wine much faster as root?

[Jonas Diemer]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:49:56 +0100
Jonas Diemer <diemer at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have installed wine release 20011004 as a debian package.
> 
> I tested the performance using Q3 timedemo (i know there's a linux version of
> Q3, but I figured the win version would be a good wine benchmark).
> 
> running wine as a normal user, I get 27,3 fps (in demo001), running as root I
> get 39,1! I measured a couple of times, it's not a measuring error.
> 
> Why is there such a big difference? did I miss some setup?
> 
> regards
> 
> Jonas

oops, my fault. I was using an old wine registry in ~/.wine as the normal user.
I copied the .wine dir from root, now benchmarks are the same.