wine users - Jun 2008 - Wine + World of Warcraft = video lag every 12 seconds

Ok my problem like the title says is, I have video lag every 11~13 seconds
during 1 seconds, this happens in OpenGl or D3d mode, it isn't a sound,
problem even with the sound deactivated the problem persist, I have tested in
the following configurations:

1-
Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2 Gb RAM Corsair, Geforce 8800 GT, Sata 2 Hard
disk.
SO: Archlinux kernel 2.6.25, Nvidia driver 173.14.05.

2- 
Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 4200+, 1 Gb RAM, Geforce 6800 GT, Ide Hard disk
SO: Mint Linux kernel 2.6.25, Nvidia driver 173.14.05.

The desktop manager and window manager I tested are: Enlightenment17, Fluxbox,
Xfce, KDE, in both systems

Also I have test with others kernels and nvidia drivers versions, but with the
same result, like I said, everything else is ok, the video render is fast, fast
game load, good sound, but every 12 seconds I have 1 video lag seconds, like a
clock.

Long time ago, I didn't have this problem with a previous version of win, I
thing the 0.56 brought this problem, but not sure.

I have tried every suggestion from pages like
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine,
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine, etc, but without success.


Now a detailed program behavior:

when it enters at the login screen, everything is ok, any problem there, but
when you log on, the problem begins in the character selection screen, and the
problem continues when you enter the world.

The code it dropped is:

Code:
Faxanadu$ wine /mnt/win/games/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe
-openglfixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cb70000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 11
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cb70000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eda4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ec94,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f2c8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f42c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f5a8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f5a0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f528,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f518,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f000,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f144,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000):
STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000):
STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x37402bc4) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x20024, 0x134aa8): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32dc5c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:imm:ImmAssociateContextEx (0x20024, (nil), 16): stub
Faxanadu$





Another thing, other games like for example "Duke Nukem - Manhattan
Project" work all fine.

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:16:03 -0500
"Faxanadu" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> Long time ago, I didn't have this problem with a previous version of
win, I thing the 0.56 brought this problem, but not sure.
> 
> I have tried every suggestion from pages like
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine,
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine, etc, but without success.
perhaps run a regression test between 0.9.55 and 0.9.56 to check which patch
caused it.


-- 
Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
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Faxanadu wrote:
> Ok my problem like the title says is, I have video lag every 11~13 seconds
during 1 seconds, this happens in OpenGl or D3d mode, it isn't a sound,
problem even with the sound deactivated the problem persist, I have tested in
the following configurations:
> 

Sounds like the same scheduler issue I was having introduced in 2.6.24. Try put
this in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/


Code:
kernel.sched_features=21
kernel.sched_batch_wakeup_granularity_ns=25000000
kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=4000000




and then run sysctl -p

These options are not available unless "Kernel debugging"
(CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL) and "Collect sheduler debugging info"
(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) in "Kernel hacking" are enabled  so you most
likely need to recompile.

That's it, loltsy is right, it is a schedule problem, I did the changes, and
all works fine.

Lol, now i have to build personalized kernel versions only to get some programs
work, just like old times...