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On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 07:01 -0500, HailandKill wrote:<BR>
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enabling dri - <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/RadeonXpress">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/RadeonXpress</A>
This on the whole has better performance. Videos work brilliant and wine doesn't crash, hazaa!
But, should Diablo II have unplayable framerates on this laptop when using D3D?
So, as summary I have two questions:
1) fglrx - seeing the problems I'm coming across is it actually worth trying to get it to work for a performance increase over the open source drivers. If so do I have to downgrade some software versions?
2) If I'm going to use the open source drivers are there any general performance tips for wine, I can only find tips on how to make WoW run better....
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I'm having trouble finding time to play with wine & games recently, and also I haven't bothered with fglrx for over a year, but I can tell you that if you want to use the open-source drivers, you should closely track the latest driver developments. I would personally build xf86-video-ati and mesa from the latest git sources. Alternatively you can try to find someone's binary packages if they update them recently. In particular, there is some discussion in the mesa list:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Also, if I can finish my work in the next few days, we'll have</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">>> GL_EXT_fog_coord in the r300 driver, which means we can bump its</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">>> GL_VERSION to 1.4, which is a big step in Wine compatibility.</FONT></TT><BR>
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So you'd want to watch for when this lands.<BR>
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I can't help you with uninstalling Ubuntu's ATI drivers and building your own. I use Gentoo and I don't want to help you break your Ubuntu.<BR>
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As for performance, there are some options that you can set with driconf that can improve performance, but you'll have to search around somewhat to find exactly what option for what app. You can also use sysprof to profile your system and hassle wine / mesa devs with pretty output graphs :) This approach actually did wonders for me with an integrated Intel video chip on my old PC - Intel devs did a simple patch that doubled 2D performance. Cool.<BR>
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Lastly, if you try to run Cedega or Crossover ( but not native wine ), keep in mind that you'll need 32-bit binaries of your drivers, otherwise you'll get software rendering. fglrx includes 32-bit binaries, but I haven't yet figured out how to build 32-bit binaries on my ( non-multilib ) 64-bit Gentoo system.<BR>
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Dan<BR>
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