wine users - Jan 2009 - Football Manager 2007 running very slowly

Hi all,

I have a problem running Football Manager 2007.

The game's match mode consists of an almost full-screen, almost-2D animation
of the match. 10-15mins into the game this animation slows down to the point of
making the game unplayable.

The specs of my machine are above the requirements by a factor of 3-5 and so far
I have been unable to identify any hardware bottlenecks. The only thing that
does help is to suspend the animation for a while by bringing out another game
window (e.g. tactics) and then returning. The improvement, if any, lasts for 10
min tops.

I'm using wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks in advance,

vHF
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> I'm using wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.10.

The problem remains after upgrade to 1.0.12.

vHF[/quote]

Does the problem happen with the free demo at
http://www.gamershell.com/download_15877.shtml ?

If so, can you give a simple recipe to reproduce?  Ideally
it would involve as few mouse clicks as possible.

This might be a memory leak or something...