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emory

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Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 17

WoW 4.0.1-LIVE: Performance Tuning (wine, Warcraft, fglrx)

I am trying to improve the performance of WoW on my Arch Linux workstation to get it closer to the performance I see in Windows 7.

For some reason in-combat in 25-man content I'm seeing a dip into the 15-17fps range, but the same install (different Config.WTF options but same AddOns, etc) will stay above 30fps with a couple of exceptions (the large Whelp pull before Sindragosa, AOE spam on HMLK).  Edit: in Windows I can can be at 60-120fps and can manage 45-50fps with textures cranked up, distance at 75% sitting in the middle of a packed Dalaran.

I'm using an ATI PCI-E 5750 and the catalyst-test package with xorg-1.9.  My workstation is a quad-core 9550 CPU with 4GB of RAM.  I'm using 2.6.35-ARCH kernel and the awesome(1) window manager. 

My xorg is very basic:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I am starting the game via `wine /path/to/Wow.exe -opengl` and have made no changes to winecfg other than to make sure the audio is set to Alsa.  Sound works fine.  I have tried a lot of combinations of settings using the in-game configuration for Video but I can't seem to make it happy.  I'd like to play Windowed.

Anyone have any expertise with an environment like this?

Last edited by emory (2010-10-15 22:43:08)