[Bug 9380] Grand Prix Legends: heavy randomic slowdown at 800x600 resolution or higher

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9380


Gerald Folcher <geraldf2 at free.fr> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Gerald Folcher <geraldf2 at free.fr>  2007-08-21 11:59:00 ---
I experience the same (or at least very similar) slow-down bug with
this game, but on my system it happens only rarely. I don't know how
to reliably reproduce it, for me it only happens semi-randomly, when
it happens it seems to be mostly at the start of a race against AI
drivers, or when loading a track (still in the menu), and when
quitting the game (see 3rd paragraph below). I have the impression it
may be related somehow to high CPU load (but I don't know really).

It's specific to this game, I didn't have any such problem with any
other Linux or Wine game.

I regularly run the game at 800x600, 1024x768 works too but probably
has more chance of triggering the bug. USUALLY the game works very
well, but I have a GeForce4 Ti 4200/128M gfx card, which, despite
being older, AFAIK is faster/has more memory than Xwang's, so maybe
that's why in my case the problem is not triggered easily with higher
resolutions. While I'm at it, my other system specs are CPU: Duron 1.8
GHz, RAM: 512M, nvidia proprietary gfx driver v1.0-9639 (I had the
problem also with v1.0-9631 too).

Also I'm not sure it is the same problem but, it happens more often,
when I quit the game and there's the screen with the rolling credits,
if I let it rolling (not hitting a key) for some seconds, it often
suddenly slows down and/or halt and I have to Ctrl-C Wine (Because of
this I've taken the habit of immediately hitting Esc when this screen
appear, but sometimes I'm not even fast enough), it may be interesting
to note that this simple rolling credit screen eats up 99% of my CPU
(according to 'top').

Also, maybe it's unrelated but the game (on Windows) seems to be
touchy when it comes to CPU stuff, look at this FAQ:
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=105748
(search the page for "cpu")


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