[Bug 9263] Guild Wars terribly slow

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9263





--- Comment #44 from Jon Leachman <ultrabatman at gmail.com>  2008-06-29 18:30:42 ---
I had the same super-slow framerate problem in Ubuntu 8.04, wine 1.0 & 1.1, but
finally found a way to boost performance to a playable level:
* Switch to wine 0.9.61
* Uncheck "Allow pixel shader" in winecfg Graphics tab
* XP win version appears to work best, 98 is passable
* Start GW:
WINEDEBUG=-all wine Gw.exe
(the WINEDEBUG thing is to prevent wine from spewing loads of debug messages
that, at least for me, interfered with GW rendering)
* Before logging in to ArenaNet, hit the Auto button at the bottom of the
Graphics tab in the Options window
* Whenever the frame rate drops (happens to me occasionally) just hit that Auto
button again...

I was originally getting less than 1 fps, but I get around 7-10 fps with this
method.  I have crappy onboard Intel G31 graphics, so maybe ~10 fps is about
the best I can do.
I should add that wine 1.0 & 1.1 segfault after I hit the GW "Play" button on
the initial screen if "Allow pixel shader" is unchecked, which is why I had to
revert to 0.9.61.  Incidentally, should I submit a bug report about this, since
it appears to be specific to >= v1.0?

Hope this is helpful to someone.

My setup:
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Asus P5KPL-CM (Intel G31 chipset)
onboard graphics
2048 MB DDR2 mem
Intel Q6600 cpu (quad-core 2.4 GHz)


--- Comment #45 from Jean Michel <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de>  2008-06-30 03:33:15 ---
IMHO ~10 FPS aren't playable. Because especially Guild Wars is a game where
everyone is looking at the graphic. And as there are not only PvE Players in
Guild Wars (There are many many PvP Players arround), those needs to be really
fast. Impossible if you have only 10 FPS. Thats like connecting with a ping
over 500.. Also if you compare this FPS number with the one you would have in
windows, you'll be a bit dissapointed.

but thats.. just my 2 cents.


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