wine users - Feb 2009 - Poor performance in Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Hi,

So I'm going to be upfront about this:  I don't know how to fix this
problem or even who to talk to.  I've tried the JK community, #winehq, #ati,
and even the ATI forums, but no there was help to be offered.

Here's the problem...
Playing Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=122) on
Wine, I get such horrid framerates that the game is unplayable.  In the demo
version and 1.0, the game runs choppy all of the time.  With the 1.01 update, it
runs perfectly fine as long as nothing 2D is being drawing on the HUD.  But as
soon as I enable the overlay map or the health and ammo displays, it drops to
about 8 FPS.  The game always worked fine on this computer with Windows XP, and
I have other, newer games which run just fine on Wine.

I've talked with people in the JK community and with someone in #winehq who
have played JK on Wine, and they didn't experience any problems whatsoever. 
They were also using NVidia cards.  Unfortunately since I'm on a laptop,
replacing the video card is not an option for me, and neither is buying a new
computer.

I'm on Arch Linux, kernel26 2.6.28.2
Wine 1.1.14
Catalyst driver 9.1
Intel Pentium M 2.0GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 256MB
1024MB DDRII RAM

Please help?  I miss my all-time favorite game!
Thanks!

cmtptr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I'm going to be upfront about this:  I don't know how to fix
this problem or even who to talk to.  I've tried the JK community, #winehq,
#ati, and even the ATI forums, but no there was help to be offered.
> 
> Here's the problem...
> Playing Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=122) on
Wine, I get such horrid framerates that the game is unplayable.  In the demo
version and 1.0, the game runs choppy all of the time.  With the 1.01 update, it
runs perfectly fine as long as nothing 2D is being drawing on the HUD.  But as
soon as I enable the overlay map or the health and ammo displays, it drops to
about 8 FPS.  The game always worked fine on this computer with Windows XP, and
I have other, newer games which run just fine on Wine.
> 
> I've talked with people in the JK community and with someone in #winehq
who have played JK on Wine, and they didn't experience any problems
whatsoever.  They were also using NVidia cards.  Unfortunately since I'm on
a laptop, replacing the video card is not an option for me, and neither is
buying a new computer.
> 
> I'm on Arch Linux, kernel26 2.6.28.2
> Wine 1.1.14
> Catalyst driver 9.1
> Intel Pentium M 2.0GHz
> ATI Mobility Radeon X700 256MB
> 1024MB DDRII RAM
> 
> Please help?  I miss my all-time favorite game!
> Thanks!

Sadly, the solution ultimately lays with your choice of video card.   I'm
the maintainer of this app on the AppDB and I have known ati users who have
tried to play this game for some time, they have also been frustrated but have
ultimately just sworn off ati and gone nvidia.

I get a good framerate at 1680x1250 with my NV 8800GTS.