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nannerpussy

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Registered: 2017-02-15

Posts: 96

Question about Gallium9, SWTOR, and possibly Guild Wars 2

I recently switched my PoL/Wine and mesa settings around to use gallium (wine-gaming-nine in AUR) with supported games, and while SWTOR runs just fine for the setup I have, I'm wondering if using the older -gallium labeled version of Wine is helping/hurting performance overall compared to just playing with the latest stable Wine available? I am having trouble finding any comprehensive benchmarks with hardware specs like mine, so I thought I'd ask here for personal experience with gallium WINE and/or SWTOR in particular. I feel like I should be seeing some kind of increase just by using Gallium over d3d, but in the limited time I've played I haven't seen a difference between the two.

Also, are there any games available on Steam that you can think of where switching to gallium drivers made a huge difference? I have seen one post I'd call "informative" that detailed the difference between normal and gallium play-through on Guild Wars 2, but it seems like if a big difference were to be had there, I would find many more posts about it and performance in Arch.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,919

Re: Question about Gallium9, SWTOR, and possibly Guild Wars 2

you might be interested in wine-staging-nine from multi-lib .

It includes gallium-nine as well as CSMT and other patches that are supposed to improve performance.
for details, check http://www.wine-staging.com/

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