[Wine] Re: Warcraft 2 BNE - performance problem...

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello again!

> Well I tried disabling sound - still a bit choppy (don't get me wrong -
> game is playable - but is much slower then on windos), I tried playing
> both windowed and fullscreen version - no change. Meaby I should put
> Riva TNT inside my PC(I heard that  older cards have no problem running
> ddraw games)?
>

Your card should be okay. To use the TNT card, you've to downgrade your
NVidia-driver. Older versions of wine could use DGA to directly draw to
the video hardware -- which was very fast for games like warcraft2 and
starcraft. But you had to run your app as root to be able to use this
interface. Today DGA isn't supported by wine anymore and it is also an
obsoleted X-extension. The plan is to create some kind of DIB-engine.
Read more about it here [1]. At [2] are reports about  sound problems
in W2 BNE.

Did you disable sound in winecfg or in WarCraftII? I'd suggest to
disable it in winecfg (just uncheck every box)

Do you use RenderAccel? If not, open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add it
to section "device"

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
        Option "RenderAccel" "True"
EndSection


Ciao,

Olaf

[1] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421
[2] http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=592
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