[Bug 28126] New: Big Race USA Demo: menu animations and music too fast

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28126

Summary: Big Race USA Demo: menu animations and music too fast
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.26
          Platform: x86-64
               URL: http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Pro-Pinball-
                    Big-Race-USA-Demo.shtml
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=36038)
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bigraceusademo.exe on wine 1.3.26 (no debug channels)

In the Big Race USA Demo (or the full Big Race USA game as sold by gog.com),
the menu animations (blinking of text and spinning of icons) move far too fast.
Additionally, the game music and sound effects are incredibly fast and
'crackly'. I mention both issues as it seems likely they have the same root
cause. My CPU is an i5-750 at 2.67Ghz (presumably this problem may not occur on
something much slower like an Atom).

Workaround: Use cpulimit on the bigraceusademo.exe process. Turning on a noisy
enough debug channel will also slow the process down enough that the sound
problem will go away.

To reproduce, just install the linked demo, run bigraceusademo.exe and observe
the rapidly spinning menu items and corrupted audio output.

$ sha1sum bigrace.zip 
fd5cbfc5da9dd29a010cb02a1f847a753a65c2b2  bigrace.zip

The demo and full game both work perfectly in Win 7 x64 on the same hardware.

I tested in wine 1.0.1, 1.2.3, 1.3.26 and some versions in between. The problem
was less pronounced in 1.0.1 (likely due to worse overall performance).

I'll attach the output from 1.3.26, though the only relevant line appears to be
the following, which seems to be a likely culprit for the problem:

fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_WaitForVerticalBlank iface 0x1557b0, flags 0x1, event (nil)
stub!

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--- Comment #1 from Pierre Etchemaite  2012-07-22 08:30:06 CDT ---

Confirming, problem still exists with Wine 1.5.9.

I tried forcing vsync with
export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 # nvidia?
export vblank_mode=1         # others?

But the effect is not consistent, it worked once but I cannot reproduce it.

When it works, the result is not really improvement, menus that were too fast
become sluggish instead, and key presses are often dropped, making the use of
menus almost as tedious.

Debian unstable architecture amd64
Wine 1.5.9
Nvidia GeForce G102M / proprietary driver 302.17

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--- Comment #2 from Jarkko K  ---
I tried the demo and I can say that using arrow keys in menu it goes too fast
up or down. Also when the "thing" is on top of something the animation is
weird.

wine 1.7.18

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--- Comment #3 from Linards  ---
Since last year no movement on this one?

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--- Comment #4 from [e-mail] ---
Still an issue 1.8.rc3

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 56151
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Terminal output Wine 1.9.23

This is still an issue in Wine 1.9.23. This bug affects the full version of the
game as well as the demo.

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--- Comment #6 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to fjfrackiewicz from comment #5)
> Created attachment 56151 [details]
> Terminal output Wine 1.9.23
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> This is still an issue in Wine 1.9.23. This bug affects the full version of
> the game as well as the demo.

This bug is a dupe for sure.

Bug 9154. There is a short analyze and I could say it all comes to this:
"Since ddraw7_WaitForVerticalBlank() is a stub it's probably too fast :)" See
your debug log.

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--- Comment #7 from Benjamin Legendre  ---
Still an issue in wine-7.7