[Linux Mint 11 / Wine 1.3.15] Nvidia screen refresh problem

[rlindau]

I run a couple Windows apps (Quicken 2007, Solitaire Plus) under wine.

I've noted a screen refresh problem with both apps on various releases of Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) and wine. Can anyone suggest how I can eliminate the following problem.

What happens: When I use the open-source graphics card driver, the apps work fine. But when I use the proprietary Nvidia drivers.... (1) Solitaire Plus often shows moved cards in both their old and new positions (i.e., the card in the "move-from" location doesn't disappear); and (2) Quicken often does not close menu pull-downs once I've made a selection (e.g., payee), but rather continues to show a partial image of the pull-down (which eventually goes away, like when I save a transaction). I presume both to be symptoms of the same problem.

I have observed the same problem with two different Nvidia cards (GeForce 9500 and GeForce 460), different versions of the Nvidia proprietary driver, different versions of Mint (9, 10, 11), and various versions of wine.

Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, RL

[Pendrokar]

I know this is a very old thread, but this issue pops up for me when using Unity3D, the game engine/editor. Sometimes one inner window does refresh, while another does not. Most notably this happens when modifying parameters, when your input changes a state that you don't see. "1[0]", seems I have a zero added to have it at "10", "10[0]", seems fine, click something else within in the window and I see "100".

Just hoping that Wine has some configuration setting to make it refresh windows more often.

Using:
Ubuntu 13.10
Wine 1.7.15/1.7.16
Graphics card: NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT
NVIDIA driver 319/331.67

[dimesio]

Wine does not have a configuration setting to make it refresh windows more often.

The OP's problem only occurred with the proprietary driver, not the open source one, so that was a driver bug, and should be reported to Nvidia. Have you tried the open source driver? If not, do so, and if your problem occurs with both, file a bug here.

[Pendrokar]

dimensio,

It seems you were right, if by 'open source drivers' you meant the default Noeveau driver on which this bug does not occur as 'xorg-edgers' NVIDIA drivers also show up as 'open source' in 'Additional drivers'.

Though the Unity 3D installation might seem too long for devs to fix. Will try and see if OP's listed programs do the same bug and file those as a bug to NVIDIA driver developers...

[Pendrokar]

Oh wait, Wine's/PlayOnLinux's enabling of "Strict Draw Ordering" fixed this issue and I am willing to deal with the possible performance loss.