[Wine] Buying a graphics card for Wine: ATI vs nVidia

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu May 28 15:02:48 CDT 2009


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Gert van den Berg <gert at mohag.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:28, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gert van den Berg <wine-users at mohag.net> wrote:
>>> PS: Would Max's DIB engine patches help for Red Alert 2's performance issues?
>>
>> If it's using DIB's, probably. Try it and see.
>>
> Its DirectDraw and without the DirectDrawRenderer = opengl setting
> (which seem to flicker a lot, etc) it feels more like chess than a
> real-time strategy.
>
> According to http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectDraw the DIB engine is
> supposed to help...
>
> I would try it when have some time and figure out the patches...

I've added a howto to http://wiki.winehq.org/DIBEngine

-- 
-Austin



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