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 + […]

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/

This patchset is maintained by […]

New ebuild: app-emulation/wine-1.7.24 CSMT (d3dstream)

You can find it in the wine-d3dstream overlay: http://www.linuxsystems.it/overlay/

A new linuxsystems overlay: wine

Latest wine version is currently 1.7.26 while latest version available in gentoo repositories is only 1.7.21. This overlay allows you to build latest version of wine with pulseaudio, pipelight (compholio) and gstreamer support.

You can find my app-emulation/wine-1.7.26 ebuild in the new wine overlay: http://www.linuxsystems.it/overlay/

radeonsi vs Catalyst 3DMark wine benchmarks

If a big team like CD Projekt RED thinks that using a wrapper layer like eON by Virtual Prgramming is a suitable solution for a AAA game port like The Witcher 2, who am I to ditch wine (which performs even better than eON)? I might even speak about benchmarking a native linux 3DMark version […]

A new linuxsystems overlay: wine-d3dstream

This overlay allows you to build latest git version of wine with the D3D command stream patches which create a separate command stream / worker thread for WineD3D. This work moves OpenGL calls into a seperate thread in order to improve performance up to 50~100% and in some cases making the games under Wine faster […]