[Wine] Performance Issues with Games in Wine (EVE Online, TF2)

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 22:38:00 CDT 2011


On 4/18/11 12:37 PM, 3246251196 wrote:
> I hate the ugliness of DirectX.
>
> Anarchy Online is actually running DX7 at the minute. There is a new engine change coming soon.
>
> But, yes, it uses DirectX.
>
> So here is a question:
>
> WINE will perform a little lesser with the same hardware. If I go ahead and by a more powerful video card will that improve FPS? Is this conversion from DirectX to OpenGL done by the GPU or CPU - or does that not matter?
A 'better' GPU may or may not matter.  If it can do OpenGL in hardware, 
it may make a major difference.  If it cannot, then performance may 
actually suffer.

What type of video card and what GPU were you thinking of upgrading to?

James McKenzie




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