wine users - Aug 2009 - help poor performance on ubuntu jaunty

Hi, I'm running bricscad V9 (CAD application) under wine-1.1.28. All
installation and functionality is OK, but performance is really poor with
respect to the same app. on the same machine under Windows XP.

So I think it's wine's fault. I checked for performance issues on the
www, but I found no help. I also noticed the claim that NO performance fall-off
should be expected and this is encouraging.

Where's the point? Direct rendering works OK for LINUX. Anyway:

?? glxinfo|grep rendering

gives:

? get fences failed: -1
? param: 6, val: 0
? direct rendering: Yes

Graphic card is Intel GMA915

Thanks for any help,
Nicola







      
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> Hi, I'm running bricscad V9 (CAD application) under wine-1.1.28. All
installation and functionality is OK, but performance is really poor with
respect to the same app. on the same machine under Windows XP.
>
> So I think it's wine's fault. I checked for performance issues on
the www, but I found no help. I also noticed the claim that NO performance
fall-off should be expected and this is encouraging.
>
> Where's the point? Direct rendering works OK for LINUX. Anyway:
>
> ?? glxinfo|grep rendering
>
> gives:
>
> ? get fences failed: -1
> ? param: 6, val: 0
> ? direct rendering: Yes
>
> Graphic card is Intel GMA915
Intel/ATI cards are poorly supported under Linux. Use nVidia cards if possible

Nicola Cocca wrote:
> OK, I'll remember when I change the hardware...
> But I'm not sure that the trouble was with the way Linux handle the
card. Indeed all linux native apps work perfectly and quickly.
You sure any of them do same nasty things as windows programs do?


Nicola Cocca wrote:
> 
> glxinfo|grep rendering
> gives:
>   get fences failed: -1
>   param: 6, val: 0
>   direct rendering: Yes
> 
This is bug in your video drivers. Use google to search for solutions. It has
nothing to do with Wine. You can verify that with 'glxgears'. As-is
you'll get horrid performance (< 100 FPS).

>--- Sab 29/8/09, Fr?d?ric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> ha
scritto:
>
>Da: Fr?d?ric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com>
>Oggetto: Re: [Wine] help poor performance on ubuntu jaunty
>A: "Nicola Cocca" <nicocca2 at yahoo.it>
>Cc: wine-users at winehq.org
>Data: Sabato 29 agosto 2009, 12:37
>
>> Hi, I'm running bricscad V9 (CAD application) under wine-1.1.28.
All installation and functionality is OK, but performance is really poor with
respect to the same app. on the same machine under Windows XP.
>>
>> So I think it's wine's fault. I checked for performance issues
on the www, but I found no help. I also noticed the claim that NO performance
fall-off should be expected and this is encouraging.
>>
>> Where's the point? Direct rendering works OK for LINUX. Anyway:
>>
>> ?? glxinfo|grep rendering
>>
>> gives:
>>
>> ? get fences failed: -1
>> ? param: 6, val: 0
>> ? direct rendering: Yes
>>
>> Graphic card is Intel GMA915
>
>Intel/ATI cards are poorly supported under Linux. Use nVidia cards if
possible
>
>
>
>      
Please bottom post in messages on the Wine Mailing list, it is our convention.
On Saturday, August 29, 2009 Nicola Cocca wrote:
>
>OK, I'll remember when I change the hardware...
>But I'm not sure that the trouble was with the way Linux handle the
card. Indeed all linux native apps work perfectly and quickly.
>
>Just wine is slow. 
>
Wine is very hard on drivers and hardware.  My MacBookPro always turns its fans
on when running Wine.  Most Mac programs, except games do not.

Poorly written drivers will be exposed for what they are under Wine as well. 
AMD is trying to fix this and one of their developers is lurking in the
developer and user mailing lists to discover problems that we are experiencing
with their products.  Please post the following (if you have not done so
already):

Program you are trying to run to include any patches applied)
ATI card you are using, memory size and version of AMD/ATI driver and whether it
is open-source or obtained from AMD.
Version of Wine you are using.
Any patches applied to Wine to help with video problems.
Version and distribution of Linux you are using.
Any patches applied to Linux to attempt to resolve video problems including
special kernel builds.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

>bye
>Nicola
>