Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and Warcraft III - WineX

[Tony Jones <tbjones@interaccess.com>]

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Tony Jones
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Sir-Tez 


On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:52, Tony Jones wrote:
> In my testing of recent kernels 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4 (mm6
> wouldn't cooperate with X for some reason and I didn't do much
> investigation) I've experied an easily replicable and highly annoying
> problem with Warcraft III and WineX 3.1 (prebuilt).
> 
> After playing 1 or 2 games, or leaving the game idle in the chat room,
> the sound will eventually start to stutter and chop badly.  In the
> presence of this incredibly bad sound, the mouse and game respond just
> fine (kudos to the scheduler on that point).  Considering the game is
> played in "real-time" and is full of audio cues I hate to imagine that
> Con's scheduler will be the "official" scheduler of 2.6 without having
> this issue addressed.
> 
> The kernels I use are tainted with nvidia's video drivers, 1.0.4496.  
> 
> Nick's scheduler in 2.6.0-test4-mm5 seems to be the only thing capable
> of correcting this problem.  In general operation, mm5's scheduler
> seems better at handling about everything I threw at it, with a rare
> xmms skip once in a week of use.
> 
> I'm not a developer but I'd love some feedback and or questions to
> help figure out why this happens with Con's scheduler patches in mm4
> and test5 to help improve 2.6.0 altogether.
> 
> Other stats:  gcc 3.2.3, AMD Athlon XP 2100+, 512MB RAM, ATA 100
> drive, GF4 Ti4200.   I'll also post CFLAGS upon request.