[Bug 17222] New: Extreme slowness in multiple games - nVidia/KDE4/openSUSE

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17222

           Summary: Extreme slowness in multiple games -
                    nVidia/KDE4/openSUSE
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.14
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: chris at chrobis.com


For many of the last few releases of Wine (somewhere not long after 1.0), I've
experience extreme slowness across multiple systems and multiple games that
wasn't present pre-1.0 or in 1.0 itself.

Specifically, I've noted slowness that makes gameplay impossible in:

- Age of Empires (1997)
- Birth of the Federation (1999)
- Age of Empires 2 (1999)
- Medieval 2: Total War (2006)
- Star Trek: Legacy (2006)

The slowdown is significant and affects as you can see a wide range of games on
three machines that I own, all of which are more than capable of playing
certainly the first few titles on the list.

Of the three machines I own and have tested Wine on, the following are common
threads:

- Running openSUSE 11.0 or 11.1
- Running latest Wine (1.1.14)
- Desktop environment is KDE4 (though no improvement running with GNOME)
- All nVidia cards (but range from an old FX5200 through to an 8400)
- All using Wine, KDE4 and nVidia from openSUSE repositories.

That aside, they have nothing in common. Two are 32-bit, one is 64-bit. Two are
running relatively old graphics cards, one is running a fairly new one. Two are
Intel machines, one is AMD. Two have 512MB of RAM, one has 2GB.

I like to do my bit for Wine by filing bug reports for various apps but this
slowdown is hindering me somewhat! I don't know a great deal about how to start
debugging, but if someone can suggest to me how I can help diagnose this
problem, I'd be more than happy to help :)


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