CPU usage at 100% in all Wine programs

joebobthe13th · Post by **joebobthe13th** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:52 pm

I know that there have been a couple of forum topics about this, but I have been unable to find one that has a solution. The problem is that in most of my Wine programs the CPU usage is at 100% continuously, even when the program is idling.
Programs that this affects: Steam, CS:S, Half Life, Natural Selection, Dwarf Fortress, Dwarf Therapist
Programs this doesn't affect: I Wanna Be the Guy
Wine version 1.2-rc2

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon May 31, 2010 7:04 pm

joebobthe13th wrote:

I know that there have been a couple of forum topics about this, but I have been unable to find one that has a solution. The problem is that in most of my Wine programs the CPU usage is at 100% continuously, even when the program is idling.
Programs that this affects: Steam, CS:S, Half Life, Natural Selection, Dwarf Fortress, Dwarf Therapist
Programs this doesn't affect: I Wanna Be the Guy
Wine version 1.2-rc2

What Linux distribution and version are you using?
What Graphics Processor and driver version are you using?

James McKenzie

joebobthe13th · Post by **joebobthe13th** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:37 pm

I'm running it in Ubuntu 10.04, installed via the Ubuntu Software center. Graphics processor is ATI Radeon Xpress 200m. I just running the preinstalled, non-ATI driver that came with this version of Ubuntu because I have been unable to find the Linux driver for my card.

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:41 am

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 21:37, joebobthe13th <[email protected]>wrote:

I'm running it in Ubuntu 10.04, installed via the Ubuntu Software center.
Graphics processor is ATI Radeon Xpress 200m. I just running the
preinstalled, non-ATI driver that came with this version of Ubuntu because
I have been unable to find the Linux driver for my card.

Did you look at the Hardware Drivers (under System or Administration menu
IIRC)?

Alternatively, you could have a look at envyng.

FrÃ©dÃ©ric
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joebobthe13th · Post by **joebobthe13th** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:38 am

Hardware Drivers doesn't have it, and EnvyNG isn't supported for Ubuntu 10.04. Is it still worth a shot?

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:40 am

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 08:38, joebobthe13th <[email protected]>wrote:

Hardware Drivers doesn't have it, and EnvyNG isn't supported for Ubuntu
10.04. Is it still worth a shot?

Well, apparently, EnvyNG is not supported anymore (
http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/?cat=12).

You might want to look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Drivers, or
http://ubuntuhcl.org/browse/product+ati ... 00m?id=160

It doesn't seem to be very well supported though... and I'm afraid that
won't change soon for a 3 years old card...

Send complaints to AMD...

FrÃ©dÃ©ric

NB: unrelated, but for good drivers or Linux, you definitely should get a
nVidia card. ATI cards are just starting to work (read: AMD just started to
write Linux drivers) but still have a long way to go and Intel, well...
probably good enough to play Minesweeper...
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DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:24 am

The ATI drivers are mostly fine, actually. At least they perform well, even if there's the occasional bug.

By the way, there's an easy download and installation for ATI video drivers right from the ATI site. Remove your free drivers and try out those; they work pretty well for games.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:25 am

Just another note; if you use ATI's own installer from their site, make sure you have kernel sources installed, or the driver won't work.

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:17 pm

He can't use the ATI drivers since those don't support his GPU anymore.

joebobthe13th · Post by **joebobthe13th** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:27 pm

Thunderbird wrote:He can't use the ATI drivers since those don't support his GPU anymore.

Well, that's the weird part. Using Omega Drivers on my Windows side I got the proper drivers and they work perfectly. Unfortunately, I don't know what drivers it downloaded.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:41 pm

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:17, Thunderbird <[email protected]> wrote:

He can't use the ATI drivers since those don't support his GPU anymore.

The old versions supporting the older GPUs are usually available, but
refuses to work on recent versions of X.Org...

Windows probably keep the interfaces a lot more stable than must
open-source OSes...

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:11 pm

Gert van den Berg wrote:On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:17, Thunderbird <[email protected]> wrote:
He can't use the ATI drivers since those don't support his GPU anymore.

The old versions supporting the older GPUs are usually available, but
refuses to work on recent versions of X.Org...

Windows probably keep the interfaces a lot more stable than must
open-source OSes...

I imagine they just freeze it until a next OS release, in fact.