wine users - Nov 2009 - Supreme Lag

Hiya. I switched to Ubuntu a few days back, and have been adjusting to using the
Linux equivalents of Windows applications. However, as an aspiring game Dev,
there are certain applications which, while not having Ubuntu equivalents, are
still needed by me. My solution, of course, was WINE. I'd heard that WINE
runs .exes faster than XP, but I have been experiencing the opposite. WINE opens
the application okay, but when I want to run a test play of the game I'm
building, I get monstrous amounts of lag. There are also other strange issues (I
can't use the "clear" color in theSo, what's my best bet for
optimizing speed? Should I just create a windows partition, or can I get WINE to
work? Also, just a few pieces of background info:
My video card is:
Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
My Ubuntu is 9.10 (when I type 9.10, it feels like saying "divided by
zero")

Wine performance depends a lot on the app and in case of multimedia/apps games
the display drivers are even more important. Besides Nvidia most display drivers
are incomplete, buggy and slow in some cases. Since your GPU isn't that
power Windows might be quicker for you.

The only way to speed it up is likely to disable Compiz if you are using that
else you are more or less out of luck unless you put an Nvidia card in.

So, would purchasing and installing this video card would allow me to use the
application more or less flawlessly?
http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0291635[/url]

pikzilla,

As a fellow developer, I take special interest in your question.

Despite what you've heard, 3D and some 2D games are notoriously slower in
Wine.  The OpenGL-based games seem to do pretty good (Quake3 demo, Half-Life
1), but the DirectX based games (Half-Life2, TFC2) seem to have performance
AND compatibility issues, even with the fastest computers and the best video
cards.

The exe's that I've seen run faster are usually desktop applications
such as
Lotus Notes, but I've still had the same performance issues with desktop
applications such as Reaper that make extensive use of the sound card.

Is there a chance you -- as a developer -- can try to build a native linux
version of your games?  I actually get a better performance with games like
"YoFrankie!" in linux than I do in windows, but the game was
specifically
compiled to run in linux.

If not, you may be able to find pointers from companies such as
"Reaper"
that have gone out of their way to tweak compatibility with wine for the
Linux community, or the wine developers mailing list may have programming
pointers.  Good luck.

-Tres

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:41 PM, pikzilla <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hiya. I switched to Ubuntu a few days back, and have been adjusting to
> using the Linux equivalents of Windows applications. However, as an
aspiring
> game Dev, there are certain applications which, while not having Ubuntu
> equivalents, are still needed by me. My solution, of course, was WINE.
I'd
> heard that WINE runs .exes faster than XP, but I have been experiencing the
> opposite. WINE opens the application okay, but when I want to run a test
> play of the game I'm building, I get monstrous amounts of lag. There
are
> also other strange issues (I can't use the "clear" color in
theSo, what's my
> best bet for optimizing speed? Should I just create a windows partition, or
> can I get WINE to work? Also, just a few pieces of background info:
> My video card is:
> Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
> My Ubuntu is 9.10 (when I type 9.10, it feels like saying "divided by
> zero")
>
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
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Bleh; Sorry to take to long to reply. Unfortunately, the software I use
(Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer edition) has pretty much no native linux
compatability. Even if it did, while the test builds I ran would work better,
some of the other problems (mostly with the included sprite editor) within the
actual application would be present. Is there anything hardware or software wise
that I can do? I know that it's possible to run it flawlessly (I have a
friend on Ubuntu who does), so perhaps its more of a video card issue (I'm
on all-Intel hardware, with which I have had great struggles with, until the
9.10 update came out).