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How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33976&iTestingId=94520)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.14 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33993&iTestingId=94582)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.14 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- medium settings (Native vs Wine vs Wine Staging)
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13152&iTestingId=94608)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.14 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=26351&iTestingId=94606)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.14 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- medium settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.com](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34004&iTestingId=94612)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33864&iTestingId=94613)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
As you already used it, you sure saw the differences with the other 2 versions in terms of fps boost, fluidity and stability.
I almost always found out that Gallium Nine not only gives you more fps (sometimes 2-3 times more) but it prevents the fps-drops that are extremely annoying and happen most of the time when using vanilla Wine.
I honestly don't care to play a game at 80 or 100 fps, if then it drops to 10-15 every time you move the mouse around, I will gladly switch to a solid 30 fps but with no further drops.
Gallium Nine gives you that (plus more fps), it raises the minimum fps a LOT, just check the [F.E.A.R benchmark screenshots](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/gamingonlinux/#jp-carousel-900) I did when I was using a 7850, and compare the minimum fps between the 3 versions.
I played a lot of other games with that Pc and I remember that with a game (inMomentum) I had like 20-30 fps with Wine (with drops), a slightly better performance with Staging (25-35) and a solid 60fps without drops with Gallium Nine!!
With your hardware you can try a freebie like Planetside 2 that runs great on Wine and amazingly with Gallium Nine!
I hope it gets added like it happened with Wine Staging..
To answer your second question,
yes I had some problems with Company on Heroes where the shadows where rendered too dark (wine 1.9.10) and with Rome: Total War, where the performances didn't change when switching from vanilla to G9 (no idea why but I didn't investigate too much).
Aside for these it was always a big improvement! :)
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18433&iTestingId=94630)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- default settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34014&iTestingId=94640)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- low settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34016&iTestingId=94647)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- default settings
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24652&iTestingId=94651)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- medium preset (Wine vs Wine Staging)
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34024&iTestingId=94662)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- "best quality" preset (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=28709&iTestingId=94669)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- custom settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33956&iTestingId=94674)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
View PC info
Quite impressed overall tbh.
Can you share the command for displaying the info graph in game? I can add how AMD is shaping up, though pontostroy on the gearsongallium site does a good job
Been trying to get the AMDGPU branch of radeon-profile to work too but segfaults for me :'(
Yes MESA is a great project and we're super lucky to have all these goods :)
Last time I used GALLIUM_HUD was with 11.2.2 on AMD, with NOUVEAU 12.0.1 some options were missing (like "gpu load" ), but I think it's a NOUVEAU thing.
You can check what's available to be displayed by running (glxgears as example):
GALLIUM_HUD=help glxgears
Then choose whatever you want to display, hud size, etc..
You can also run glxgears -fullscreen to tweak your hud even better
The one that I used with the first posts on this thread was (for 1080p):
GALLIUM_HUD_PERIOD=0.08 GALLIUM_HUD=".h80.w410.c100cpu0+cpu1+cpu2+cpu3;.x460.h80.w960.dfps;.x1450.h80.w440temperature+GPU-load"
You can check other stuff here too:
[scroll to "Gallium environment variables"](http://mesa3d.org/envvars.html)
View PC info
- high preset (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34030&iTestingId=94678)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/) ··· [games tested so far](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/linuxgaming/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- custom settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17740&iTestingId=95182)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/) ··· [games tested so far](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/linuxgaming/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm
- very high preset (Wine vs Wine Staging)
View video on youtube.com
[winehq.org](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4750&iTestingId=94570)
[PC#13](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pc13/) ··· [games tested so far](https://manerosss.wordpress.com/linuxgaming/)
Antergos + OpenBox
Nvidia 367.35
Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm