wine: vanilla vs CSMT (d3dstream) vs Gallium nine vs Catalyst

How to achieve the best possible performance with wine? I compared vanilla wine using latest radeonsi open source drivers, wine with the CSMT (d3dstream) patchset and wine with the Gallium nine patchset. I also compared the results to latest Catalyst drivers using wine patched with CSMT (d3dstream). Surprisingly radeonsi + gallium nine beats Catalyst + […]

By , September 14th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Open Source Graphic Drivers | One comment

A new linuxsystems overlay: wine-nine

This overlay allows you to build latest git version of mesa and wine with the gallium nine patches. Wine has to translate DirectX => OpenGL => Gallium, which add complications and brings inefficiency. Thanks to the gallium nine state tracker we simply skip the OpenGL translation. More info here: http://ixit.cz/faster-wine-games-with-open-source-drivers-d3d9-aka-gallium-nine/

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By , September 14th, 2014 | Tags: , , , | Category: Open Source Graphic Drivers, Packages | Leave a comment