wine users - Aug 2010 - Which hardware component causes performance loss (Starcraft)

Hi all,

I would like to know which component needs to be substituted to get a better
performance in Starcraft 2.

On windows 7 64 bit I get on highest graphics settings something at 30 fps. On
my openSuse 11.3 64 bit system with wine 1.3 and nvidia driver I am only able to
reach 18 fps or so.

My PC:

- 6 GB RAM
- Intel E6600 @ 2 x 2.40GHz (only 60% while playing)
- Nvida Geforce 8800 GTS 768 MB ram with recent driver 256.44
I am using a dual screen setup, but when playing one screen gets disabled
automatically (twinview + modelines in xorg.conf).
- Screen resolution while playing: 1680x1050
- Wine version: 1.3.0

Where is the bottleneck? Is my 3years old high end graphic card too old by now?

I already tried to improve my wine installation using regedit, but I
couldn't notice any improvements.

Best regards,

Sven

On 08/18/2010 08:27 AM, Sven21 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know which component needs to be substituted to get a
better performance in Starcraft 2.
>
> On windows 7 64 bit I get on highest graphics settings something at 30 fps.
On my openSuse 11.3 64 bit system with wine 1.3 and nvidia driver I am only able
to reach 18 fps or so.
>
> My PC:
>
> - 6 GB RAM
> - Intel E6600 @ 2 x 2.40GHz (only 60% while playing)
> - Nvida Geforce 8800 GTS 768 MB ram with recent driver 256.44
> I am using a dual screen setup, but when playing one screen gets disabled
automatically (twinview + modelines in xorg.conf).
> - Screen resolution while playing: 1680x1050
> - Wine version: 1.3.0
>
> Where is the bottleneck? Is my 3years old high end graphic card too old by
now?
>
> I already tried to improve my wine installation using regedit, but I
couldn't notice any improvements.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sven
Hi,

I get 60FPS in StarCraft 2 using Wine 1.2

Here is my system:
- Dell XPS 420 (Modified) Code Named: "JetFire"
- Intel Core2Quad 2.4GHz 4 Core CPU (under-clocked to 1.6GHz)
- 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM
- 1GB DDR3 nVidia GT 240 Graphic Card (fanless)
(current nVidia drivers approved by Ubuntu team)
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE PCI sound card
- Ubuntu 10.04 Linux 32bit Final
- Wine 1.2 Final
- StarCraft 2 v1.0.2 (current)
(1024x768 window/graphics setting on "Ultra" / 60+ FPS)

What is your sound device?

Jesse "JeZ+Lee"
16BitSoft(R)
Video Game Design Studio
www.16BitSoft.com

I do not see the point. People say that GTS 8800 should be faster than 240. My
CPU is not at full load. Where is the difference?

your graphic card has 25% more memory and DDR3. Does this leads to such a big
difference?

I am using the Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 motherboard, which has the ALC888 sound chip on
board. more details:
http://www.gigabyte.de/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=4300

I tested the game on 1024x768 but things didn't get better.