[FAQ] Ryzom in Linux (Reloaded)

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Originally Posted by ulani

I have a question about the startup script in the first post.
The line "nice -n 19 wine $GameExeFile;" means that the game is started with very low priority, doesn't it? I would have expected the opposite

it's only low priority if there is fight over cpu time ;-)

because ryzom uses 99% of cpu time doing nothing, it might as well do it at background priority and leave cpu for apps that really need it (like second ryzom on same core ;-)

.. also early wine had somewhat basic sound drivers, and without 'nice -n 19', ryzom took all cpu and left too little for wine sound thread. wine sound drivers are quite a lot better now, so i think 'nice -n 19' is not exactly needed for that purpose anymore. i still use it, even tho i have quad core cpu now.