hi, I posted about a week ago, when i had updated to wine1.2-rc6. I had warned that i had seen regressions in wine. This applied to Commercial VST instruments that i have been using in linux for about 2 years. At first, when using Jack-audio-connection kit (after the upgrade) i began to notice certain plugins were now causing Xruns, when they started up. this never used to happen. so i posted. Now the situation is even worse. In particular, a plugin i had mentioned before Native Instruments FM8, is now causing xruns whenever i am switching to a new preset - this makes it now useless!! It is a sound app and you can't have it causing audio glitches/xruns. I don't know what has changed in Wine recently, but what i do know is that i posted before and didn't get a single response on the issue, and now it is worse. - i wonder if i had been posting about a game, if the result would have been the same? ;) I not only did a fresh Wine install, but also I have re-installed linux (i was planning to anyway). and this problem is still present. Clearly, it must be a regression in Wine..... I don't play video games in wine, frankly, i don't see the point in hacking a game to run under linux at the cost of 30% fps drop in performance. Now, i didn't get a single reply with to my problem, which is ridiculous when you watch this list filled with replies on how to make some stupid game half-work with it's crappiest "low as possible" GFX settings. This is ironic, when you consider That there are more Linux Distro's geared towards Pro-audio (most of which are using Wineasio) then there ever will be linux gaming distro's. A lot of linux musicians require wine, as Linux doesn't exaclty have a lot of Pro - type plugins and yet VST support hasn't changed much, and i think is actually getting worse. (it's frustrating). I use wine for Photoshop, but mostly for VSTs using WineASIO + jack. For the latter, i would be more than willing to give any information needed to sort out some of these new issues, that are slowly ruining my Pro-audio setup. something new in wine is causing the problem, i don't know how to get to the bottom of it. but i am more than willing to help and provide any information that might be useful, in fixing these issues. I just need to know how to go about it, properly. sorry, if i come off a bit frustrated. But man, to have something work well for so long, and then have it be absolutely useless....it's a real hard one...not to mention that i use this setup in live shows (music/band). Lastly, this is important to me becuase i am running a VST hardware platform, and if wine goes to crap for my Commercial VST instruments, There won't be any point in me using it. to the point, that i might as well just use OSX - which has way more overhead, and doesn't achieve as low of latency on my hardware :( thanx jordan
