[Bug 12444] Serious Sam TFE lockups and input delays

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12444





--- Comment #9 from Andreas Dehmel <zarquon at t-online.de>  2009-02-03 14:44:01 ---
On a hunch, I checked the general Serious Sam forums today and found some
entries about Windows users experiencing the same kind of problems with the
game. It turned out that all of them had multicore CPUs and for all of them the
problem was solved by setting the process affinity of the game to one CPU.
So I tried to do the same thing on Linux by starting WINE with taskset and
hoping I'd nail everything required to one CPU (since running WINE always
launches multiple processes, I wasn't certain I'd manage that). And that
actually worked! I watched the demos and played a little, everything smooth as
butter, no lags or freezes. So for the record: if you have a multicore CPU,
start the game via e.g.
taskset 0x00000001 $WINE_EXEC Bin/SeriousSam.exe
and everything should be fine.
Essentially you can close the bug now. I don't know whether other people will
find this solution in the closed bugs section, though, I think this is one for
a more generic WINE troubleshooting guide (if such a thing exists...),
especially since it may also affect other older games.


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