[Wine] Re: Warcraft 2 BNE - performance problem...

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello!


I found the following tip on  the app-db page of starcraft broodwars:

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Users of Geforce-GeforceFX cards can improve the performance of StarCraft a lot (starting from Wine 0.9.19 or Wine CVS from August 1st or later) by adding some new registry options. Set the option HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Programs\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer to 'opengl' (if the Direct3D key doesn't exist add it). Further you need to set the option 'Direct3D\RenderTargetLockMode' to 'readtex'.

The rendering performance should be VERY fast in 24bit mode now, it should reach DGA speeds. In the near future I will add similar fixes for other cards to improve performance but the boost will never be as big as for these old nvidia cards using GL_EXT_paletted_texture support.

BTW note that the options I provided are now set for all applications, the options won't work fine for all apps yet so add some application specific options. (HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\starcraft.exe\Direct3D)

Roderick

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Maybe it helps you...

Ciao,

Olaf

> I have recently installed my Warcraft 2 BNE under wine (Ubuntu 6.10 -
> wine version 0.9.29). It runs almost perfect. There is intro, sounds
> but... game itself is slow. I mean my machine (Duron 1200; 384 MB;
> GeForce 5200 128 MB (drivers installed 9746); should run this game
> flawless (and it does under Window$) - but unfortunately, under wine
> game is pretty choppy - especially when I select a lot of units (good
> example is second mission in Human Campaign - when I select all my
> archesr and footmans and give "move" command I can see that they "jump"
> from place to place. Also map scrolling is rather slow. Is there any
> way to speed up that game?
>
> Thank you.
>
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