--- Christoph Frick frick@sc-networks.de wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:57:43AM -0700, satyr_22901@yahoo.com wrote:
I've recently tried to play Heroes of Might and Magic IV under
Wine,
which has very poor performance and this message it printed out
many,
many times after the game is started:
fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy
assuming that this is the real problem for the poor performance you might squeeze quite some speed out if you get rid of the FIXMEs by redirecting the output to /dev/null. if there are really _lots_ of errors like this it takes quite some time to render them depending on your terminal.
Redirecting output to /dev/null doesn't buy any (noticeable) speed. I mentioned the message being repeated rather often as I suspect that the optimization the fixme is suggesting may be what is needed to speed up homm4, not that the printing of the message itself is slowing down the game. ;)
at least this reminds me, that i wanted to test homm3 with wine as the native version no longer works with current linux/glibc/64-bit/godknowswhy.
Not surprising it is broken; I have the Linux version of Heavy Gear 2, and it won't run without pulling old versions of the libraries it needs (like freetype1) from a 32-bit system.... and even then--and also a couple of years ago running it on a newer 32-bit system--using the r300 DRI driver led to corrupted text... but that's getting way off topic and has nothing to do with using Wine or even running closed-source native Linux games... lol
- Brian
-------- Jen: Wings? I don't have wings! Kira: Of course not. You're a boy.
- from "The Dark Crystal"
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