wine users - Sep 2010 - Wine performance drops hard on popup notification

Ubuntu 10.4 32bit
I've tried Ubuntu proprietary drivers, and latest Nvidia drivers 256.53 or
something. (gpu = evga 8600 gts 256mb)
Wine versions 1.2 and up all have my issue

When I run Steam games windowed or fullscreened, they run amazing. Until I get a
skype/pidgin/rythmbox/email notification popup, at which point the steam app
drops dramatically in performance. (1 different frame every 10 seconds)
I've installed various things via wine tricks, and things just don't
seem to fix it.
I'm curious if this is a common issue, or better yet is a quick fix
available?

(steam isn't effected, but the games CSS/TF2/GMOD)

On 12/09/2010, at 4:55, "RemiParks" <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> Ubuntu 10.4 32bit
> I've tried Ubuntu proprietary drivers, and latest Nvidia drivers 256.53
or something. (gpu = evga 8600 gts 256mb)
> Wine versions 1.2 and up all have my issue
> 
> When I run Steam games windowed or fullscreened, they run amazing. Until I
get a skype/pidgin/rythmbox/email notification popup, at which point the steam
app drops dramatically in performance. (1 different frame every 10 seconds)
> I've installed various things via wine tricks, and things just
don't seem to fix it.
> I'm curious if this is a common issue, or better yet is a quick fix
available?
> 
> (steam isn't effected, but the games CSS/TF2/GMOD)
> 
This hasn't been an issue for a very long time.  At least a year, maybe
longer.  Skype uses a different overlay to everything else (libnotify) as well
so the problem is likely X related.

If you're playing a native 3d game do you get the same slowdown?

Not at all, I run RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstein) flawlessly under the
native linux build.
Another thing, the slow down can also be caused by alt+tabing (I only alt+tab
when windowed) but yeah only happens under Wine.