Doing anything on Wine uses 100% CPU

dpitch40 · Post by **dpitch40** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:42 am

I am trying to get Wine 1.2 working on my system running Ubuntu 10.10. When I try to run a program in Wine via the command line, the CPU usage shoots up to 100% for a few seconds and it prints out the following message many times:

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fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle (nil), overlapped (nil)): stub

After it finished printing the copies of this message, the CPU usage drops, but the program keeps running without doing anything until I kill it. If I try to configure Wine (from the Applications menu) the CPU usage maxes out and stays there until a few seconds after I close the configuration window. If I check my processes at this time, I see that a process called slpd.exe is using about 180% of my CPU.

I've searched for help online and other people seem to be having CPU usage problems with Wine, but these always seem to be caused by trying specific applications; doing literally anything on Wine seems to cause this problem. I carefully followed the installation instructions and I've completely removed and reinstalled Wine several times, getting the same problem each time. What is going on?

Bob Wya · Post by **Bob Wya** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:03 pm

Have you installed some Spyware in your default WINEPREFIX or an infected application? What did you install anyway??

You can delete all your installed Windows applications in the default WINEPREFIX with:

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rm -Rf ~/.wine

Surely that would solve the problem - no?

BTW Q4Wine is a useful Qt GUI utility that groups all the Wine associated processes running on your system together by WINEPREFIX. It's in the Ubuntu repositories.

Bob