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Latest Comments by mrdeathjr
What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
10 Mar 2017 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

In my case more testing than playing but in middle of this test some things case

Fear 3 (DX11 works but light dont show correctly, videos not too)

View video on youtube.com

Also test ffmpeg 3.24 with nvenc 7.1 (waiting for sdk 8.0) and works good

View video on youtube.com

Back to wine test various titles case:

I am Setsuna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85a2I6PsOFM [External Link]

Dragon Age Origins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pggIxgJ4vp0 [External Link]

Fear 3 DX9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALyAABqCIx8 [External Link]

Riddick Dark Athena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af42IOEQm60 [External Link]

Exodus from Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaKV_zbm6M [External Link]

Hitman Blood Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgk1BrEfULk [External Link]

Driv3r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgk1BrEfULk [External Link]

Simpsons Hit and Run

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

Pac-Man Ghostly Adventures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JzYvK29QM [External Link]

Toy Story 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW_YWaX_WQ8 [External Link]

And others

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Wine 2.3 released with more Direct3D command stream and Shader Model 5 work
5 Mar 2017 at 11:38 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlWine is clearly progressing with DX11 features, but performance will be another major area developers will need to address.

I'm not sure how much of this is caused by Mesa as well.

I hope someone with Nvidia blob and recent cards will post more benchmarks.
Interesting but tesselation patch from Guillaume Charifi is possible cant aproved in main branch, staging is different thing

Because DX11 area depend of jozef kucia work, recently in wine-dev them talk about this*

*Apparently jozef kucia tesselation work appears more valid than Guillaume Charifi, however jozef kucia tesselation work dont uploaded

Without forget henri verbeet must be approved or reject patch

Respect performance traditionally dont have high priority for wine devs (staging are different) for them are is more important have function, test function (this is very important to approval patch), after this could be stay compatibility and after this appears performance

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Wine 2.3 released with more Direct3D command stream and Shader Model 5 work
4 Mar 2017 at 10:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

In this wine version more work related csmt are added (but in test some games and dont note changes at simple seek)

However more game begins needs xinput libraries as builtin to have input (case senran kagura: xinput1_4 and others)

View video on youtube.com

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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Feb 2017 at 1:04 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderCan't wait for April statistics to see if AMD CPU share has started to rise.

i myself planning to buy one in March :)
No in begins dont change much because main buyers are FX actual users, this users are amd actual cpu market share

However when appears ryzen 6 core + ht (someplace around april to june), ryzen 4 core + ht (after june) and ryzen based apus after H2 2017 maybe stay more interesting

Another potential buyers stay in users needs heavy multitasking case blender, 3dmax, some adobe programas and others

In before cited case ryzen appears very interesting because this apps use correctly core quantity compared with gaming (in gaming is more common use higher ipc with higher frecuencies)

Without forget pc cost is more cheaper than similar solution on intel (socket 2011v3)

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
20 Feb 2017 at 3:19 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestWorking fine here ,I just checked it.

The profile is GL Threaded Optimizations and you put in the value 0 then save that as a profile.

Then make a new rule for process ADVGame and use that profile for it.

Don't forget to save it also. Other than that don't know what else to tell you.
In last test works without create profile, only needs add this to launch parameters in steam

__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0
View video on youtube.com

System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 378.13 (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 (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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Wine 2.2 released with even more Shader Model 5 instructions and work towards Direct3D command stream
18 Feb 2017 at 12:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

In this wine version need for speed most wanted allow change settings in game without crash

View video on youtube.com

Another interesting title is codename outbreak, in this wine version works (in test cinematics dont, cinematics folder must be renamed)

View video on youtube.com

However first chapter is possible played but when try second chapter appears many graphic bugs

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
17 Feb 2017 at 1:13 am UTC

In other issue lego jurassic world x64 DX11 works with this drivers in wine 2.1 staging (no csmt)

View video on youtube.com

However dont have lego jurassic world DX9 performance (used same graphic options for DX9 and DX11 tests), without forget some problem related with audio

View video on youtube.com

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
16 Feb 2017 at 11:30 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI made a forum post about this.

The solution is to create a profile to disable the optimizations that the driver introduces.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2534/page=2
Thanks

In my case game dont crash with profile but still in black, sound works without issues

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
16 Feb 2017 at 4:10 pm UTC

This driver version works ok with wine 2.1 (in some titles appears improvement)

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

However deadfall adventures native try begins but menu appears in black, after this game crash (works correctly in 375)

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