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This game have troubles and with vanilla runs around 20fps in menus and 25fps in game
But PBA improve performance so much
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
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This game in many zombies area fps stay around 30 to 38fps in vanilla
With PBA frame are more smoother but added csmt too improve (can rotate camera without impact fps)
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
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Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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This title with vanilla dont give more 30 to 35fps
But now with PBA
Spoiler, click me
Curiously added CSMT + PBA give very similar fps
^_^
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This game in vanilla give around in same scene 30fps and with csmt around 45fps
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wine-staging-pba-git/
Can't speak for anybody else, but on my AMD Radeon RX480 I've had the best results with CSMT enabled (who'd thunk, eh?) in winecfg as well as the following env variables set:
env WINEDEBUG=-all __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 __GL_YIELD=USLEEP __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 wine64 <yourwineapp>In the sinner that started it - world of warcraft - I experienced a massive fps increase in my druid order hall with DirectX11, jumping from 15-25fps and up to 25-85fps. Numbers of course differ depending on where I am, but generally my framerate has increased radically all over the game.
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Improvement is very good without csmt: cpu usage is lower (core 0 dont stay at 99% in vanilla) and dont show screen flickering like vanilla only
And with csmt give huge fps boost
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Curiously PBA + CSMT hurt fps around 10fps
^_^
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
I tried it as-is with NeverWinter Online, and in the main city (Protector's Enclave) I got a +15 FPS increase. However, the increase in frame rate was negated by awful stuttering and random graphical glitches.
I'm not really familiar with all the terminology surrounding wine so I left all settings to "default". I'm downloading WoW now so should be able to test that shortly as well. Presumably, CSMT is already enabled in 3.3 so no need to worry about that?
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Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
View PC info
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^
View PC info
Vanilla + PBA
Spoiler, click me
Vanilla + PBA + CSMT
Spoiler, click me
^_^