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Wine 2.6 released and it finally brings in the multi-threaded command stream for Direct3D
13 Apr 2017 at 9:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShmerlYep, that's it. It should be like this:

csmt_on.reg

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] 
"csmt"=dword:1


And I removed that staging dll redirect. It's pointless with this.
Holy shit works (need for speed hot pursuit show both cores at 99%, normaly only use 1 core to 99%) :woot:

In my case add CSMT in wined3d as dword as your said with 1 in value

Many thanks

Update: in hot pursuit use both cores at 99% but performance remains equal

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Wine 2.6 released and it finally brings in the multi-threaded command stream for Direct3D
13 Apr 2017 at 8:01 pm UTC

Quoting: m0nt3Yeah, I know. But the performance advantage of gallium-nine is jaw dropping.Was playing Diablo 3 with my friend who has ryzen and a 1080 and my ryzen and rx 480 was getting double the fps about 70 vs 140. I get 70-90 FPS in crysis 1. Gallium-nine has just really impressed me. Even play CoD4 multiplayer online. I remember get nothing but graphical glitches and crashes in CoD 4 a handful of years ago. Come a long way.

It is great to see this in mainline finally, been a long time coming.
Many games are usable in actual wine, any games when minimum stay above 40fps is acceptable for most users yeah is dont ideal but is playable

And have support, in my case personally devs solved various bugs sended and many other bugs posted for other users

However nine is usefull in certain scenarios when have lower cpu for example case amd kabini - beema - mullins plataform or intel atom (gpu driver suck compared amd), in this case still dont have support is only way run games acceptable

Back to csmt dont be out until henri verbeet finish csmt work related

But in lastest releases more and more work are added, this reasons give to think about could be a little chance of csmt release

But no appear any definitive notice about that, until today when them surprised with this wine release, one day before regular release (normally appears friday)

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Wine 2.6 released and it finally brings in the multi-threaded command stream for Direct3D
13 Apr 2017 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: m0nt3gallium-nine is a lot faster, well at least for DX9 titles and those on open source drivers.

Wonder if there are plans for vulkan in the future, that should be interesting.
Yes nine is faster but without support*, compatibility and other things dont give most change

*this maybe dont change according wine devs

Mainline wine have complete support, compatibility, works in all hardware, all type of drivers, all supported systems, ports with wine case topware titles and other things

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Wine 2.6 released and it finally brings in the multi-threaded command stream for Direct3D
13 Apr 2017 at 7:15 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlFinally. The Witcher 3 with 2.5 staging hasn't improved much (I just tested it). I'll wait for 2.6 staging to catch up for more tests.
Wine 2.6 give many interesting issues in DX11 related as precompile shaders for compute shaders (tomb raider DX11 could be afffected by this)

And other things

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Wine 2.5 released with 30 bug fixes and various improvements
1 Apr 2017 at 12:55 am UTC Likes: 4

In this wine some intro video type case melty bood again current code begin works

View video on youtube.com

Respect DX11 in neptunia character rendering error remains same and same situation for trackmania turbo

However audio in neptunia VII improve compared wine 2.4

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You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 1:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

In my case use performance mode and give more fps in native apps and non native apps case wine

Quoting: M@GOidFor a more easy way to change the settings, install the package "indicator-cpufreq"("sudo apt install indicator-cpufreq" for those of you in Ubuntu).

It will show a icon in your taskbar were with 2 mouse clicks you can change to the Performance governor and back.

I use it for both AMD and Intel CPUs for years and it works great, for any DE.
Very good tip

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Wine 2.4 released, more Direct3D command stream work towards better performance
19 Mar 2017 at 12:13 pm UTC

Quoting: elmapulcan you test the other neptunia games? or did you tested already, how many of then can be played from the begining to the end fine?

i know some of then are rated gold or platinum on wineHQ, but they didnt test then all the last time i check
Hi

In my case i have tested neptunia rebirth 1 to 3 too and works good however devenum and quartz must be configured as native previously have before cited libraries in game executable folder

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

However especially related neptunia improves seriously when change GT630 for GTX 1050, neptunia 1-2 pass from 40-45fps to 60fps* and neptunia 3 pass to 30-35fps to 60fps*

*Still recording at 48fps, record at 48fps normally represent a fps loss around 15 to 20fps depending game

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Wine 2.4 released, more Direct3D command stream work towards better performance
18 Mar 2017 at 1:19 pm UTC Likes: 4

In this wine version add more work in csmt area (in senran kagura flickering in main menu is reduced considerably), maybe another titles with flickering possible show improvements

View video on youtube.com

Respect DX11 in trackmania turbo shows more textures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9flSvd6qJ8 [External Link]

Another interesting title is neptunia VII and now shows textures correctly compared last time, and now is possible see head character decorations and weapons in game (curiously character render dont appear and same with charecter render in talk sessions but in this sessions appears emotions icons)

View video on youtube.com

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What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
12 Mar 2017 at 12:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: saildataWhere were you when I was hand linking and compiling each.. individual.. codec.. asking myself do I really need this one too.. I can follow a recipe card lol. Live and learn.

