[Bug 12302] Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar unplayable due to high lag

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12302





--- Comment #59 from Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox.com>  2008-07-10 20:18:00 ---
(In reply to comment #57)
> I dont fancy a custom Wine
Me neither

> 1- if this is a Lotro bug in the client could it be that the "orignal windows"
> dll or whatever handles this in windows does something similair to to reduce
> massive udp packages ?
No.  In fact, that is quite far beyond the bounds of a reasonable supposition.

> 2- I am still wondering why not everyone using Wine has this issue with lotro,
> could it be something in our linux network settings, ip6 or whatever that is
> diffrent ? 
Here's a good quote from this thread on codemasters
http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269211&page=2&pp=10

If you understand anything about programming in languages like C, C++,
assembly, etc., you know that there are contracts with each interface you call.
Take printf from the standard C library. You pass "%s" and a single pointer to
a null-terminated character array and it prints your string. But if you pass
"%s" followed by anything other than a pointer to a null-terminated character
array then the results are (and a quote every C library specification for
printf) "undefined". Undefined may mean that it prints nothing, prints the
string "(null)" (which some implementations will do if it detects a null
pointer), crashes your app, or if you are running windows it just may blue
screen your ass.

> and finally who would be smart enough to make a filterdupes :)

Just because you aren't smart enough doesn't mean that others aren't.

(In reply to comment #58)
> This patch approach looks promising, but i would prefer a kind of runtime
> option to enable/disable this patch. This way it could be possible for this
> patch to make it into the official wine. Maybe some other applications are also
> suffering from this behaviour. Unfortunatly i cant help testing, because i dont
> have an account right now.
> But still, this issue only seems to affect european players
> 

I live in the states and I have this problem, so this does not just affect
European players.