[Bug 29582] Star Wars Battlefront (I and II) "Loading" screen very slow.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29582

--- Comment #4 from Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox.com> 2012-01-14 01:49:07 CST ---
well, it would appear that I'm wrong about the call the call to SetFilePointer
-- it returned zero because that was the low-order of the file pointer position
(oops).  Either way, the app definitely enters a race condition of some sort. 
In another sample, I found a thread spinning calling WaitForSingleObject on a
semaphore followed by ReleaseSemaphore on that same handle for about a solid
second.  Isolating the root cause (from Wine's end of it) of this race
condition looks pretty difficult.

Also, I was slightly off on my numbers.  My hack only reduced load time by
about 45%.  Normally it takes about 80 seconds to load and the hack reduced it
to 45 seconds.  Setting the misbehaving thread's priority lower doesn't help
because that thread appears to be what opens the data files (that are
"loaded"), even though it passes those handles off to another thread to
actually read them (strange).  It appears to be the coordination between those
two threads that's going awry.

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