multiple instances of World of Warcraft (old version)

[beauxq]

First I want to make clear that I am using an older version World of Warcraft, version 2.4.3.
This may be important because I have found information that WoW made a significant change at some point that affected how it works in Wine.

on Ubuntu 19.10, using Wine from Ubuntu repository

Using default everything, I can run WoW perfectly.

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wine wow.exe

60+ FPS, everything is perfect.

I want to run multiple instances simultaneously.
wine wow.exe 2 times
I get 2 WoW windows where everything functions, except they're < 1 FPS, unplayable.
I would expect and be fine with half the normal FPS in each window, but this is much less than that.

I've tried separate WINEPREFIX for each, same result.

Is there any way I can get 2 instances that each behave as if they were the only instance running?

[beauxq]

update:
I tried it on a different computer, and it didn't have the same problem, so I looked for the difference.
I found:
Wine 4.0.2 has the problem. (in ubuntu 19.10 repository)
Wine 3.0.1 doesn't have the problem. (in ubuntu 18.04 repository, and manually installed by me in my ubuntu 19.10)

So for now, I guess I can use 3.0.1

Does this need a bug report for a regression?

Is there something I can do to make it work in later versions, so I don't need to keep this 3.0.1?

I might get around to checking if it's in later versions (after 4.0.2).

[jkfloris]

Does this need a bug report for a regression?

If Wine 5.0 has the same behavior, then you could write a bug report.