Wine Runs Super Slow

[squirrelplayingtag]

I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 and I did manage to get wine installed without an issue and did get steam installed but wine runs sooo slow. I type "winecfg" and it takes about 5 mins for the configuration window to appear. Also starting steam with wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe takes about 5-7 minutes to start. Once steam loads it respondes extremely slow. I have not even been able to get into Counter Strike because it is so slow. To stop it from running I have to do ctrl + alt + backspace and log back in.

Output of top for me and root:

top - 22:04:51 up 3 days, 6:04, 2 users, load average: 13.66, 9.31, 5.20
Tasks: 84 total, 5 running, 79 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 43.2% us, 56.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515796k total, 505352k used, 10444k free, 64012k buffers
Swap: 1461872k total, 14840k used, 1447032k free, 139496k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17403 dave 15 0 1905m 67m 25m R 35.3 13.5 23:31.76 wine-preloader
17406 dave 15 0 3884 1792 816 S 30.7 0.3 18:49.64 wineserver
17717 dave 15 0 39008 14m 8992 S 6.6 2.8 0:03.64 gnome-terminal
12273 dave 15 0 30060 16m 10m S 3.0 3.3 10:30.88 gaim
8344 dave 16 0 17944 10m 6252 S 1.3 2.1 3:30.99 xfdesktop
17745 dave 16 0 2128 1088 844 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.09 top
7329 dave 16 0 3076 1548 1196 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 esd
7376 dave 15 0 2700 1440 888 S 0.0 0.3 0:09.23 gam_server
8278 dave 19 0 4308 1572 1012 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.08 sh
8317 dave 16 0 3124 1004 808 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.04 ssh-agent
8320 dave 25 0 2032 740 644 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon
8321 dave 15 0 2572 748 624 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-launch
8325 dave 24 0 4308 1560 1000 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 sh
8326 dave 15 0 7092 3688 2600 S 0.0 0.7 0:07.11 xscreensaver
8330 dave 16 0 12140 5088 4068 S 0.0 1.0 0:25.42 xfce4-session
8335 dave 15 0 17540 9768 6576 S 0.0 1.9 0:23.06 xfce-mcs-manage
8338 dave 15 0 13112 6988 5392 S 0.0 1.4 0:33.93 xfwm4
8340 dave 16 0 13456 7708 5392 S 0.0 1.5 2:00.20 xftaskbar4
8342 dave 16 0 13468 7716 5400 S 0.0 1.5 2:01.01 xftaskbar4
8346 dave 15 0 18640 11m 6808 S 0.0 2.3 7:11.68 xfce4-panel
8353 dave 16 0 27676 12m 10m S 0.0 2.5 0:01.48 konqueror
8364 dave 16 0 24716 10m 8700 S 0.0 2.1 0:00.55 kdeinit
8367 dave 15 0 23900 9564 8380 S 0.0 1.9 0:00.21 dcopserver
8369 dave 16 0 24812 10m 9432 S 0.0 2.1 0:00.17 klauncher
8371 dave 16 0 28352 15m 12m S 0.0 3.1 0:03.06 kded
8864 dave 15 0 34600 17m 13m S 0.0 3.5 0:15.10 knotify
8885 dave 15 0 12824 7712 5080 S 0.0 1.5 0:02.52 artsd
15167 dave 16 0 12336 6756 5156 S 0.0 1.3 0:05.00 xftaskbar4
16502 dave 22 0 4332 1640 1056 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 firefox
16513 dave 24 0 4372 1668 1040 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 run-mozilla.sh
16518 dave 16 0 118m 54m 17m S 0.0 10.8 9:16.66 firefox-bin
16522 dave 16 0 6360 3632 1692 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.45 gconfd-2
17386 dave 16 0 8612 3400 2220 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.30 xterm
17387 dave 16 0 4624 2036 1320 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.03 bash
17400 dave 16 0 25748 11m 9576 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.02 kio_file
17721 dave 18 0 6356 2712 2132 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.20 bonobo-activati
17722 dave 16 0 2268 708 584 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe
17723 dave 16 0 4624 2008 1292 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.02 bash
17744 dave 18 0 11224 4404 3512 R 0.0 0.9 0:00.10 mousepad

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8255 root 15 0 206m 112m 12m S 5.6 22.3 293:55.12 Xorg
1 root 16 0 1564 532 460 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.24 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.61 events/0
4 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
75 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
103 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.01 pdflush
104 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.30 pdflush
106 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
105 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.10 kswapd0
691 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod
1831 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
2884 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.17 reiserfs/0
3010 root 15 -4 1656 564 484 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 udevd
6277 root 16 0 1560 396 328 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.10 dd
6717 root 16 0 10608 2580 2060 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 gdm
7018 root 16 0 5596 2012 1472 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.76 nmbd
7020 root 17 0 7720 2664 2032 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 smbd
7043 root 18 0 3540 1528 1280 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 sshd
7068 root 18 0 7720 2648 2016 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 smbd
7077 root 18 0 1920 812 712 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 hcid
7083 root 18 0 1604 548 480 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sdpd
7093 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd
7138 root 16 0 1936 852 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.03 cron
7180 root 16 0 1556 492 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
7181 root 16 0 1556 492 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
7182 root 16 0 1556 488 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
7183 root 16 0 1556 492 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
8250 root 15 0 10936 3044 2468 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.03 gdm
10196 root 26 10 1956 1024 556 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 acpid
12286 root 17 0 1556 492 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 getty
12299 root 17 0 1556 488 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 getty

[Zeroangel]

I'm having similar problems with a game called 'Battlezone II'. The official WINE likes to take up huge amounts of memory (1.5gb) even though the game is designed to utilize 256MB of RAM. And the game runs at 10fps with all graphical features disabled (it would run at +60fps in Windows, but 10fps seems far too low even for WINE).

I've managed to improve the situation by turning on some options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSectionBut the speed improvements aren't exactly mind-blowing. And RenderAccel tends to undermine system stability.

I would appreciate it if someone here could post additional tweaks. :D

[nouse66]

Did you ever find out what was causing the 5 minute delay on startup? I'm having the same issue when I run winecfg. Some windows programs get the delay (dvdshrink) and others don't (windows media player).

[squirrelplayingtag]

Nope. When ever I want to play counter strike I go use the family computer.

[nouse66]

ok, i figured out what was causing it for me. for some reason my loopback interface (lo) didn't get set to start on boot so 127.0.0.1 wasn't available. the installer didn't even set up eth0 correctly but i fixed right away since it's more noticable. i never bothered to look at the loopback... figured that would be somewhat idiot-proof in the installer.
someone tell me that the dapper version of the installer is less buggy ](*,)

i don't really think that it would be why counterstrike is slow but it's definitly a network issue that causes wine to hang for a few minutes. more info here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/browse_thread/thread/ef7e4a132bbdb888/c5faab58debd7993?q=startup&rnum=1#c5faab58debd7993