wine users - Nov 2010 - Very low FPS in Wine/Ubuntu vs WindowsXP

New on Linux and Wine. I like most of what I see. Here is one problem I
don't understand. I run dualboot Windows XP / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
with Wine 1.3.6. Graphics - GeForce 9500 GT with Linux driver 195.36.24

Tested World of Warcraft and compared framerates in XP vs Ubuntu/Wine. With all
parameters the same (same Config.wtf file with OpenGL set), same in-game
options, same character, same place (Dalaran) same movements.

Result:
XP - 35-40 fps
Ubuntu10/Wine 12 -20 fps   :( 

No other "tweaks" than OpenGL. The easier adjustments and
"tweaks" suggested in older threads here and in other forums had no
impact on fps.

Is this as you should expect? Any suggestions on what to do to get fps at least
a bit closer to XP?

Did you check the howto in the appdb, 
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=20549
?

I have now :) 

But none of them seems to adress the fact that there is a significant
diffierence in performance even with OpenGL between Ubunut/Wine and XP.

I have now installed Nvidia driver 260. and did get a couple of fps extra (I
think), but still there is a big difference to XP.

On 11/16/2010 12:02 PM, M60HAKAN wrote:
> New on Linux and Wine. I like most of what I see. Here is one problem I
don't understand. I run dualboot Windows XP / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
with Wine 1.3.6. Graphics - GeForce 9500 GT with Linux driver 195.36.24
>
> Tested World of Warcraft and compared framerates in XP vs Ubuntu/Wine. With
all parameters the same (same Config.wtf file with OpenGL set), same in-game
options, same character, same place (Dalaran) same movements.
>
> Result:
> XP - 35-40 fps
> Ubuntu10/Wine 12 -20 fps   :(
>
> No other "tweaks" than OpenGL. The easier adjustments and
"tweaks" suggested in older threads here and in other forums had no
impact on fps.
>
> Is this as you should expect? Any suggestions on what to do to get fps at
least a bit closer to XP?
Have you tried it without the OpenGL tag? I get better fps in d3d on my 
system, but different hardware and linux distro may impact that.

Also would be worthwhile to check for a driver update. I use a different 
nvidia card, but my driver version is 260.19.12 so your driver in linux 
may be quite old compared to the windows one it is testing against.

If you have any add-ons remove them and compare again. If you use oRA2 
just ditch it, everything it provided for raiding is in the the Blizzard 
defaults now and that addon seems to cost a good `10 fps in linux.

http://wiki.winehq.org/Performance