I have searched the forums and cant seem to find an answer. I have noticed that when i run games and programs under wine its only useing 1 core. While when i run native Linux apps they use both cores. Also the games and programs that i am running under wine use both cores when run under windows. Is this a bug, or maybe just something i dont have setup correcly on my computer. Computer specs. 4600+ AMD dual core. 2gig RAM 160gig sata II HD Geforce 8800GT video card. Ubuntu 8.04
dabbill wrote:> I have searched the forums and cant seem to find an answer. I have noticed that when i run games and programs under wine its only useing 1 core. While when i run native Linux apps they use both cores. Also the games and programs that i am running under wine use both cores when run under windows. Is this a bug, or maybe just something i dont have setup correcly on my computer. > > Computer specs. > 4600+ AMD dual core. > 2gig RAM > 160gig sata II HD > Geforce 8800GT video card. > Ubuntu 8.04Wine's GUI part is single-threaded. So yeah it will use only one CPU.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:54 AM, dabbill <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I have searched the forums and cant seem to find an answer. I have noticed that when i run games and programs under wine its only useing 1 core. While when i run native Linux apps they use both cores. Also the games and programs that i am running under wine use both cores when run under windows. Is this a bug, or maybe just something i dont have setup correcly on my computer. > > Computer specs. > 4600+ AMD dual core. > 2gig RAM > 160gig sata II HD > Geforce 8800GT video card. > Ubuntu 8.04 > > > > > >What apps in particular aren't using dual cores?
The main one i notice it on is World of Warcraft. Also noticed when i am installing stuff with wine it only uses 1 core.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, dabbill <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> The main one i notice it on is World of Warcraft. Also noticed when i am installing stuff with wine it only uses 1 core. > > > > > >http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674
I notice the CPU almost maxed on World of Warctaft as well, however I am not sure there is much we can do about it. For what it is worth I run World of Warcraft on FreeBSD 7, it works really well. I just wish we could boost fps a little bit. Sam Fourman Jr.
Thanks, that makes me feel some what better that it is a known bug. Havent really tried any other games cause i cant get that one to play right. Now that i know its a bug i might give some other games a try.
dabbill wrote:> I have searched the forums and cant seem to find an answer. I have noticed that when i run games and programs under wine its only useing 1 core. While when i run native Linux apps they use both cores. Also the games and programs that i am running under wine use both cores when run under windows. Is this a bug, or maybe just something i dont have setup correcly on my computer. > > Computer specs. > 4600+ AMD dual core. > 2gig RAM > 160gig sata II HD > Geforce 8800GT video card. > Ubuntu 8.04 > >It works the same way on an Intel Mac, which is good when a program decides that it 'needs' all of one of the cores. I've had problems with Windows on a Dual Core appearing like it was locked up. Got the Task Manager to run and one process was consuming 99% of the CPU. I hope that Wine can be rewritten to use n-1 cores, which will leave at least one core 'open' in case of a runaway process. James McKenzie