wine users - Feb 2009 - Frequent "Out of memory" issues with DX9 games under Gentoo

Since I switched to Gentoo Linux, I have had multiple issues of DX9 games
crashing after about 15-20 minutes of playing because of "out of
memory" issues. I do not recall having so many problems with that when I
was running Wine under Ubuntu.

My config:
Q6600
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Gentoo X64
Latest wine-git as of Feb 8 2009

I have reported one of them as a bug:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17140

but after trying some other games (the Witcher and Dark Messiah of might and
magic for example) and seeing that it seems recurrent, I am wondering if
something is wrong with my configuration and I would like to have some input
from you guys. I have also read this :
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Debugging_Wine#Out_of_Memory , but since I am
not a developer I am not sure how to "cure" my wine installation.

Here is a tailed console output for Dark messiah of MM, if it can be useful
anyhow: http://pastebin.ca/1331335 . If you have any suggestions of things to
try / test / report, please tell me.

Thanks!

> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17140
>
> but after trying some other games (the Witcher and Dark Messiah of might
and magic for example) and seeing that it seems recurrent, I am wondering if
something is wrong with my configuration and I would like to have some input
from you guys. I have also read this :
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Debugging_Wine#Out_of_Memory , but since I am
not a developer I am not sure how to "cure" my wine installation.
>
This problem looks to be out of video memory and not system ram.

John

Basically you are hitting Wine its virtual memory issues. Try to limit the
amount of video memory in the registry to 128MB or so for now. Further there is
possibly some Nvidia bug around related to this but I haven't heard back
from NV about this yet.