[Bug 29080] New: Serious Sam HD TSE Explosion Lag + Workaround

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29080

             Bug #: 29080
           Summary: Serious Sam HD TSE Explosion Lag + Workaround
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.32
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: FinalCrisisSX at Hotmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified


Arch Linux x86_64, up to date except for Xorg (using 1.10.4) and Nvidia (using
280.13) packages due to a transparency bug in TF2 I've reported to nvidia
caused by nvidia drivers 285.05. I'm on a GTS 250.

In Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, there is a 1.5 second or so complete
freeze of the whole game whenever you blow up something explosive (like killing
any suicide bomb guy always works), consistently. A very good map to reproduce
this on if you have the fusion dlc (serious sam hd tfe content in serious sam
hd tse) is Campaign -> Egypt -> Sand Canyon, since bomb guys come at you
continuously right when you walk out the first door.

Now, I have found a workaround for this which makes no logical sense to me
whatsoever, but I have reproduced it over 10 times (excluding many other times
I reproduced it a long time ago) just to be sure I'm not crazy or mistaken. If
you run a new wineprefix (let's call it winesam), and use a symbolic link to
Steam in your main wine folder under winesam, it works fine. You may think
"Well, that means it's just the clean wine prefix. The main one must have a
problem", not so. If you MOVE the steam folder from the ~/.wine prefix to the
~/.winesam prefix, it starts to lag again. Move it back to the ~/.wine one, and
then link to it with ln -s instead in ~/.winesam, no more lag upon killing bomb
guys. Switching it back and forth in otherwise unchanged ~/.wine and ~/.winesam
reproduces/fixes the issue respectively.

Specific commands:

# Assuming Steam program files folder is currently in ~/.wine prefix
cd ~/.winesam/drive_c/Program\ Files
ln -s ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam ./
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.winesam wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
# no lag when blowing up bomb guys

cd ~/.winesam/drive_c/Program\ Files
rm ./Steam
mv ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam ./
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.winesam wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
# lag when blowing up bomb guys

I have no idea why this is even possible, since it is just linking to the exact
same thing. Note that doing this the opposite way also works: running regular
wine prefix ~/.wine that has a symlink to Steam somewhere else produces no
further explosion lag.

Other than this short hang when blowing up a bomb guy, the game runs perfectly
fine in wine 1.3.18 or with a patched 1.3.32 (see
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29079 ). Same issue in both wine
versions.

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