[Bug 24505] Plants vs Zombies: Low FPS on seeds menu

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24505

--- Comment #23 from Guilherme S. <oguilherme at protonmail.com> ---
Funny thing... So, it turns out that is not even necessary to download the
patched executable from GameCopyWorld to achieve better performance.

The original "PlantsVsZombies.exe" (from Steam), already packs this "patched"
binary inside itself. They're not exactly the same, however. The one from
GameCopyWorld definitely removes some extra DRM stuff, such as Steam API
integration.

Anyway, once you launch the game using the original executable, it unpacks and
runs this new executable called "popcapgame1.exe", located on
C:\ProgramData\PopCap Games\PlantsVsZombies\.

However, the original "PlantsVsZombies.exe" doesn't stop running, since it's
probably doing a lot of DRM-related checks in background and communicating back
and forth with "popcapgame1.exe", thus hurting the game's performance (I'm
guessing).

Anyway, if you copy this "popcapgame1.exe" executable and use it as a
replacement for the original "PlantsVsZombies.exe", the performance hit is
_much less_ severe. And this was observed by me while playing on both Windows
10 and Arch Linux.

So maybe this issue isn't exclusive to Wine...?

It would be great if more people were able to reproduce and confirm everything
I said, in order for this bug to be finally closed.

Regards

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