[Bug 9380] New: Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9380

Summary: Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600
                    resolution or higher
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.43.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-opengl
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

When I start Grand Prix Legends 2004 Demo at 640x480, the game runs fluently at
36 fps like it does under windows, but if I change the resolution at 800x600 or
higher, it runs at about 1 fps and at the same moment the cpu usage goes to
100% (at 640x480 is at 20-25% maximum). This happens in a randomic way because
sometimes it switch correctly to the higher resolution and in that case it runs
fluently even at 800x600 (I've seen this case in 3 or 4 cases over more than 30
times I tried to switch to this resolution). However I've never been able to
run at 1024x768 as I normally do under windows.

[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9380

--- Comment #1 from Roderick Colenbrander   2007-08-20 05:50:58 ---
Could you provide some more data? Like the specs of your system, what drivers
you are using and so on? Most likely it is a driver problem.

[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

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--- Comment #2 from Xwang   2007-08-20 06:11:15 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you provide some more data? Like the specs of your system, what drivers
> you are using and so on? Most likely it is a driver problem.

Well I've a laptop (Toshiba m30-304, cpu Pentium-M 1.4 GHz, 1GB Ram, video card
nvidia Fx go5200 32Mb, lcd 15.4" 1280x800 native resolution).
I'm using kubuntu 7.04 with the driver installed from the repositories of the
distro (9631).
Do you need more infos?
Xwang

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--- Comment #3 from Gerald Folcher   2007-08-21 11:59:00 ---
I experience the same (or at least very similar) slow-down bug with
this game, but on my system it happens only rarely. I don't know how
to reliably reproduce it, for me it only happens semi-randomly, when
it happens it seems to be mostly at the start of a race against AI
drivers, or when loading a track (still in the menu), and when
quitting the game (see 3rd paragraph below). I have the impression it
may be related somehow to high CPU load (but I don't know really).

It's specific to this game, I didn't have any such problem with any
other Linux or Wine game.

I regularly run the game at 800x600, 1024x768 works too but probably
has more chance of triggering the bug. USUALLY the game works very
well, but I have a GeForce4 Ti 4200/128M gfx card, which, despite
being older, AFAIK is faster/has more memory than Xwang's, so maybe
that's why in my case the problem is not triggered easily with higher
resolutions. While I'm at it, my other system specs are CPU: Duron 1.8
GHz, RAM: 512M, nvidia proprietary gfx driver v1.0-9639 (I had the
problem also with v1.0-9631 too).

Also I'm not sure it is the same problem but, it happens more often,
when I quit the game and there's the screen with the rolling credits,
if I let it rolling (not hitting a key) for some seconds, it often
suddenly slows down and/or halt and I have to Ctrl-C Wine (Because of
this I've taken the habit of immediately hitting Esc when this screen
appear, but sometimes I'm not even fast enough), it may be interesting
to note that this simple rolling credit screen eats up 99% of my CPU
(according to 'top').

Also, maybe it's unrelated but the game (on Windows) seems to be
touchy when it comes to CPU stuff, look at this FAQ:
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=105748
(search the page for "cpu")

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--- Comment #4 from Roderick Colenbrander   2007-08-21 15:48:13 ---
Based on your comment and the link you posted it looks like it could be issues
in the game itself. Ofcourse Wine itself isn't ideal which in some cases
(perhaps audio) can cause additional cpu load but overall I think it is really
the game. Even without the game bugs I wouldn't have any idea on what to do
about it.

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--- Comment #5 from Gerald Folcher   2007-08-21 17:31:23 ---
Don't forget though that here the same game on the same computer runs fine
under Windows. But that said of course I understand what you mean.

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--- Comment #6 from Xwang   2007-08-21 17:47:25 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Based on your comment and the link you posted it looks like it could be issues
> in the game itself. Ofcourse Wine itself isn't ideal which in some cases
> (perhaps audio) can cause additional cpu load but overall I think it is really
> the game. Even without the game bugs I wouldn't have any idea on what to do
> about it.

