Quoting: AlzarathI've been unable to install Dawngate since 1.7.18 and this didn't fix it, sadly. I think it has something to do with the fact the installer is a .msi. Maybe I'll install it on a virtualbox and see if it runs afterwards. Before all this the game ran fantastically.

Quoting: AnonymousI hope it feels like Burnout Paradise instead of GRID.

I spent 4 hours last night trying to get Burnout running in Wine 1.7.18 on PlayOnLinux :(

I'll have to see more promo videos, it looks great.

Also looking forward to the "Arcade 90s Racing Game" for Linux :)

Quoting: mrdeathjr

Quoting: Anonymousany news on the CMST patch front?

Much part of csmt code its added on wine recent versions (this situation have described for stefan dosinger) but all work not integrated for now, crossover seem have it

But at this time, wine 1.8 stay more closer and CSMT has mentionated for wine 1.8 release criteria as other users said

Something more, CSMT results can vary depend game, in ones give more performance in others its equal, in others is worst or in others give graphic bugs

On my channel have some csmt test if you need

http://www.youtube.com/user/mrdeathjr28

Also other channels as xpander also have csmt results

^_^

Quoting: Anonymousany news on the CMST patch front?

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: SkullyYes Linux is multithread and more cores win, but that doesn't apply to games yet. Most games are still using 1, sometimes 2 and rarely 4. So most games run *** due to poor single core performance and they also stink at floating point calculations due to having a shared fpu unit in each module.
Then take into account that the fx-8350 runs at 3.9ghz and boosts to 4.1, while the i7 is 3.6 with boost to 3.9. An I5 would be everybit as good for gaming as my i7 due to games using 4 or less cores.

eg. Serious sam 3 on Linux. In the performance options cpu performance, my fx8350 has to be set to lowest or framerate drops below 60 alot. My i7 can have it on ultra. same distro, same gpu

i dunno what you talking about really... check those videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVGwj1_Qno

FPS difference in games is minimal.. and when it comes to running other things at the same time when gaming then AMD pulls ahead quite a lot compared to same priced CPUs from intel

also i dunno what issues you had then... i have SS3 on ultra and my 8320 at 4.2ghz with no such drops..
probably you had ondemand governor when those issues happened.. this is known to suck under linux with amd cpus.

edit: also theres __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 to make some singlethreaded games at least run rendering on second thread.. which boosts performance quite a bit on AMD CPUs that suck on single core stuff.. And when you play windows games in wine theres CSMT patchset that does that.. + luckly many games starting to use more than 2 cores lately.. spcialy thanks to new console generation that has the same AMD CPUs... like it or not but many games come from consoles to PC...

Quoting: AnonymousYou are awesome with your wine lol xD You seem to manage to make everything works so well xD How do you do it lol

Quote-Virtual memory register needed for starwars force unleashed 1

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21536

-Keyboard doesn't work in games launched from Steam when using virtual desktop

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21770

-Skyrim needs more video memory (this bug apparently ffects more on AMD users)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29991

-Radeon HD6670 detected as HD3200 (this bug occurs on various AMD cards)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31891

-And now recognize GTX760 (This card is detected as 8800GTX) and Geforce GTX 750

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3548

Quoting: Xpanderwell yeah CPU doesnt really make difference in Valley, because its focused on GPU testing

on wine ofc it does... but GPU not much.

nowadays most games are on shader units.. instead of raw core clocks.
oldschool games might get improvements..but then again oldschool games run superbly anyway with stock clocks

edit: i will try to do some more wine tests if i have time.. but on wine CPU frequency is most important... core count isnt that important unless you run CSMT.
GPU performance on wine is bottlenecked by all kinds of direct3d bugs.. but with CSMT enabled (forcing rendering to other core) it can improve a lot..cause it takes heat off from the 1 and only core that wine wants to use.