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[ahungry]

Hello all,

When playing on Wine under Linux, when I have a character in the party with bags in the inventory the game consistently hangs every ~2 seconds or so for about half a second. Does anyone know of a fix short of avoiding bag usage (this does fix it)?

I have already run the tolower script for the directory on my Linux install.

[Wisp]

Have you biffed your game? Having (a lot of) files in the override is bad for performance, since Wine has to emulate case-insensitivity. Maybe it's got nothing to do with your problem, but it's worth trying if you haven't.

[Miloch]

Also, if the bag store (.sto file) capacities are set to supposedly "unlimited" (-1 or 65535), this can cause a memory leak; setting it to ~32k or less seems to avoid this.

Edit: check your WeiDU.log for BG2 Tweaks' Unlimited Bags or whatever it is if you're not sure whether this is implemented, or use an editor to check some bag*.sto files.

Edited by Miloch, 01 September 2011 - 12:19 PM.

[ahungry]

Well, after searching through the bag files with Near Infinity and trying various other things, I ended up narrowing it down to the Haiass mod (whether I accept him into the party at Candlekeep or not).

If I never initiate the first Haiass encounter, I can have every slot filled with bags of holding and experience no stutter. After initializing Haiass encounter, each bag adds to the periodic delay that occurs every 2 seconds or so.

[Miloch]

I don't know if you're the same poster, but see here for my response. I'm quite sure the same thing would apply to any mod (and there are loads) that uses PartyHasItem().

[ahungry]

Hi Miloch, that was me. I could not remember my password and noticed I replied anonymously after the fact with a different name I use on forums.

The only thing I can think of that might be the cause on Linux/wine and not an issue on Windows is that Linux is case sensitive while Windows is not. While Wine emulates the case insensitivity, I have read that can also add some slowdown.

Grepping things before using Linux, I notice a huge slowdown using the -i tag (insensitivity) so I could see that contributing.

Thanks for the replies.

[Miloch]

Well, did you biff your game (i.e. do you have Generalised Biffing as one of your last mods in your WeiDU.log) as I posted in the other thread? Also, you probably want to tolower your override folder before doing that.

[ahungry]

Well, did you biff your game (i.e. do you have Generalised Biffing as one of your last mods in your WeiDU.log) as I posted in the other thread? Also, you probably want to tolower your override folder before doing that.

I had tried tolower and biffing. In the end to resolve I simply avoided entering the room where the first Haiass event triggers.