wine users - May 2005 - WINE on FreeBSD: StarCraft 'stuttering'

Hello list and FreeBSD maintainer,

I -really- appreciate the fact that the major threading issues with FreeBSD 
and WINE have been resolved. I'd hate to see FreeBSD lose an application
with
such great potential. 

Anyway, I've recently taken an interest in WINE for use with gaming on
FreeBSD
(once again). I managed to get StarCraft installed with it and running. 
However, there's a slight problem. 

The game does not run completely smoothly. For example, when you move the 
cursor, it will move smoothly for about 2 seconds and there will be a slight 
"pulse" or a "pause" in movement for maybe a fraction of a
second, and then
the mouse will move normally again. Another 2 or so seconds, another pulse, 
etc. However, the sound does not skip, and my machine should have plenty of 
resources to run the game.

Watching WINE and Xorg running in 'top' they barely even break 10%
usage.

This issue renders the game unplayable on FreeBSD.

However, OpenGL applications don't seem to be affected. I've used WINE
on
FreeBSD to play both Max Payne and Half-Life for quite some time without any 
major problems. 

I'm running wine-20050419 on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with an nVidia GeForce 4 MX
440 and the official nVidia drivers (1.0.7174) for FreeBSD under Xorg 6.8.2. 
This issue is not new and has been around for quite some time, but for 
whatever reason it never donned on me to report it.

Do any of you have any insight on what might be causing this to occur?

Thanks,
-- 
Travis Poppe
IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net

Hello list and FreeBSD maintainer,

I must apologize for my last e-mail because I didn't actually go into 
gameplay, I just assumed the cursor would do the same thing while actually 
playing the game (because that's the way it had behaved in the past). 

When going into an actual game, it seems to clear up and no longer stutters. 
However, it still would be nice if someone were able to point out why it does 
it in the first place.

Thanks again,
-- 
Travis Poppe
IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net

On Mon, 16 May 2005 23:01:06 -0700, Travis Poppe wrote:
> I -really- appreciate the fact that the major threading issues with FreeBSD
> and WINE have been resolved. I'd hate to see FreeBSD lose an
application with
> such great potential
Hi,

As far as I'm aware no issues have been resolved on FreeBSD: there are
still problems with the threading on this platform. At least I've never
seen any patches to fix this (by doing what Alexandre did for Linux and
moving Win32 threads on top of pthreads).

thanks -mike