[Wine] Any hope for gaming?

Edward Savage epssyis at gmail.com
Wed May 12 08:27:15 CDT 2010


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:18 PM, fsleeman <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Where in Wine is this bottleneck? For me, performance is the main reason I cannot play games in Linux. There are a lot of ways you can make a game run, but if you are getting a 50% drop in FPS's it makes most games unplayable, even on a decent machine. Is there a concentrated effort to improve performance in addition to fixing known bugs?
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Yes.  Codeweavers pays several developers (to my knowledge) to be on
the look out for ways to improve Windows DX support.  Several members
of the community have created tools to watch for performance
degradation or improvement as well.

Performance of games (and apps in general) is reasonably important to
Wine these days.

A 50% drop in FPS does not make most games unplayable unless you
mistakenly relate skill to higher FPS.



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