Regression in "Star wars: The Phantom Menace"

[Carlos Lozano]

Hello,

The patch:
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-cvs/2005/01/0612.html

Log message:
    Rein Klazes 
    Get rid of the rdtsc cpu instruction method for calculation of the
    performance counter. Put the calculation (based on gettimeofday) in
    NtQueryPerformanceCounter() and use that in the kernel functions.

Causes regression in the game "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
The game was playable before of the patch, now it is freezes
in the 3th title screen.

Regards,
Carlos.

[Rein Klazes]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 19:14:40 +0100, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The patch:
> http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-cvs/2005/01/0612.html
>
> Log message:
>    Rein Klazes 
>    Get rid of the rdtsc cpu instruction method for calculation of the
>    performance counter. Put the calculation (based on gettimeofday) in
>    NtQueryPerformanceCounter() and use that in the kernel functions.
>
> Causes regression in the game "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
> The game was playable before of the patch, now it is freezes
> in the 3th title screen.

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately the patch fixes a real problem, I
think simply reverting it is not a good option and finding out why your
program does not like this change is preferred.

It was already noted that some programs are expecting the frequency to
be about what Windows gives them. Does your program still freeze with
the attached patch ?

Rein.

[Lionel Ulmer]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:31:26PM +0100, Rein Klazes wrote:
> > Causes regression in the game "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
> > The game was playable before of the patch, now it is freezes
> > in the 3th title screen.
>
> Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately the patch fixes a real problem, I
> think simply reverting it is not a good option and finding out why your
> program does not like this change is preferred.
>
> It was already noted that some programs are expecting the frequency to
> be about what Windows gives them. Does your program still freeze with
> the attached patch ?

Another (far fetched) possibility is that the game 'caches' into the
registry the queried frequency value and thus cannot adapt to a change.

One could try with a fresh game installation on a new install of Wine (just
to be sure :-) ).

Lionel

[Carlos Lozano]

Hello,

El mar, 08 de feb de 2005, a las 18:31, Rein Klazes escribio:
> > Log message:
> >    Rein Klazes 
> >    Get rid of the rdtsc cpu instruction method for calculation of the
> >    performance counter. Put the calculation (based on gettimeofday) in
> >    NtQueryPerformanceCounter() and use that in the kernel functions.
> >
> > Causes regression in the game "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
> > The game was playable before of the patch, now it is freezes
> > in the 3th title screen.
>
> Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately the patch fixes a real problem, I
> think simply reverting it is not a good option and finding out why your
> program does not like this change is preferred.
>
> It was already noted that some programs are expecting the frequency to
> be about what Windows gives them. Does your program still freeze with
> the attached patch ?

Yes, it works with this patch.

Regards,
Carlos.