hi all I read that programs shouldn't run much slower than they do in windows, but mIRC certainly does for me... in windows, updating a screen-worth of information goes relatively quickly, but when done in wine, it takes longer. I looked at `top`, and found that wine was using about 1.5x the amount of CPU that mIRC would in widows (nothing else running in wine), and the X server was taking about the same amount again... is it usual for X to use a lot, or could I have config errors, or is it something that could be a bug? also with mIRC, most of the config files are loaded, but one (and maybe others that I haven't noticed, but as far as I can tell it gets the rest), control.ini, is not, nor does it get saved to disk. it does work in windows. are there settings I could look into in wine config to make it more likely to load? (like maybe if mIRC has a different internal capitalization of the file name, or it expects file access flags or something, I dunno) third part, trying to load the help files (windows format, .hlp) doesn't do anything, I'm assuming because wine isn't ready to load them... are there tools readily available to load them? or just as good, to convert .hlp to some other format I can make use of? since I'm on a low-end system (p200, anyone?), are there special options I can use to tell wine to take it easy on the system? I currently have wine running with a non-windows setup, as a test, since using the windows partitions was a lot slower (for startup and running), and it worked, so I stuck with it. mIRC 6.03 wine 20030709 built from source on slackware 8.1/9.0 (started with 8.1 packages, some are 9.0) the windows I was using is a Win ME install, kept up to date with latest patches and all. I don't want to d/l the binary package, it's a bit huge for my dial-up, but if there was a file with the compile options and list of other software linked in, I'd probably use that TIA Adam seemingly relevant excepts from wine.conf (unrelated config and comments removed for bandwidth-saving reasons): [wine] "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink" [DllOverrides] "*" = "builtin, native, so" ;<--no other settings here [x11drv] "AllocSystemColors" = "100" "PrivateColorMap" = "N" "PerfectGraphics" = "N" ;;"ScreenDepth" = "16" ;;"Display" = ":0.0" "Managed" = "Y" "Desktop" = "N" "UseDGA" = "Y" "UseXShm" = "Y" "DXGrab" = "N" "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N" "TextCP" = "0" ;; "XVideoPort" = "43" ;;"Synchronous" = "Y" [Tweak.Layout] "WineLook" = "Win98" -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
