With the i9 incoming, it looks like the battle for CPU supremacy will shift on who can pack the most cores in 1 die. Over the years I have seen very little improvements in Single core performance since Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen i-Series). I think AMD are very much on balance with price/performance, got no regrets with my 1700X, those 8 cores are truly a multitasking boon.

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I wish Croteam would just release their games on GOG already, this is the kind of company I wish to support but can't due to DRM. Other than that I can only say, rock on Vulkan, these graphs are simply mind blowing and the API is great for low spec hardware.

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To anyone still on the 375* series, On Linux Mint 18 I installed the newly released 375.66 driver using the --no-drm option (Gigabyte GTX 1060) with the mainline 4.11 kernel. Installation went successful and any game I've tried works fine so far and the system is also very stable.

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Looks HOT I hope they also release it on GOG when it's done. As a non Space-RTS fan I'm still interested in this.

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I wonder how will this perform on Intel HD graphics. Not that I use my laptop much these days, but I've always wondered if I can squeeze a little more fps out of the i3-5005U processor.

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"We'll set up Linux as a dual boot....."

I'm really happy to see developers such as these, maybe I'm getting the wrong impression here but they might not be very familiar with Linux and yet they're still trying. Either way, these guys have my respect.

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While it has been discussed to death that WINE is not an Emulator, I think part of the reason it's misinterpreted that way is because it lets you run games written for a different operating system, similar to a PSX/2 Emulator.

From an "appearance" point of view, it can be seen that way but the mechanics are different. To be honest it's not as easy to explain it to a non technical person, more often than not it always ends up "what are system calls?" or "doesn't an emulator work like that?"

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Avehicle7887I get that message too in terminal, however the fps in my games is the same as if csmt is disabled.

That's because this CSMT is only partial implementation, and doesn't address all performance improvements yet [External Link].

That clears it up I guess, I'll wait for Staging 2.6 then before I do any further testing.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: adamhmI see this when CSMT is enabled:

err:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Setting multithreaded command stream to 0x1.

It means it works.

I get that message too in terminal, however the fps in my games is the same as if csmt is disabled.

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Has anyone managed to activate CSMT using the Wine from this repo?: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/pool/main/ [External Link]

I downloaded the 2.6 packages, everything works fine but there is no sign of CSMT, I tried to activate it with the registry key shmerl mentioned and didn't have any effect.

I even made a clean wine prefix to make sure the registry is clean from the previous wine-staging settings.

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