tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post1553957874575163824..comments2024-03-05T10:47:39.661-06:00Comments on Thoughts on Technology: Starcraft 2 and a bit of Wine - Linux PerformanceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-78529502367033793182011-04-25T23:18:29.163-05:002011-04-25T23:18:29.163-05:00I have a dual-boot setup win7 ubuntu 10.10, StarCr...I have a dual-boot setup win7 ubuntu 10.10, StarCraft II works like a charm in wine, reun same client from windows (thanks to blizzard portable installs) even with compiz activated, no bugs(well maybe exept that moving my mouse so the corners still triggers compiz actions), video performance droped to about 70% but still 50 fps average in low, completly playable, It is ok considering Im still multitasking the laptop...,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-79195585846395572982010-10-15T00:08:45.759-05:002010-10-15T00:08:45.759-05:00Instead of qqing your little bronze brains out, wh...Instead of qqing your little bronze brains out, why don't you try playing some custom games instead of laddering? Voilà, no losses! Every map tyT you play in ladder is available on custom.<br /><br />And if you can't bear the thought of losing a few ranks in bronze then I suggest you stop playing sc2 and go play some WoW, where rank actually matters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-3559577295652733022010-10-08T10:50:02.233-05:002010-10-08T10:50:02.233-05:00On my system, GoldenEye 007 via Project64 on both ...On my system, GoldenEye 007 via Project64 on both XP and Vista has a frequent audio stutter. Tried it in Ubuntu through Wine and the problem's gone :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-38735450275827785772010-10-03T10:33:54.872-05:002010-10-03T10:33:54.872-05:00I am a happy owner of SC II Retail version. So I s...I am a happy owner of SC II Retail version. So I started to play with my Vista with and old misconception that Win is 4 gaming and Linux is 4 "serious stuff" like everyday usage :)<br /><br />It occured to me that while playing under windows my Starcraft had a load of "lags" or "spikes", not possible to explain in any way other than winsucks. Seriously. I ran FurMark, Prime95, memtest86. I ran SMART tests on my hard drives - thinking "it must be my laptop". Well, it ain't.<br /><br />Back to my weathered customized Gentoo - with compiz disabled (under openbox) Starcarft II works as a charm. No lags, no spikes, no problems and decend graphics.pibishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373579704884724169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-77220436405860606632010-09-30T14:15:21.553-05:002010-09-30T14:15:21.553-05:00@Joshua:
This is a little late and not a solution ...@Joshua:<br />This is a little late and not a solution to the problem, but if you want to stop having the problem of not being able to leave the black screen then you need to have wine emulate a desktop for you. run<br /><br />winecfg<br /><br />in a terminal, select the "Graphics" tab, and click on the "Emulate a virtual desktop" checkbox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-44190641732386714432010-08-07T18:10:55.912-05:002010-08-07T18:10:55.912-05:00sorry i keep posting here but I keep running into ...sorry i keep posting here but I keep running into things with starcraft 2. It installed fine and went through the entire intro videe, then the screen went black and never comes back, and whats worse i cant exit the full screen of black and have to force my tower to shutdown. any ideas? I really appreciate your help.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06890492512534266962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-39290168566615803752010-07-30T08:06:11.231-05:002010-07-30T08:06:11.231-05:00I've similar experience with StarCraft 2 on my...I've similar experience with StarCraft 2 on my (K)Ubuntu / ThinkPad + Nvidia and Wine 1.2... See: http://bit.ly/93zxVd (German)Cymaphorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08031592740434405500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-31742749657442494842010-07-29T00:47:31.038-05:002010-07-29T00:47:31.038-05:00Left 4 Dead 2 is entirely unreliable under windows...Left 4 Dead 2 is entirely unreliable under windows 7. Sometimes does not start, sometimes hangs, sometimes it takes down the whole windows sound on exit and other weird things.<br /><br />I runs flawlessly on wine and since it is a bit plain on the graphic side, FPS is not a serious issue.vmphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18172568217105448018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-67573403190895153172010-07-24T08:13:50.244-05:002010-07-24T08:13:50.244-05:00There is a patch you need to build the Wine source...There is a patch you need to build the Wine source with, I talked about that a small bit here - http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/05/some-wine-with-your-starcraft-2.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-19023777740541074172010-07-23T23:28:22.572-05:002010-07-23T23:28:22.572-05:00did you have to do anything extra to get the beta ...did you have to do anything extra to get the beta to work or did you merely install the game and run under wineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-71616164066757617102010-06-03T22:32:59.117-05:002010-06-03T22:32:59.117-05:00One of my friends in college had a quad-os setup o...One of my friends in college had a quad-os setup on his fairly old laptop--XP, Vista, Ubuntu, and Mac OS. One day, we decided to take FPS measurements in one of our favorite games, City of Heroes, using the three operating systems which could run it (XP, Vista and Ubuntu in wine). We went to an area with known bad FPS issues, and took measurements; XP got 14 FPS, Wine got 13, and Vista got 3. We suspect the frame rate under vista was tanking due to massive page faulting, since there was only 1 gb of RAM on that computer; the game needed 800 megs or so, and both XP and linux were ok on the remaining 200. Not so much for vista.