I completely agree with the "your mileage may vary" depending on the game.

I'm a total nerd and basically install it for either strategy or simulators.

You'd think that someone would put two and two together and figure out that sims would sell like crazy on Linux.. but alas I can only blame myself for giving into the temptations.. why should they port it when people like me jump through hoops so they don't have to..

I can, however, say that I still have my original 512GB Nvme with Windows 10 on it just in case Asus ever decides they will update their UEFI and I have to have my windows install to initiate it.

Even with that I haven't booted Windows (for more than the initial warranty registration) in about 3 years.. I had to dual boot in grad school.

If a Linux drive fails totally I'm wiping the factory one though.. just sayin :)

Have you seen anything/anywhere about the latest Rollercoaster Tycoon? People had originally said they would port it to Linux (it IS built on Unity..).

I want to verify before actually paying more than $10-$15 for a Windows game. E.g. Simple Planes... Love that game.

Honestly, as someone else said, the new X-PLANE 11 is amazing on Linux. Best (proprietary) Flight Sim I've used.

EDIT: I can't seem to properly quote a post ( smells like PHP >:-| )
Yeah have cuda - nvenc sdk and ffmpeg all enable is difficult but possible (with guides)

However another important detail respect screen casting is have hard drive dedicated to capture, in my case have one for system and other for screencasting (since around october stay using new hard drive for capture, one seagate survillance series VX001)

In arch them provides simple screen recorder with nvenc support

Windows is necessary still for various things, in my case have windows in another patition bacause anyone knows when is needed as your said

Respect roller coaster is supposed them can provide linux version, however this game type with many objects could be ideal to use vulkan (if them dont have work on opengl now)

I dont like flight simulators however this x-plane 11 is very heavy, remember ask huge hard drive space

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What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
11 Mar 2017 at 5:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: saildataI seriously had a partition with Ubuntu installed b/c my main rig broke my ffmpeg setup (GTX-1070).

The steps you have to jump through to get a FULL ffmpeg install on Ubuntu is not trivial, to say the least.

Anyways, I ran one last strace today and solved my nvidia-uvm module issues that had plagued me since I believe 4.9 (4.10.1 now).

So no more dual booting Arch with Ubuntu..

The performance is better than before, with cuda 8.0 and they added vp9_cuvid, (decode only), making it easy to do full hw transpiling (*_cuvid) -> (hevc).

I think GPU to GPU transfers are something like 8X faster than RAM to GPU, and who knows about disk to GPU.

I tested today with transpiling a 8k video down to 4k and it was somewhere around 80 or so fps. CPU was around 8-12% b/c I was also on Steam/YouTube lol (@Liam -- that's what 64GB of RAM is for :))

Thanks for your YouTube content as well! I've watched several when trying to determine if something runs on Wine or not ;)

Oh, and to answer the forum question -- Civ6 and DiRT Rally.

Also, I highly recommend Typoman to anyone who hasn't played it/looking for a recommendation outside the other 90% mentioned

.Cheers --
Have ffmpeg with nvenc in ubuntu is complicated as your said, various guides are needed case

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Installing-Nvidia-CUDA-on-Ubuntu-14-04-for-Linux-GPU-Computing [External Link]

At least can use libnpp with ffmpeg (i have reinstall cuda-8.0 but disable symlink to usr/local/cuda) and put /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64 in ld.so.conf after this ldconfig as sudo

Respect nvenc consume minor resources compare GT 630 GK208 (old card), in various titles is possible capture with cpu at 90% or more use without loss frames (this occurs in some titles with GT 630, in this cases is needed capture at 30fps)

Without forget install video driver manually and have all emus i have without no appears conflict dependencies is very dificult, various packages from ubuntu 14.04 are needed case various gtk libraries case pcsx2

One purpouse of channel is give a idea about which games runs in wine (native games and emulators too)

But most important objective is have large duration tests (at least 1st chapter of each game if possible)

Actually many games run in wine but most import is for how much run and which problems can appear in large sessions case:

-stability

-compatibility

-graphics behavior (glitchs if appears and others)

-audio behaviour (pulse, alsa in some games cases like zestiria, god eater 2 rage burst and others)

-input behavior (in which games xinput must be selected as built-in or native) mouse stay all time or leave after some time, actually various games begins need have xinput as built-in in wine cfg) and other issues

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