Civilization 2

[Oliver Stieber]

--- Felix Nawothnig <felix.nawothnig at t-online.de>
wrote:

> R.T. wrote:
> > Besides actually writing pixels on the screen,
> these
> > functions also convert between X's internal
> > representation which is 24 bit in my case, since I
> am
> > running X in 24 bits, and 8 bit as required for
> the
> > DIB. So, I tried setting X's display depth to 8
> bit,
> > which actually made the game playable.
> > 
> > This leads me to conclude that the conversion
> between
> > 8 and 24 bits, ties up many resources. I'm not
> quite
> > sure how to proceed from here on though.
> 
> See
>
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/09/0251.html
> and 
>
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/09/att-0250/01-dib-engine.diff
> 

    The other thing you may be able to do is implement
some caching so that the image doesn't get converted
into a xpixelmap unless it's needed.

   I've got a patch somewhere that makes Arcanum under
Cedega about 50 times faster using this method.


> Felix
> 
> 



	
	
		
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