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KingofKIngs

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 20

Diablo III on Wine

When gaming under Arch linux (more specifically Diablo 3), gaming seems to be more cpu accelerated than gpu accelerated when using Wine. I was getting 15-30fps on it today depending on what tweaks I did to the graphics card and other wine tweaks. When I overclocked my CPU for unrelated reasons, when I later tested my fps, it increased to 60-75fps. I am unsure of why it would be using CPU acceleration. I had similar poor performance on other WINE games. I haven't had this problem on other distros in the past, leading me to believe that this is a problem with some arch configuration I have.
Hardware info:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
CPU: AMD Phenom II 1055T stock 3.2ghz overclock 3.8ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 470 (stock speeds)
Software info:
I have had this issue on the stock kernel as well as linux-ck. I have used the most recent drivers, as well as 304xx on both stock and ck. I have also installed them myself under ck. I have had this issue on stock wine as well as an AUR build for wine for diablo. I have both the 64 bit and 32bit drivers installed. When I used windows I easily maxed any game including Diablo at stock speeds. I am unsure of if this is useful for comparison. On my laptop (8gb of ram Intel i7 2630qm GTX560m gpu) I get about 30 fps.

If you need any more information I would be glad to give it to you.

Thanks.

McDoenerKing

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 59

Re: Diablo III on Wine

I can only say that I had less problems running games in a 32bit chroot than going multilib on a 64bit system. Also did you check out the winehq for tips and tricks?
As far as I know wine will use cpu for translating the wincalls and some other things that arent redirected correctly will be done by cpu if I am not too mistaken. At least I know, that real emulators are very cpu heavy...

KingofKIngs

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 20

Re: Diablo III on Wine

Will a 32bit chroot behave well with X? I didn't realize I could launch applications to Xserver from a chroot. I have gone through wiki articles on general performance, gaming, and wine specifically. If you have any tips on setting up the chroot session, I'll be happy to test that and report back the results. It seems strange to me that an increase of 600mhz doubles my FPS.

[Edit]
Found this. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _in_Arch64

I'll let you know how it works.

Last edited by KingofKIngs (2013-04-14 20:05:49)