[Bug 46225] New: Act Cadenza Strife (A Fighter Maker 2knd game): Uses 60%+ of the CPU

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46225

Bug ID: 46225
           Summary: Act Cadenza Strife (A Fighter Maker 2knd game): Uses
                    60%+ of the CPU
           Product: Wine
           Version: 3.21
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdi32
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 62912
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=62912
Stack Trace of ACS.exe

I've noticed the issue occurring in ReactOS (which uses the code that WINE has
for the drawing of graphics when it comes to DirectDraw). I am using the latest
stable version of VirtualBox with 32 MB of Video Memory set and running WINE
via Slax 9.5.0. An image of the terminal output, stack trace made using a MSVC
build of ReactOS with the PDBs made when compiling it, and an image of the
reported CPU usage when its running are all attached.

Download URL:
https://mega.nz/#!JoJ0RaTY!cwVHOQbDDyrkpQlPNbDvkPwNsa3H0fYksx4ApNb9jQI

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--- Comment #1 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Created attachment 62913
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=62913
Screenshot of its CPU Usage while it is running

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--- Comment #2 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Created attachment 62914
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=62914
Terminal Output shown when running ACS.exe

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                   |                            |H0fYksx4ApNb9jQI

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--- Comment #3 from Nikolay Sivov  ---
Stack is from ReactOS, right? Why is this reported as wine bug?

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--- Comment #4 from Nikolay Sivov  ---
Also, do you have rights to distribute whatever is on this link?

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--- Comment #5 from Bryan Kirk  ---
(In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #3)
> Stack is from ReactOS, right? Why is this reported as wine bug?

1. Because ReactOS uses code from WINE for DirectDraw, etc.
2. Because the issue also happens in WINE.

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--- Comment #6 from Bryan Kirk  ---
(In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #4)
> Also, do you have rights to distribute whatever is on this link?

Yes, since the developer of it hasn't complained about it being distributed.

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--- Comment #7 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #6)
> (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #4)
> > Also, do you have rights to distribute whatever is on this link?
>
> Yes, since the developer of it hasn't complained about it being distributed.

That's not how copyright works.

In any case, you should report this to ReactOS, since that's what you're using
and not Wine. Just because they use code from Wine doesn't make it Wine's bug.

If you test this under Wine and see the same problem, feel free to reopen.

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--- Comment #8 from Bryan Kirk  ---
It does happen in WINE. Please take a look at
https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=62913.

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #9 from Fabian Maurer  ---
Removed link to copyrighted materials.

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--- Comment #10 from Bryan Kirk  ---
So, I can't link to any Fighter Maker 2knd game since I don't know if they are
copyrighted or not?

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--- Comment #11 from Fabian Maurer  ---
You can link to official version. And generally, everything is copyrighted, and
you can't distribute it unless you've been given explicit permission. Wine for
example, has a license that explicitly grants you permission.

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--- Comment #12 from Bryan Kirk  ---
The main site for Act Cadenza Strife doesn't have it for download anymore.

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--- Comment #13 from Bryan Kirk  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #12)
> The main site for Act Cadenza Strife doesn't have it for download anymore.

So, what else can I add to help get it fixed?

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--- Comment #14 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Any news regarding it?

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--- Comment #15 from joaopa  ---
For this king of problem, an apitrace is always useful.

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--- Comment #16 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Should I run apitrace on the game in ReactOS or WINE?

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--- Comment #17 from joaopa  ---
Wine.

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--- Comment #18 from Bryan Kirk  ---
I can't get it to work. I get a "GameSystem Open error" when I use the
following command while the terminal emulator I'm using (sakura) has its
current directory set to the location of Act Cadenza Strife and its files:

wine /media/sda1/apitrace-msvc/x86/bin/apitrace.exe trace --api gl -v
/media/sda1/acs/acs.exe --output Z:/media/sda1/acs.trace

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--- Comment #19 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Looks like its a bug in Apitrace since I couldn't even get it to make a trace
file in Windows 10.

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--- Comment #20 from Matteo Bruni  ---
(In reply to joaopa from comment #15)
> For this king of problem, an apitrace is always useful.

For this kind of problem, an apitrace is never useful, in fact.

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--- Comment #21 from Matteo Bruni  ---
How much CPU does it use on windows? Or, in other words, is this a bug at all?

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--- Comment #22 from Bryan Kirk  ---
The CPU usage is low in Windows. I'll try running it under WINE with ddraw set
as the debug channel.

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--- Comment #23 from Bryan Kirk  ---
I managed to get a log by using the all debug channel. I will make one
contaning only the proper channel(s) soon.