<br /><br />Also, Sim Tower doesn't work easily in vista, even when trying to run in compatibility mode. After fiddling with it for a few minutes, I rebooted in linux, installed on wine, set to win95 and away I went.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-14417249047373960182010-05-28T18:36:11.329-05:002010-05-28T18:36:11.329-05:00Good, in Linux we can build an entire reimplementa...Good, in Linux we can build an entire reimplementation of windows in 15 years to run windows games, in some cases even better than the Linux native ones.<br /><br />And the irony is that in Linux land it seems impossible to achieve decent video performance due to the graphics stack mess. Sad but true.<br /><br />Each new X.org incarnation keeps the crappy performance, includes new bugs that never get solved, and breaks working video drivers.<br /><br />I hope the Wine guys implement terminal services under Wine so I can have at last a decent remote control system on Linux that doesn't run slow as hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-48332095749841836152010-05-27T10:34:04.395-05:002010-05-27T10:34:04.395-05:00What is lacking is benchmarks results or at least ...What is lacking is benchmarks results or at least comments about Wine performance ! <br />I think the best place should be winehqdb for thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-6645755676761654272010-05-27T10:15:27.280-05:002010-05-27T10:15:27.280-05:00I play on Wine since 2005 and the credits goes to ...I play on Wine since 2005 and the credits goes to playonlinux for that.<br />I enjoy Red Alert 3, Half life 2, Call of duty series and many RTS....<br />About performance, i would say that typically Wine is performing with 50% less Framepersecond than running the game in Windows.<br />But nowadays, and provided you have a decent Nvidia card, you can enjoy 50fps in almost all working titles...(no so bad !)<br />A few titles works better in Wine : IL46, Company of heroes (rock stable even online) , COD 2.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-4534900178895784412010-05-26T19:34:20.387-05:002010-05-26T19:34:20.387-05:00I have found my playstation emulator to work flawl...I have found my playstation emulator to work flawlessly under wine and with subpar quality in windows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-10355244151591431182010-05-26T18:56:10.523-05:002010-05-26T18:56:10.523-05:00My own experience with the Half-Life 2 series unde...My own experience with the Half-Life 2 series under WINE is similar. It performs better, and at higher video settings under WINE (running on a debian box) than it does under XP, Vista, and Vista-7.Kevin Benkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04208262998783301251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-92098230614808922532010-05-26T17:49:28.771-05:002010-05-26T17:49:28.771-05:00Back in 2004 I installed photoshop on windows 2000...Back in 2004 I installed photoshop on windows 2000 and on a 2.6 based gentoo installation.<br /><br />* displaying the app was smoother in windows<br />* effect calculation was actually faster in linux<br /><br />This is quite strange, as it looks like the the wine layer is faster in mapping than native windowsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-87120642616971735572010-05-26T17:30:21.114-05:002010-05-26T17:30:21.114-05:00I use Linux to enter notes into Finale 2008 (under...I use Linux to enter notes into Finale 2008 (under WINE) because Finale's MIDI input lags under my Windows XP install and gets increasingly out of time with my playing. Entering notes under WINE has no lag, although I still have to boot into Windows to print my final projects, due to some glitches that appear under WINE.S. Christian Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01735180543452614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-21393084273255369072010-05-26T13:43:25.340-05:002010-05-26T13:43:25.340-05:00Sounds like you may have had a bad driver for the ...Sounds like you may have had a bad driver for the ethernet. Built-in windows drivers can be like that. <br /><br />Windows 7 is a very quick, sleek, beautiful system but in the end, it's still windows.Kevin (Whizard72)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17588463367019332598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-84024955680706996602010-05-26T10:37:22.300-05:002010-05-26T10:37:22.300-05:00Now I can finally play Yofrankie on my Linux Compu...Now I can finally play Yofrankie on my Linux Computer.<br />The native version has plenty of display problems on my GeForce4 MX-440, while the windows version under wine works perfectly. -THIS- is irony!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-9701870800684615542010-05-26T10:36:17.826-05:002010-05-26T10:36:17.826-05:00I have seen the same thing several times. Not all ...I have seen the same thing several times. Not all games work under Wine but when they do they tend to be more stable than the same game in Windows itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-80139257485352357512010-05-26T07:40:50.822-05:002010-05-26T07:40:50.822-05:00I find that Internet Explorer 6 works better under...I find that Internet Explorer 6 works better under Wine for me than in a native install. I suspect it is because my windows IE6 install was corrupted somehow, but my Linux version keeps chugging along.<br /><br />I use PlayOnLinux to have separate wineprefixes for every application, and separate settings. Right now I have the following Wine apps installed: Theme Hospital, Google Sketchup, IE6, Microsoft Office, Steam, Stronghold, The Elder Scrolls - Oblivion, and The Sims 3.PeEllhttp://mortalpowers.com/noreply@blogger.com