[Wine] Input slowdown with Mass Effect in git

[James McKenzie]

On 5/30/11 6:17 PM, Das Letzte Einhorn wrote:
> This usually occurs to me after about 15-20 minutes of playing Mass Effect in git and the latest xorg-server for gentoo (1.10.2). Overrides are d3dx9_36 and dinput8 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16822).
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> After some time, the input response from the keyboard slows to about 1000 ms, hence making the game unplayable. The mouse input however remains sharp. When I quit the game, the keyboard input remains slow when I type in Konsole or browse the web. When I go to full screen console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and type, the keyboard input is fine. From what I understand, this could be a wine-x11 or a xorg-server bug.
Here is something you can try next time this happens:

Open the full screen session and type in:

ps -ef | grep wine

This should give you a listing of processes running under Wine with the 
game functional.

Switch back to the game's console and stop the program.

Switch back to the full screen session and repeat the command.  There 
should be NO Wine processes running.  If there are, type in wineserver 
-k (this kills the Wine server and should stop all Wine processes.)

Check if a windowed keyboard session now displays the problem.  If it 
does then this might be an xorg problem.  If it does not, this does not 
mean that Wine is the cause.

Try to get the problem to occur again, but do NOT stop the wine 
processes.  Now go to a windowed session and see if the problem is 
present and then stop the Wine processes.  If the problem goes away, it 
is very likely, but not 100% that the problem is with Wine.

Others may add to troubleshooting procedures.

James McKenzie