wine users - May 2010 - Awful, AWFUL frame rate.

Hey guys.
I'm very new to Wine. Very. I've pretty much just installed it.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and upon seeing many videos on Youtube such as
"Team Fortress 2 On Wine!", seeing it run flawlessly, and I thought
I'd give it a go.

Now, I'm using the Dell Studio 1555, which has pretty awful graphics. It is
a laptop after all. I managed however, with a few mods I could get Team Fortress
2 running full frame rate at correct screen ratio and medium graphics - on
Windows. I thought I could then run it on Wine with very small ratio and lower
graphics, and I would be fine.

I wanted to test run it first, I ran Macromedia Flash 8, worked flawlessly. Then
I ran Steam. Pretty bad response time with everything. But, before wasting
bandwidth and time, I thought I'd run a smaller, easier game - just to see
what it was like (after Steam ran badly). So I tried Plants Vs Zombies.
I got like 1fps. Yikes. Is this normal? PvZ can run on 100mb of RAM on Windows
98.
Also, I tried Civ 4 and AoM. Both just crash before starting.
So please, am I doing it wrong? Are there any settings or something I need? Or
is it just not going to work?
What about PlayOnLinux - will that give me better results?

Any help will be much appreciated!

-The Cat

Well, first of all, which Wine did you install? The "wine" package in
Ubuntu is a very old version, 1.0.1, so it's recommended that you update to
the latest version first (currently 1.1.44). Check this site's download page
for instructions on that.

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Calamity Cat <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and upon seeing many videos on Youtube such as
"Team Fortress 2 On Wine!", seeing it run flawlessly, and I thought
I'd give it a go.
>
Gaming and Wine is very much a case by case basis at the moment.
Testing other games and expecting them to be an indication as to the
way another game will run is simply not going to work.  Judging by
your comments you are using a version of Wine that is almost two years
old and expecting it to work with current applications.  Furthermore
you are not consulting the Wine Appdb to find out how to get your
games working.

If you are using Wine 1.0.1 update to the latest version and then
update your graphics drivers to the latest available from ATI.

You can copy your steamapps directory from Windows to Linux to save
downloading everything again.

eps wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Calamity Cat <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and upon seeing many videos on Youtube such
as "Team Fortress 2 On Wine!", seeing it run flawlessly, and I thought
I'd give it a go.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Gaming and Wine is very much a case by case basis at the moment.
> Testing other games and expecting them to be an indication as to the
> way another game will run is simply not going to work.  Judging by
> your comments you are using a version of Wine that is almost two years
> old and expecting it to work with current applications.  Furthermore
> you are not consulting the Wine Appdb to find out how to get your
> games working.
> 
> If you are using Wine 1.0.1 update to the latest version and then
> update your graphics drivers to the latest available from ATI.
> 
> You can copy your steamapps directory from Windows to Linux to save
> downloading everything again.

Thanks for the reply!
Nothing I've read on the Appdb seemed to work for me...
But I'll try updating wine - thanks!