Ok, but, since with the same machine the game runs correctly under Windows Xp,
I suppose it may be a strange problem related with the implementation of the
api.
So if it is possible to log the program calls to the wine api, maybe, we can
discover that it hangs when calling a particular function.
Is it possible? How?
Xwang

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--- Comment #7 from Roderick Colenbrander   2007-08-21 17:59:52 ---
You could use a profiling tool like oprofile to figure out in what functions
the most time is spent. (limit it to wine libs and make sure you run it for a
few minutes; then reset the buffer and do it for the other resolution and
compare)

[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

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--- Comment #8 from Xwang   2007-08-22 05:38:09 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> You could use a profiling tool like oprofile to figure out in what functions
> the most time is spent. (limit it to wine libs and make sure you run it for a
> few minutes; then reset the buffer and do it for the other resolution and
> compare)

Is there any more specific howto?
Xwang

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--- Comment #9 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-08-22 08:12:44 ---
This should be enough to get you started:
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=249#oprofile%20&%20Wine

Don't forget that you will need self-compiled Wine with possibly other debug
packages installed, so you can see function names.

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--- Comment #10 from Gerald Folcher   2007-08-23 14:47:34 ---
If it is of any interest, when this bug happens Wine sometimes output
these 2 error messages:

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x94d130 "?" wait timed out in
thread 0012, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x94d1b0 "?" wait timed out in
thread 0013, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)

And after I do Ctrl-C it outputs:

err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 84 bytes in thread 0015 eip 7efcd5f2 esp
7b300fac stack 0x7b301000-0x7b400000

[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

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--- Comment #11 from Gerald Folcher   2008-01-03 07:07:55 ---
Hello,

I just found something very interesting regarding this vicious
slow-motion bug, at least for me it's a working workaround. It seems
that running 'wineserver' with a higher priority (I think, I mean with
a lower 'nice' number) than the game, prevents the bug from happening.

Until I found this I was running both 'wineserver' and the game with
the same priority, eventually trying nice levels from -9 to 19, but
the bug always happened sooner or later (but less with sub 0 values)
(it always happened tho on the rolling credits screen that appears
when you quit the game).

Using this it doesn't happen anymore, I can even let the credits
screen roll and it doesn't happen (while it always gone bad on that
screen, within a few seconds if not immediately). For example, in my
case I start first wineserver with a 'nice -n -5', then I launch
GPLegends with wine with a 'nice -n -3'. For more clarity, here is an
example how it would look like in a script to launch the game:

nice -n -5 wineserver
sleep 1s #wait 1s=one second, not sure if it's required or useful...
nice -n -3 wine C:\Program\ Files\gpl2004\gpl.exe

Btw, I still use Wine 0.9.42 (because with more recent versions (last
one I tried is 0.9.51) performance is very very terribly stutteringly
bad (unless I turn sound off), but that's an other bug/story). But I
think this slow-motion bug still exists in these more recent versions
and this nice level "trick" probably works too.

[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

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--- Comment #12 from Gerald Folcher   2008-01-03 13:21:46 ---
Well sorry, it looks like I jumped too fast to conclusions about this
priority level thing, I found it doesn't completely prevent the
problem from happening, it still happens given enough stress from an
heavy track (circuit) or with bigger resolutions. Sorry if I made
anybody have false hopes. It does often prevent it tho for me (one
proof is the rolling credit screen which always
slowed-down/froze/crashed, and now for me it does no more), but it's
not a cure.

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--- Comment #13 from Roderick Colenbrander   2008-05-01 07:08:38 ---
Moving this bug to unknown as for sure it isn't an opengl problem. The bug
scales with performance stressing the system, so perhaps it is something
wineserver related or something else but not opengl.

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--- Comment #14 from Austin English   2008-10-30 02:12:47 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.7 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #15 from Tux   2009-01-30 06:36:47 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Is this still an issue in current (1.1.7 or newer) wine?

I am running Grand Prix Legends on Ubuntu 8.10 with the latest wine 1.1.12 and
this still happens. The game is running perfectly like on windows, but there
are still random freezes like Gerald Folcher. I have tryed to renice the wine
server and gpl but that did not work

I could add some log files about similar errors to this bug.

But is someone working on this? Can I help trying to solve this problem? Anyone
have any idea what this error means?

Tux

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--- Comment #16 from Austin English   2009-07-30 11:56:52 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.26 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #17 from Austin English   2010-04-29 18:19:55 ---
No response in over 6 months, and no download available. Marking abandoned.

If this is still an issue in current (1.1.43 or newer) wine, and you can
provide the needed information, feel free to reopen.

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--- Comment #18 from Austin English   2010-04-29 18:27:27 ---
Closing.