp
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Created attachment 39744
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=39744
new Data dir

To reproduce:
- download and install 1.03 demo version from above URL in a clean wineprefix
(same issued with fully patched retail version)
- replace Program Files/Strategy First/Galactic Civilizations Demo/Data dir
with the attached file
- launch the game (wait until intro screens are passed)
- hit "Restore Last Civilization" in the main menu
- hit 3 times the different "Done" buttons
- right-click on the lower ship to start the battle
(hit Esc then "Quit Game" to exit the game once the battle is finished)

=> combat much slower than normal (should only take a couple of seconds)

Setting HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer=gdi in the registry
somehow fixes/workarounds the issue.

Configuration:
- wine-1.5.1-219-g4b3e4fa (same with 1.5.1 save for unrelated bug 30213)
- linux 3.0
- nVidia driver 295.33 (x86_64)
- Xorg 1.10.4

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #1 from Frédéric Delanoy  2012-04-10 07:35:56 CDT ---
Created attachment 39745
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=39745
Terminal log wine-1.5.1-219-g4b3e4fa

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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Christopher May  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Christopher May  2012-08-19 08:13:03 CDT ---
Can confirm this still happens in 1.5.11

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #3 from Christopher May  2012-08-19 09:29:23 CDT ---
A workaround to this bug is thus;

Play the game in a virtual desktop. Whenever a battle happens, keep dragging
the window outside your desktop. The fight happens in realtime when it's drawn
off-screen. I wonder if a setting can be done to do this for me.

In fact, Just putting another window in front of the battle also has the same
effect.

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #4 from Frédéric Delanoy  2012-09-22 17:08:12 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> A workaround to this bug is thus;
>
> Play the game in a virtual desktop. Whenever a battle happens, keep dragging
> the window outside your desktop. The fight happens in realtime when it's drawn
> off-screen. I wonder if a setting can be done to do this for me.
>
> In fact, Just putting another window in front of the battle also has the same
> effect.

An easier workaround is to change a registry value, as explained in original
post

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

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GyB  changed:

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          Component|-unknown                    |winex11.drv

--- Comment #5 from GyB  2013-01-06 07:35:23 CST ---
Still present in 1.5.21, tested with the open source Nouveau and the Nvidia
binary drivers with the same result.

Just for the sake of completeness, Wine 1.1.30 was the last working version,
and the problem appeared after

6b8753185f30197047773af6a26eafd34d45367c is the first bad commit
commit 6b8753185f30197047773af6a26eafd34d45367c
Author: Roderick Colenbrander 
Date:   Sat Sep 26 14:52:46 2009 +0200

winex11: Add support for 16-bit/32-bit DIB sections.

Setting the registry key 'ClientSideWithRender=N' doesn't help in recent Wine
versions, but it used to work around the problem with old versions, e.g. Wine
1.2.3, 1.3.10.

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #6 from Frédéric Delanoy  2013-05-07 06:53:28 CDT ---
Still present in wine-1.5.29-102-g6cc0e7

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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                URL|http://www.galciv1.com/down |http://www.gamershell.com/d
                   |load.asp                    |ownload_2070.shtml

--- Comment #7 from Frédéric Delanoy  2013-09-02 04:35:05 CDT ---
Still in wine 1.7.1

SHA1 b0a9a16dedf813f67db155e8d8bcb5c60ec9b969 galcivdemo103.exe (or
galcivdemo103_final.exe)

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #8 from Frédéric Delanoy  ---
Still in wine 1.7.11

Note the workaround (HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer=gdi)
doesn't work anymore (game crashes).

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30404

--- Comment #9 from Béla Gyebrószki  ---
Still occurs in wine-1.9.14-244-ga02c7ce.
Fedora 24, XOrg 1.18.3, Nvidia binary drivers 367.35.

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

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[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #10 from [e-mail] ---
Does the demo download for you? It gives me an error while trying.

I looked into wine source code what that commit did.

git show 6b8753185f30197047773af6a26eafd34d45367c

This bug btw doesnt have regression id, even a commit is mentioned.

What functions the game spams when playing with wine trace related to the
commit?

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

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joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from joaopa  ---
Download link is burst: here is a working one:
https://ia802507.us.archive.org/17/items/galcivdemo103b/galcivdemo103b.exe

Can an administrator put the link at URL place?

Unable to test with wine-7.0 since the game crashes when loading the save game.
Is anyone able to reproduce the bug?

[Bug 30404] Galactic Civilizations 1: severe slowdown during ships battles

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Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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                URL|http://www.gamershell.com/d |https://archive.org/downloa
                   |ownload_2070.shtml          |d/galcivdemo103b
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--- Comment #12 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

I prefer links to a download page rather than a direct link to the file(s), in
case they rename or relocate to another storage server.

I've updated the URL with the main download page of that file on archive.org.

Regards.