Problems With Wine Lagging

[joelandsonja]

I have researched several posts that are similar to my own, but for some reason I don't see this particular problem being solved on any forum.

I am having a problem with Wine lagging whenever I try to play a game using a Windows based Emulator such as Snes9x, Gens, Jnes, Project 64 or whatever else. Is there anyone out there who has come across this issue and can give me some advice on what to do? I think it might be a problem with the general settings of wine, because it seems to be doing this with all of my Windows based emulators when I open them with Wine.

I should also mention that I am now running on Ubuntu 10.04, but just in case you were wondering, I've been having these problems since 9.10 and unfortunately the problem didn't resolve itself when the new system was released. I have more than enough ram and processor power to pull any of these games, so I'm hoping that will illuminate some of the issues that come to mind. I am also not interested in using Virtualbox or any of the [Crappy] Linux based emulators, because nothing works at all with those options.

I am, however, able to get all of my emulators to work on Wine, but the problem is that they all lag.

Any suggestions?

[D-cat]

The fact that WINE has to do some degree of translating code to make applications run in a apparent native API (in both directions) means you're going to get a slow down, as low as 1/4 speed of the same app in a native Windows environment, and that's assuming that certain hardware acceleration doesn't have to be faked.

Running an emulator under a translator such as WINE compounds the problem. There really is no perfect solution. You may have better luck running a dual boot or a Windows VM (especially if you have an HVM processor) for your emulators.

[Feeyo]

Those emulators you are talking about also have linux releaseses out there.
You do not need WINE to run those emulators.

But as D-cat said. WINE will always perform slower then on any windows machine.
If you want to have better performance with games I would suggest to have a look at WineX/Cedega.