[Bug 11674] Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674

--- Comment #221 from Tom <fastumzug at fastmail.fm> 2012-09-15 05:10:52 CDT ---
> 2. It is true that WoW works just fine for most of the people in most
> situations, BUT the most demanding aspects of this game are 25 man end game
> raids. And in that situation the difference between regular Wine and Wine with
> the rgl patch is very significant, and for many people that is a difference
> between being able to contribute to the raid or not.

That's quite similar to the situation in Guild Wars 2. I have a NV540m not the
best at the market but it runs with 40 FPS in Win7 and only 9 FPS in Wine. I
can also switch graphic settings without any effect on its performance.

> This rgl patch doubles my framerate in both of these situations (when it does
> not crash).

I would like to test it. I may do something wrong because GW2 seams not to find
DX9 when I activate the patch. ae already said his patch isn't for GW2. I hope,
we can get it running for GW2, too.

> While I fully agree with Wine developers that rgl in its current state is a
> horrible and ugly hack that has no place in Wine, at the same time we do need
> something with the similar effect to be able to full use current generation
> graphics cards in modern games.

It is a hack which is worth to build on IMHO. If it just helps in the first
place then let it be a bit 'ugly'. But we can use it as a basis to build up on.
If it just don't work, there will be less testers left, because the play with
Windows.

> ae, could it be possible to write a 'generator' that would pick up all possible
> GL functions and generate the code to 'remote' all of them, instead of just a
> subset?

Write him a mail, too.  And if he needs Guild Wars 2 for testing his patch,
too. I'm pretty sure we'll get the people together to buy him one :)

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