[Bug 29168] Star Wars: The Old Republic game client hangs at intro splash

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Tue Jul 10 19:31:43 CDT 2012


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168

--- Comment #232 from Xolotl Loki <xoloki at gmail.com> 2012-07-10 19:31:43 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #223)
> 
> Does anyone get good (i.e. comparable to Windows on same hardware) framerates
> in PvP?
>

I fixed this today, and it had nothing to do with wine.  

The culprit was an interaction between swtor.exe, my CPU, and Linux.  My CPU
allows the OS to scale down the CPU frequency during low loads.  For some
reason, swtor.exe convinced the OS it didn't need full power, so the OS left
all cores idling at 800 MHz (3GHz CPU).  

This didn't happen with WoW, though I do remember occasional slowdowns that
might have been freq scaling.  

The solution was to turn off "Cool and Quiet" in the BIOS, and lock all cores
at 3 GHz.  Hopefully this will not burn out my CPU, but the system is 3 years
old so whatever.

Not sure if XP did a better job of scaling the CPU, or if it just didn't bother
trying.  But I really don't care, because now I can PvP without booting into XP
:)

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