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--- Comment #24 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Created attachment 62971
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=62971
Debug log of Act Cadenza Strife running under WINE

I have made a debug log using the gdi and relay debug channels of Act Cadenza
Strife being ran. It is attached as a ZIP archive.

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--- Comment #25 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Any news regarding it?

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--- Comment #26 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Why has no one confirmed it yet?

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--- Comment #27 from Bryan Kirk  ---
It also seems to be causing the high CPU usage in other games (such as Melty
Blood: Actress Again - Current Code and Iconoclasts).

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--- Comment #28 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #26)
> Why has no one confirmed it yet?

Probably because nobody else has tried to reproduced the bug.

I have now, and I see the game is calling PeekMessage() in a tight loop. Are
you sure it doesn't have high CPU usage in Windows? What specific numbers are
you seeing?

(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #27)
> It also seems to be causing the high CPU usage in other games (such as Melty
> Blood: Actress Again - Current Code and Iconoclasts).

Do you have a significant reason to believe these problems are related? Are
they using the same engine, for instance?

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--- Comment #29 from Bryan Kirk  ---
1. I am seeing near 100% CPU usage when running it in ReactOS which is using
WINE's code for the drawing of GDI based programs. When running it in Windows
7, it is only using 16-25% of my CPU.

2. I think that they both are using GDI to draw the gameplay (if not Melty
Blood, then definitely Iconoclasts since Steam doesn't need to install DirectX
for it to run properly).

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--- Comment #30 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #29)
> - I am seeing near 100% CPU usage when running it in ReactOS which is using
>
> WINE's code for the drawing of GDI based programs. When running it in
> Windows 7, it is only using 16-25% of my CPU.
> - I think that they both are using GDI to draw the gameplay (if not Melty
>
> Blood, then definitely Iconoclasts since Steam doesn't need to install
> DirectX for it to run properly).

That doesn't really mean much. GDI isn't the reason that this program is taking
that much CPU time. And not installing DirectX doesn't mean at all that the
program is using GDI to draw.

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--- Comment #31 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Is it still fixable?

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--- Comment #32 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #31)
> Is it still fixable?

It may or may not be, but determining how is not particularly easy.

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--- Comment #33 from Bryan Kirk  ---
It would be nice if more people were to take a look at it. That way the cause
can be found.

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Matteo Bruni  changed:

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--- Comment #34 from Matteo Bruni  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #33)
> It would be nice if more people were to take a look at it. That way the
> cause can be found.

So I had a look. The game constantly uses most of a CPU core to draw graphics
via GDI functions. In fact that's true both on Wine AND on Windows, it's just
that CPU usage is reported differently.

On Linux a 100% CPU usage e.g. in "top" means that the total CPU utilization is
one core. On Windows' task manager a 100% CPU utilization means that ALL cores
of the CPU are in use. With this game on Windows I get about 12% CPU usage,
which is essentially 100/8 (8 is the number of CPU threads I have).

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--- Comment #35 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Is there no way to keep it from using 100% CPU? Or have GDI use the video
card's CPU if possible?

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--- Comment #36 from Fabian Maurer  ---
Is the performance worse on Wine? Or is just the reporting different?

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--- Comment #37 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #35)
> Is there no way to keep it from using 100% CPU? Or have GDI use the video
> card's CPU if possible?

There is no way to keep it from using 100% CPU. The game itself is broken that
way.

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--- Comment #38 from Bryan Kirk  ---
(In reply to Fabian Maurer from comment #36)
> Is the performance worse on Wine? Or is just the reporting different?

Its CPU usage was high when I last tested it. So, it probably is slower even
though its using all cores.

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André H.  changed:

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--- Comment #39 from André H.  ---
closing invalid

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--- Comment #40 from Bryan Kirk  ---
(In reply to André H. from comment #39)
> closing invalid

Why is this invalid?

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--- Comment #41 from André H.  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #40)
> (In reply to André H. from comment #39)
> > closing invalid
>
> Why is this invalid?

Mostly because of #c34
and also #c37

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--- Comment #42 from Bryan Kirk  ---
How about using Hardware Acceleration for GDI?

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--- Comment #43 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #42)
> How about using Hardware Acceleration for GDI?

That wouldn't affect anything. It's not Wine's code that's spinning, it's the
application's code.

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--- Comment #44 from Bryan Kirk  ---
Would limiting its cpu usage fix anything?

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--- Comment #45 from Fabian Maurer  ---
(In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #44)
> Would limiting its cpu usage fix anything?

You would need to ask the developer of the program. On windows it's using a
full CPU core, and so it is on Wine. The CPU usage is exactly the same, no bug
here. And I don't see a performance problem either.