--- Christoph Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:57:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I've recently tried to play Heroes of Might and Magic IV under > Wine, > > which has very poor performance and this message it printed out > many, > > many times after the game is started: > > > > fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB > > copy > > assuming that this is the real problem for the poor performance you > might squeeze quite some speed out if you get rid of the FIXMEs by > redirecting the output to /dev/null. if there are really _lots_ of > errors like this it takes quite some time to render them depending on > your terminal.
Redirecting output to /dev/null doesn't buy any (noticeable) speed. I mentioned the message being repeated rather often as I suspect that the optimization the fixme is suggesting may be what is needed to speed up homm4, not that the printing of the message itself is slowing down the game. ;) > at least this reminds me, that i wanted to test homm3 with wine as > the native version no longer works with current > linux/glibc/64-bit/godknowswhy. Not surprising it is broken; I have the Linux version of Heavy Gear 2, and it won't run without pulling old versions of the libraries it needs (like freetype1) from a 32-bit system.... and even then--and also a couple of years ago running it on a newer 32-bit system--using the r300 DRI driver led to corrupted text... but that's getting way off topic and has nothing to do with using Wine or even running closed-source native Linux games... lol - Brian -------- Jen: Wings? I don't have wings! Kira: Of course not. You're a boy. - from "The Dark Crystal" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
