I just re-tested and using -nosound does not seem to make any difference.<br><br>wine WoW.exe -opengl (with or without -nosound) gives:<br><br>I can see the buttons and the particle effects at the login screen (my WTF file has pixelshaders disabled)
<br><br>wine WoW.exe (directX mode):<br><br>I can see the entire screen, but it will run, say 20 frames smoothly then hiccup, 20 frames+hiccup etc.<br><br>Not sure if there is anything I can do to improve it, I tried setting nice -15 but it did not seem to make much difference to it. I also do not know if I should not be using D3D anyway. Lastly I tried setting SET M2UseShaders "0" in my WTF file and openGL rendered completely but now has the same "hiccup" problems D3D has.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Burke</b> <<a href="mailto:burkey@burkeez.com">burkey@burkeez.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I will give it a try to see if that isolates it, pretty sure I saw it happen before the patch though which makes me think drivers. I will see what kind of a difference it makes to it with -nosound though<div><span class="e" id="q_11578205670c2f33_1">
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On 10/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">tparker</b> <<a href="mailto:tparker@etherstorm.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tparker@etherstorm.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
urke wrote:<br> > thing that has me is that this odd<br> > "CPU overload" only started happening on the 8.41.7 drivers. Before<br> > that WoW ran ok, FPS was too low to really play properly but it ran.
<br><br>I don't have one of those cards to test this with, but if the problems<br>are post patch 2.2 then the driver may be fine. Try starting the game<br>with '-nosound' and see what that does to your FPS. There have been some
<br>serious CPU usage issues with WoW 2.2 and 2.22 that are still being<br>worked on. When I was testing this on my system (Nvidia graphics) I had<br>high CPU usage and horrid FPS, but with -nosound I was back up to 50-60
<br>FPS. Sorry if it is the card/drivers, but since the sound overloading<br>systems is a known issue it may be worth testing.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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