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Wine pulls in code to eliminate a Vulkan performance issue for wow64
4 March 2024 at 4:14 pm UTC Likes: 7

Liam Dawe this update also phoronix have same error dont have relation directly with performance, have more relation with game stability aka suddenly crashes

VK_EXT_map_memory_placed solve a existing nasty issue in wine related with virtual memory and this nasty issue stay various years without proper fix

this nasty issue provoke a many games crash suddenly, is more notorious when you use higher resolutions*

*still in my case with lower resolution in virtual desktop provoke crashes

in my case is notorious too because i make long gameplays, my priority with wine stay related stability and compatibility
in long test you can observe if game show crashes, laa issues, audio issues, input issues and other things required to run

also in long test you have more chances like a nasty bug as virtual memory can appear in any moment

some titles tested by myself and other users reports are anno 1404 - anno 1701 - dark sector - hard reset - race driver grid - xmen origins wolverine and many others

continuing with testing, i compile lastest wine-git of yesterday march 01 (oibaf amd mesa drivers of today march 02), in this wine as commented before as added VK_EXT_map_memory_placed

and results are very impressive:




anno 1404 fix crash when try loading game without laa




dark sector fix crash in prologue scene if stay alone, maybe comment more later about fix crash when finish 1st chapter (another around 2 hours of gameplay video to trash XXXDDDDD)




007 legends have sound correctly and modded aspect ratio too without laa flag





at simple seek can recommend have lastest amd mesa oibaf drivers aka today drivers march 02 for use VK_EXT_map_memory_placed

resuming if next wine comes with VK_EXT_map_memory_placed like git, progess will be huge because virtual memory issue stay so many years in wine

another huge improvement appear in xmen origins wolverine, in before tests this game show crashes suddenly

but now with lastest mesa drivers and wine-git dont show any crash in 2 hours of gameplay




Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
8 February 2024 at 8:13 pm UTC Likes: 3

In my case stay working ok

non native



with lastest oibaf mesa the king of fighters XIV seems fixed however have a minor issue when is used special move

native





using bioshock infinite works ok

almost forget as non related topic, today stay making bioshock infinite gameplay video and think begin update my amd testing topic but the king of fighters XIV work*

*for this reason test this title and after this i think begin update amd testing topic, i hope so (but if add some title more like devilutionx, update stay around 66 titles**)

**


Diablo game engine devilutionX fixes up multiplayer in v1.5.2
7 February 2024 at 4:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

In my case stay work with zink




Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
29 January 2024 at 1:54 am UTC

In other interesting result with kof xiv* (is a opengl 4.3 app) in my case appear various rendering errors with native implementation

* i think about add to test with zink for fix various things but add other issues, however appears funny like this:




Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
27 January 2024 at 9:02 pm UTC Likes: 5

​This wine version come with some interesting things case dead rising fixed bug related wmv

however in my case appear in black using wined3d implementation and with dxvk remains equal on infinite loading (sometimes work, sometimes dont)

but in good news other titles work in my vega 7 oc (4gb of vram force on bios)





in control is impressive, runs much better than i had geforce gtx 1050 2gb, thanks to much larger vram avalaible​

Also wine 9.1 staging ubuntu deb packages stay avalaible on:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/

almost forget update with titles tested on vega 7 oc stay close, only need around 3 or 4 tests more
i think stay around 50 gameplay videos (native apps and non native apps)


Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1 (1996) TR1X gets a big bug-fix release
16 January 2024 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 5

In my case stay running with zink





if anyone stay searching GAME.BIN, with gog in my case file are named GAME.GOG

i found alternative to ultraiso on linux, use cdemu

https://launchpad.net/~cdemu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

and select GAME.GOG after this appear mounted and only need copy files to target location


Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode
21 December 2023 at 8:13 am UTC Likes: 1

​oibaf ppa update drivers and now 1.3.274 stay avalaible



and using ffmpeg-vulkan branch (https://github.com/cyanreg/FFmpeg/tree/vulkan) on encoders appear h264_vulkan



however when try compile show error related to new extensions




Claim a free copy of Lost Ruins during the GOG Winter Sale
19 December 2023 at 10:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: mrdeathjr[some links]

Did you bought it all?

i dont have enough money because update machine, however i buying some things most old (in my case like more old games than newer but when discount is too much maybe can consider case dishonored 2 and *comanche)

* i testing using my ryzen 5 4600g with vega 7 @ 2300mhz on custom settings, run around 60fps but if stay recording need put dxvk frame limit more lower case 50fps for prevent gpu load stay close to 100% and give errors in recording


Claim a free copy of Lost Ruins during the GOG Winter Sale
19 December 2023 at 1:01 pm UTC Likes: 2

Another titles with 90%:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/mortal_shell

https://www.gog.com/en/game/remothered_tormented_fathers

https://www.gog.com/en/game/remothered_broken_porcelain

https://www.gog.com/en/game/cris_tales

https://www.gog.com/en/game/state_of_mind

https://www.gog.com/en/game/comanche

https://www.gog.com/en/game/lichdom_battlemage

https://www.gog.com/en/game/mordheim_city_of_the_damned

https://www.gog.com/en/game/apsulov_end_of_gods

https://www.gog.com/en/game/port_royale_2

https://www.gog.com/en/game/urban_trial_freestyle

https://www.gog.com/en/game/venetica

https://www.gog.com/en/game/outcast_second_contact

https://www.gog.com/en/game/legend_of_kay_anniversary

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ghost_master

https://www.gog.com/en/game/meridian_new_world

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fear_effect_sedna


this titles stay around 85% of discount:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_evil_within

https://www.gog.com/en/game/thief_definitive_edition

https://www.gog.com/en/game/anima_gate_of_memories

https://www.gog.com/en/game/shadow_ops_red_mercury

https://www.gog.com/en/game/blazblue_calamity_trigger

https://www.gog.com/en/game/faces_of_war

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tinytopia

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_moto_racer_collection

https://www.gog.com/en/game/urban_trial_playground

https://www.gog.com/en/game/urban_trial_tricky_deluxe_edition

https://www.gog.com/en/game/serious_sam_the_first_encounter

https://www.gog.com/en/game/serious_sam_the_second_encounter

https://www.gog.com/en/game/shadowgrounds

https://www.gog.com/en/game/soulbringer

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tower_hunter_erzas_trial

https://www.gog.com/en/game/mars_war_logs

https://www.gog.com/en/game/rune_classic

https://www.gog.com/en/game/expendable

https://www.gog.com/en/game/hotel_giant

https://www.gog.com/en/game/hotel_giant_2

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_sexy_brutale

https://www.gog.com/en/game/driver_parallel_lines

https://www.gog.com/en/game/xblades_hd


Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now
18 December 2023 at 8:10 pm UTC

Quoting: legluondunetI had the pleasant surprise of being able to launch "just cause 2" again from Steam, without having to tinker, just install and play. It's been several months since the game stopped launching on my computer. I don't know if this is related to an update of Proton or the MESA AMD video drivers or ...

I test in my case more later, last time dont work (GOG version here also have steam version too but prefer GOG)