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davidjosepha

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Registered: 2013-02-21

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Guild Wars 2 laggy--reducing graphics settings does not help

I'm trying to run Guild Wars 2 on wine, and it works decently well, but the framerate is inconsistent and it frequently has drops. However, my framerate does not improve AT ALL when I lower my graphics settings to the lowest possible, which makes me think it's a CPU issue not a graphics card issue (and apparently GW is a CPU intensive game). I've been reading some suggestions, which include running as Vista in wine, and the Vista one did help (improved frame rate by ~10 fps), but it's still not great gameplay. Is there anything else I can try?

I'm running the FOSS drivers (which is not something I'm willing to change) with a 6970, which runs very well in the other games I've played (TF2/CS:S/L4D2), and I have an i7-950 3.06ghz processor.

Tom B

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Re: Guild Wars 2 laggy--reducing graphics settings does not help

I know you want to keep the FOSS driver, but if you try Catalyst and test the performance you can see if it is a GPU/Driver issue or if it's a CPU bottleneck. If, as you suggest, it's a CPU problem then Catalyst will not have much of an impact on the framerate. If it's a GPU issue, Catalyst will improve the performance and you'll at least know where to look for further performance boosts.

Alternatively, overclock the CPU and see if the framerate rises as a result, again you'll be able to see if it's the CPU or GPU which is the bottleneck.

scjet

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Re: Guild Wars 2 laggy--reducing graphics settings does not help

I've played a lot of GW, with wine, using both nvdia and Radeons, and I agree with "Tom B".
Catalyst drivers, will make a huge differnce in killing that lag here, and, for that matter, in ALL Games, they always did for me. 

Nothwithstanding, for example, "yaourt catalyst-test" via AUR, will do the trick nicely, and if you want to go back to FOSS, simply "pacman -Rdd catalyst-test".
...There would obvioulsy be a bit more to do, in these regards, but ya know, ...

Last edited by scjet (2014-03-08 06:48:02)

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