[Wine] Wine "pausing" applications ?!

[James McKenzie]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nihilist <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> your post was most useful! When I tried to run Diablo II executable from shell, it reports
> as following:
>
> ~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Diablo II$ wine game.exe -window
> fixme:advapi:GetCurrentHwProfileA (0x33fba8) semi-stub
> fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
> fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x134a58, filter=0xf7e9b4,flags=0x00000001) returns a fake device notification handle!
> fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
> fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
>
> While playing I had the system monitor open next to the game window: When it freezes,
> the "wineserver.exe" consumes 100% CPU (is it normal that it uses around 250 MiB ?)

Yes, wineserver does use that amount of space.

Did you try what I suggested in my last message to see if that helps
eliminate/minimize the 'pauses'?

James