[Bug 11674] Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674

--- Comment #250 from Samuel Nelson <valczir.darkvein at gmail.com> 2012-10-17 08:13:42 CDT ---
Nope, I'm not using ae's altered files.

I will admit, my tests are not scientific.  There's every chance that I'm
wrong, but I haven't had enough time yet to do a thorough test.  Most of the
time, I use the Shatterer as my benchmark, and that requires a pretty long
period of time to test with.  So honestly, I can't even be sure that the
threaded optimisations setting is being applied - I may just be fooling myself
into thinking that it performs better.

However, my experience in lightly populated (but still populated) areas is:
without the LD_PRELOAD and __GL_THREADED_OPTIMISATIONS options, I'm sitting at
25-30 FPS during normal exploration, 20-25 during small fights, and there are
many drops to 16 FPS during fights in which there are at least a few other
people.  With those options, I've got the same 25-30 FPS during normal
exploration, but small fights don't have any effect on performance, and the
lowest I see it drop to for even a small amount of time around a few other
people is 20 FPS.

My specs, for comparison:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965 (currently running at 3.6 GHz)
RAM: 16GB DDR 1600
GPU: eVGA GTX 460 (it's the 2Win, but I'm not making use of SLI)
OS: Funtoo amd64
Wine Version: roughly 1.5.13 - I did a git clone from around the first release
of 1.5.13, and I seem to get slightly more stable performance on that version. 
Plus, the fix for the launcher transparency worked great when it was first
added to git, but a more recent commit (possibly unrelated) makes my
xorg-server go nuts and use 100% CPU, causing everything on that display to
respond very slowly to user input (I'm planning to make a bug report if/when I
can confirm that it's not just my settings acting up somewhere).

If I get a chance, I'll run with the zerg tonight.  There are usually at least
a couple of fights during the zerg that cause my performance to drop to 10 FPS
(assuming a very high number of people are in the zerg).  And I'll start the
game in a blank X session - both to reduce any differences there might be
between runs and to help make sure that those options are being applied.

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