In staging patches appears some interesting patches by Nils Kuhnhenn, however dont approved by sebastian lackner

This is some information about this patches:

Improves heap allocation performance by balancing free lists and improving common bottlenecks.

Fixes Guild Wars 2 FPS decrease when it is running for a longer period of time and can almost double the FPS in big fights (World Bosses, WvW, etc...) by reducing the overhead of the memory allocator from ~30% CPU time to ~2%.

Don't use the "ntdll-Heap_FreeLists" patch from wine-staging when using this one (they have conflicting changes).
Author: Nils Kuhnhenn

And this related csmt

Requires: CSMT patches.

Can reduce CPU usage when using the CSMT patchset by up to 50% or sometimes even more.

Whether this translates into an FPS increase or an improvement in responsiveness depends on your OS and hardware (and game).
Author: Nils Kuhnhenn

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Another interesting progress appears in WRC 5 (in WRC 4 car paint appears correctly specially notorious in vw polo and hyundai i20)

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With wine 2.0rc2 (last test) game runs around 30fps (for this reason dont be possible recording at 48fps)

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But now with wine 2.11 game runs around 55fps (for this reason now is possible recording at 48fps)

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System Specs Used in Both Test

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

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In this wine version more d3d9 work related are added and flickering reduce in for example transformers devastation

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However CSMT=1 is required in most games with flickering problem

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As other said game works, in my case stable in lastest test

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System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 381.09 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 x64 - Kernel 4.8.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance
CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)
GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

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In other things in this wine64 staging version KOF XIV Steam Edition works (this game ask for opengl 4.3 on system requirements according steam game page)

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Another interesting thing is about DX10, some titles begin work case devil may cry 4 special edition

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In this wine staging version appears more games DX11 begins run case:

F1 Race Stars (need textures and colors)

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GRID 2 (suffer same DIRT 3 errors)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Y7cFeEEC4 [External Link]

DIRT 3 Complete Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hPRr3JYbc [External Link]

Battlefield 3 (extreme slow)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqe_0yNN7aE [External Link]

Another titles runs very good is

Sniper Elite Zombi Army Nation 1

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Sniper Elite Zombi Army Nation 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2RkrQu_nCc [External Link]

Without forget thief 2014 also runs and deus ex human revolution too

Thief 2014

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Deus Ex Human Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7lW46nNQ4 [External Link]

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Quoting: buenaventuraWhat does Staging mean, really? I've interpreted it as similar to "experimental" or some such.

As other said case legluondunet give this properties

However in my case i said shows this in practical terms

-Run games needs 1D textures case need for speed most wanted 2012

-Run games needs deffered context case shantae and pirates curse or mighty switch force

-Use uplay in online mode

-Use origin win 7 version

And other things

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In this wine version have some fixes case star wars the force unleashed 2, in this game sometimes dont render correctly character eyes and sometimes crash (in last test) dont possible finish 1st chapter without crashes

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Another interesting title is prototype, in before wine versions show crashes sometimes and audio problems

Without forget character render problem (running and walking animations)

In this wine version solve stability problem, audio problem and character render problem (CSMT=1* is required)

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*Also CSMT=1 still needed for solve graphic bugs, specially flickering related case: duke nuke forever, metal gear rising, bayonetta, vanquish, im alive, senran kagura shinovi versus, resident evil 6 and possible others, without forget give some boost in some games

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoDo Fallout 3 and Fallout: New vegas work fine with Wine?

I ask that because they were just released on GOG.

In my last test with wine 2.8 fallout 3 improve seriously (in wine appdb says since wine 2.6 improve) still using mods

In this gameplay runs smoothly and stable around 3 hours

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System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 381.22 (run package from nvidia homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 x64 - Kernel 4.8.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

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Quoting: ArehandoroStill can't play Final Fantasy IX :/ Keep receiving lots of d3d errors.

I played through FFIX with Wine version 2.0 with no graphical issues. Sometimes the sound started crackling but that can be solved by restarting.

In my case begins work since 2.1 without major issues and stable

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System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 378.09 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 x64 - Kernel 4.8.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

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