Optomising WINE?

Plasma iamplasma at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 3 17:28:27 CST 2001


moonie wrote:

> Plasma wrote:
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me, or point me in the direction to find, information on
>> speeding up WINE if possible (especially OpenGL)?  I'm sure there must be
>> some way that I can do it.
>> 
>> While I'm willing to accept it if it is not possible (heck, WINE is
>> incredibly good for alpha software doing what it is doing), programs
>> under WINE tend to be too slow for practical use, so any help on fixing
>> this would be much appreciated.
> 
> Don't run it on a slow machine, have plenty of RAM, and use a light
> window manager (not KDE or Gnome).  I have a Duron 750 at 966 (7X138) with
> 640MB RAM and Wine was a little slow and unstable in KDE and Gnome, runs
> great in IceWM.
> 
> moonie ;)

Thanx, running my WINE apps in IceWM has at least doubled their speed, 
almost tripled even (at least for HalfLife).



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