On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 17:55:23 +0000, "L. Rahyen" <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday January 1 2007 16:55, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > As a side question, do you have any tips for speeding Heroes up under wine? > > In fact it is already speeded up a lot. Under old Wine it was terribly slow > even with 1.4 Ghz Sempron! Now most games which uses DIB (including Heroes 3) > works fine on most computers. But even now DIB is slower than under > windows... There some technical reasons for that; however it is possible to > improve performance farther. But for now it is nice to see that such games > are playable on most hardware. > If computer is very old (200-300 Mhz for example) then you will run into > troubles with performance and only real solution is to improve corresponding > Wine's code (or upgrade the hardware but this isn't "real solution" of > course). Yeah, the old machine was a dual PII running at 200-300Mhz. And I suspect that only one cpu is really used playing Heroes3. It seems something like 10 - 20 times slower under wine. However, that particular machine is getting near to retirement and we are only using it for Heroes, because my office is too crowded to hav two people playing hotseat. I will be moving shortly and have a lot more space in my office, and we will probably be getting another computer in the not too distant future, so I don't think Heroes3 will be a problem in the long term. Speed ups for some other games I would like to play under wine are still welcome though. Thanks for all of your help. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
