[Bug 10177] New: Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

Summary: Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.47.
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-opengl
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I recently upgraded from two nvidia 7900GTS cards in SLI to two 8600GTS cards,
still in SLI.

Since doing so, textures outside my immediate area (not sure how to describe...
30 or so game yards?) are drawn slowly.  Moving forward I see terrain and
objects drawn without any texture (just grey) then slowly the textures fade in.

I run WoW in opengl mode, I tried to switch over to d3d, but the game runs so
poorly that I really couldn't determine if the issue was apparent there as
well.

I reported this to nvidia
(http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100893) and they felt that
(since it apparently doesn't happen in Windows) I should report it here as
well.

I apologize for not having a whole ton of other information.  :(

Anything I can do to be more helpful, please let me know.

[Bug 10177] Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

--- Comment #1 from Dave M   2007-10-26 18:08:49 ---
Just FYI... still happening in 0.9.48, not even sure if it's a WINE issue but I
will wait and see what someone else thinks.

Thanks.

[Bug 10177] Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

Roderick Colenbrander  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #2 from Roderick Colenbrander   2007-10-27 05:16:59 ---
It is not a wine problem. Our opengl code (except for some code to initialise
opengl) only forwards to the native opengl. There are I think a few things.
First of all the geforce8 linux drivers aren't that optimal (though it is a lot
better in the latest releases). Second not all apps take advantage of SLI. It
depends on how apps are written. Some opengl calls are 'expensive' to sync
between cards and cost a lot of performance.

You could try a different SLI rendering mode. That could really help. Check
your nvidia readme file for more information. Perhaps also figure out what SLI
mode the nvidia drivers select for wow on windows.

[Bug 10177] Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

--- Comment #3 from Dave M   2007-10-27 07:35:45 ---
That was my impression as well... I did try disabling SLI outright, but no
improvement.  The person at Nvidia handling my post did say they'd look into a
driver issue if the WINE team felt it was not a WINE issue.

Thanks!

[Bug 10177] Slow texture drawing in World of Warcraft

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

Dan Kegel  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #4 from Dan Kegel   2008-01-28 05:59:09 ---
Closing all RESOLVED INVALID older than four weeks.