[Wine]Wine 2-D acceleration

[Duane Clark]

The MCP wrote:
> A few days ago I asked if wine applications normally run morbidly slow,
> and was told definetly not. I got a suggestion that something is wrong
> with my 2-D acceleration, but at that point the whole discussion forked
> into WINE and games and whether or not it hurts linux...
> 

"Definitely not" is incorrect. Most things run at normal/fast speeds, 
but some things do indeed run morbidly slow. It really is just 
application dependent. Back several years ago, when much lower level 
(drawing?) code was moved into the Wine server, one of my electronic 
design packages slowed down dramatically when trying to drag large 
objects. And this same thing might be affecting the games you are trying.

This is apparently due to the amount of time taken for server calls. At 
the time, Transgaming complained quite a bit about the severe hit some 
of their games took due to this. I would not be surprised if they backed 
out those changes, though I don't actually know whether they did. Have 
you tried WineX?

Since my application is still very slow, it is apparent that the 
inefficiencies are still there in the regular Wine (I rarely use the 
particular application anymore). Wine could really use someone with some 
serious programming skills to delve into performance bottlenecks. This 
is one of disadvantages of the very small team working on Wine, and in 
particular, the extremely small number of people working on Wine with 
that particular skill set.