Wine 0.9.44 slower than 0.9.2X ?

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oldefortran · Post by **oldefortran** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:40 am

Is it just me that finds heroes of might and magic to run slower in wine 0.9.44 than in version 0.9.29 (I think it was when they got it running real fast).

StifflerStealth · Post by **StifflerStealth** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:35 pm

It's not just you. A lot of people experience regressions with each new version of WINE, i.e. games that worked before, no longer work with newer versions. It seems like the more they try to fix, the more they break. If you don't use WINE for anything else, I would suggest masking off the new versions and installing an older version that worked faster for you.

n19i · Post by **n19i** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:51 pm

Wine 0.9.4X are really weird... first thing it doesn't works properly with multiple desktops, at least when I'm running Warcraft 3. If I try to change the desktop, it will steal focus and switch back. Also there are some random lockups that are pretty annoying, I'm thinking of going back to 0.9.40 or 0.9.39

Cereza · Post by **Cereza** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:15 am

n19i wrote:Wine 0.9.4X are really weird... first thing it doesn't works properly with multiple desktops, at least when I'm running Warcraft 3. If I try to change the desktop, it will steal focus and switch back. Also there are some random lockups that are pretty annoying, I'm thinking of going back to 0.9.40 or 0.9.39

I always use a second X session with a light wm to play any games. In this way I don't have focus problems or the tipical resolution problems when using fullscreen games.

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:37 am

guess WINE is getting more windows-like

estel · Post by **estel** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:39 pm

So is that a good thing or a bad thing?

killertux · Post by **killertux** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:10 pm

If it's slower on newer Wine version then it could be regression and therefore regression test would be needed.
But sure slowness could be just "feature" unless the difference in speed is big.

StinkingMonkey · Post by **StinkingMonkey** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:57 am

n19i wrote:Wine 0.9.4X are really weird... first thing it doesn't works properly with multiple desktops, at least when I'm running Warcraft 3. If I try to change the desktop, it will steal focus and switch back. Also there are some random lockups that are pretty annoying, I'm thinking of going back to 0.9.40 or 0.9.39

Are you using e17 by any chance ? , i wasn't sure if it was e17 that was causing focus to be lost or wine, but may well be wine, they did mention in patch notes that they had resolved something to do with focus but the problem persists, heres hoping it gets sorted, love switching desktops whilst playing.

n19i · Post by **n19i** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:11 am

StinkingMonkey wrote:
n19i wrote:Wine 0.9.4X are really weird... first thing it doesn't works properly with multiple desktops, at least when I'm running Warcraft 3. If I try to change the desktop, it will steal focus and switch back. Also there are some random lockups that are pretty annoying, I'm thinking of going back to 0.9.40 or 0.9.39
Are you using e17 by any chance ? , i wasn't sure if it was e17 that was causing focus to be lost or wine, but may well be wine, they did mention in patch notes that they had resolved something to do with focus but the problem persists, heres hoping it gets sorted, love switching desktops whilst playing.

No, I'm using KDE.. Back when I used e17, switching desktops was just wonderful, used to work like a charm. Then I changed to KDE due to it's facilities (yeah I'm lazy [not that much, I'm using Gentoo after all]), and I could still switch desktops, but E17 felt more stable (

) while doing so. With the latest versions of Wine, it just won't work. So I'm using the last stable (0.9.39 I think), and it's fine.

kusuriya · Post by **kusuriya** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:03 pm

Yah I know what your talking about.. 43 was faster for WoW and C&C3 and it actually closed proporly, 44 when program sends wmclose or wmquit (the signals for windows to close the window) wineserver doenst seem to take the clue and it leaves the window up and running till you issue a killall -9 wow or a wineserver -k... its a minor nussiance but still.

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:33 am

kusuriya wrote:Yah I know what your talking about.. 43 was faster for WoW and C&C3 and it actually closed proporly, 44 when program sends wmclose or wmquit (the signals for windows to close the window) wineserver doenst seem to take the clue and it leaves the window up and running till you issue a killall -9 wow or a wineserver -k... its a minor nussiance but still.

Patch is in git now. Bug will be definitelly fixed in 0.9.46

bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9479

shazeal · Post by **shazeal** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:17 am

n19i wrote:Wine 0.9.4X are really weird... first thing it doesn't works properly with multiple desktops, at least when I'm running Warcraft 3. If I try to change the desktop, it will steal focus and switch back. Also there are some random lockups that are pretty annoying, I'm thinking of going back to 0.9.40 or 0.9.39

I build from GIT to avoid getting stuck on a specific version, this bug was introduces ages ago and the bug still has not been assigned. However you can just apply this patch to any new version to make it act like it used to.

Code: Select all

diff --git a/dlls/winex11.drv/event.c b/dlls/winex11.drv/event.c
index aad09c6..1f9d2a9 100644 (file)
--- a/dlls/winex11.drv/event.c
+++ b/dlls/winex11.drv/event.c
@@ -570,8 +570,8 @@ static void EVENT_FocusOut( HWND hwnd, XEvent *xev )
            case we don't have to change the foreground window to 0 */
         if (hwnd == GetForegroundWindow())
         {
-            TRACE( "lost focus, setting fg to desktop\n" );
-            SetForegroundWindow( GetDesktopWindow() );
+            TRACE( "lost focus, setting fg to 0\n" );
+            SetForegroundWindow( 0 );
         }
     }
 }

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