Wine/winex performance thread.

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

I've recently set up my gentoo box to run CS/Warcraft3 so that it's no longer necessary to boot into windows. I have wine, winex, and winex-cvs all running warcraft 3, but it seems that the best performance comes from regular wine in opengl mode. I also noticed that bad performance can be fixed on some machines if you nice the process.

However, the performance is still much lower than windows--i'm running a 2.6ghz system with a ti4200 and sometimes during big battles i notice that the framerate is probably ~25 or so when i scroll. The performance is quite a bit better in windows. Post any tips you know of to increase wine performance.

A quick sidenote: i'm running a GF4 and I get bizzare corruption, but it only happens in WC3, almost exclusively in the menus, and it's very rare (although it requires a reboot). It happens in both nix and windows, some drivers seem to be more resistant than others, and it doesn't matter whether or not i'm overclocking. Additionally, setting the agp transfer rate to specific values doesn't seem to help nor does overvoltaging the AGP slot. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Mallow005 · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 49 Location: CA

I get the same glitch. Does the screen freeze and a bunch of different colored rectangles cover the screen while the sound still goes or starts repeating? Started happening either after I changed my motherboard or to my GF4, some odd things is that it used to happen all the time in Mafia, I thought it was bad RAM. I started switching sticks. I found that with one stick it was fine. But then after a couple weeks it started happening again! And then I put both sticks back in, and it was fine. It only happens sometimes and seems random.

jufoa

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

It is emulating the hardware layer... Since when should a normal user have direct access to the refresh buffer or video card?

Uranus

jufoa

yoplait · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

Uranus · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:51 am Post subject:

Malakin · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:26 am Post subject:

Last time I checked neither wine or winex used CLFAGS and winex even compiles with debugging turned on. So I compiled winex with something like "-O2 -march=i686 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" and it was significantly faster.

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

max_colby · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 9:09 am Post subject:

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

Malakin · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 11:48 pm Post subject:

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

if you'd like to use winex by cvs, it might be worth noting that the winex source tree is cvs tagged quite heavily, meaning you can pull different versions by using their tags if you dont want to just grab the whole development tree.

a useful tag is probably winex-2-2-1, to get the cvs source for the latest official winex release.

have a nice day.
mike.

Roguelazer · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject:

Hmmm... Sorry to revive an old thread, but I thought it might be of assistance to me in my AGP problem (which I am sure no one has heard of, but the thread is called "Quick AGP Question"). LJ and Mallow005, the problem that you were having is identical to what happens whenever I turn on AGP. Since AGP has to be off, I only get 2700fps in glxgears. Did you ever resolve the problem? Please say yes, I need to get this fixed. Thanks in advance.

mfinger · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

I use winex-cvs (portage) with the latest NVidia kernel/GLX (1.0-4191, not portage version) to run EverQuest and get the same (if not better) performance out of it. If it is slower at all, I can't notice it.