WinE and games

AndrewB · 03-26-2005, 07:21 AM

Hey,

ive been trying to setup unreal tournament (99 not 2004) with wine. - Ive got it to run, but the fps is lower than 10

(i get about 40+ in windows) - i was under the impression that wine would run this at near to windows speeds (as its not an emulator) as it employee's some of the windows dll's as well.

Is there anything more i can do to speed things up through wine?

my graphics card is SiS Real256E and it is installed correctly.

Thanks

Andrew

Micro420 · 03-26-2005, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AndrewB
Hey,

ive been trying to setup unreal tournament (99 not 2004) with wine. - Ive got it to run, but the fps is lower than 10 (i get about 40+ in windows) - i was under the impression that wine would run this at near to windows speeds (as its not an emulator) as it employee's some of the windows dll's as well.

Is there anything more i can do to speed things up through wine?

my graphics card is SiS Real256E and it is installed correctly.

Thanks

Andrew

You can try Cedega, which is a commercial version of Wine that is made specifically for games. Check out their website: www.transgaming.com

As for speeding the game up, make sure your drivers are properly installed and try a less intensive graphical environment, like Windows Maker or IceWM. Other than that, there isn't much else you can do. A lot of programs (if they can even run in Wine) don't run full speed with Wine.

AndrewB · 03-26-2005, 04:43 PM

hi thanks for the reply.

i went and purchased cedega to see how it performed, reading further into it, i see a lot of its core is based on the wine project, and cedegar mainly support newer games (which is fine).

I found a few tweaks which raised my fps from 5 to 20 via wine, and from 5 to 15 with cedega, so all in all not a bad buy.

I wouldnt say cedega supersedes wine, i didnt notice much difference (in the one game i played granted ...) - and i had similar problems / bugs

if you want to support a good project though, i would recommend contributing to both wine and cedega - the sooner we get off windows, the better.

Andrew

ksm89 · 03-29-2005, 08:32 PM

Do you have direct rendering enabeled? Type "glxinfo" into a terminal to find out.

AndrewB · 03-30-2005, 01:40 PM

it says :

direct rendering: No

so im guessing thats a no, how can i enable it? :O

Andrew

Nobber · 03-31-2005, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AndrewB
it says :

direct rendering: No

so im guessing thats a no, how can i enable it? :O

Andrew

Off the top of my head:

1. Make sure the lines

Load "dri"
Load "glx"

are present (and uncommented!) in the "Module" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

2. Make sure you have the appropriate kernel modules loaded. Since you have SiS graphics, I guess you would need (on a 2.6.x kernel):

agpgart
sis-agp
sis

3. You might also need the following section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

4. Can't think of anything else. Give it a go and see!