Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:01:09 -0500 | From | Tony Jones <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and Warcraft III - WineX |
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Tony Jones aka 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.
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