Quoting: ShmerlInteresting, it seems it works with Mesa better out of the box, than with Nvidia blob. I didn't need to install DX, and on RX480 it runs at 60fps on minimum settings. Did you monitor RAM usage? May be the game was swapping? Can you see your GPU load, was it maxing out? I suppose Nvidia GTX 960 is somewhat behind RX480, so it would be interesting if anyone with higher end Nvidia could post some benchmarks too.

By the way, did you enable CSMT?

It seems to be working better with Mesa indeed. I checked the memory and there's no swapping going on, CSMT is enabled but the GPU utilization never went beyond 64%, the screenshot below is the average of GPU usage.

I'm curious to see what would the performance look like with the RX480's Nvidia counterpart.

Here's resource usage:

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Here's How Witcher 3 runs on Wine Staging 2.3 for me. With everything on lowest details, frame rates didn't go any higher than 24fps. No Winetricks needed but the DirectX redistributable package must be installed otherwise performance will be worse and some graphics (especially character heads) will not be shown or completely black.

Like Shmerl, I didn't notice any non-graphical problems with the game. If they ever make a Vulkan renderer, it might actually work just fine under Wine.

System Specs:
Mint 17.3 (MATE Desktop)
Core i5-4590
8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 960 (375.26)

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Staging 2.3 has just been released in PPA Repos. Unfortunately performance in Guild Wars 2 is still 15-20fps less than 2.0 Staging. Meanwhile in Crysis Warhead there's 2-3 FPS more in Wine 2.3.

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Quoting: GrazenIt doesn't support 4K resolutions on Linux but they are fully supported on Windows :(

Try setting the resolution from the game's config file manually, it's located in '~/.local/share/unity3d/inXile Entertainment'

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I picked it yesterday but haven't had time to install it so far, glad it's working well.

Cheers Liam.

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Great news for AMD users, hopefully it will be enabled for Intel HD too one day (unless it's there already), Sometimes I'm stuck only with a laptop.

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Got new chassis for an AMD build ready here, so far it looks good and once benchmarks are up it's judgement day. 8 Cores / 16 Threads is hard to pass up.

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Compared to Staging-2.0 performance is much worse on Guild Wars 2, there's 7-20 frames fps loss. On the other hand in Crysis Warhead it stayed the same.

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Quoting: ShmerlHow long does it usually take for wine-staging to release their packages in their repos? It's still at 2.1 there.

Quoting: LeopardDevel or staging,which one is stable version?

Neither. But there is no point in using the stable version. Too many features are being added all the time. Staging has more bug fixes which are somewhat experimental still. I'm using staging for gaming.

It's normally a few days after the "normal" version, should be tomorrow or Tuesday.

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To anyone wondering how does the Linux port performs, it's wonderful. Tested the game on a low-end laptop with N2840 CPU (it's weaker than an i3 CPU) and the game still runs in the 50-60fps range.

Definitely a must buy game.

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