Dear All,
I was wondering if anyone had any tips on boosting the performance of my card (HD 7850 1GB) when used with the Catalyst drivers. I find that this card works really well for native stuff from Steam and so on, but with wine it tends to struggle a bit - this is a problem as I really really want to play Skyrim :-D On Windows I can get full frame rate (60+ fps) with top settings at 1280x1024 (the highest my monitor supports), but the game just runs very laggy on wine, even with the lowest resolution and settings - not quite playable because of this.
Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the work AMD and the community have done with regards to catalyst, r600g, radeonsi and so on, and understand that performance is bound to lag behind the Windows driver somewhat, especially with a translation layer like wine. That said, I was wondering if there was anything other people with similar hardware had tried with regards to tweaks, in order to eak more performance out of wine (and in particular Skyrim)?
A quick rundown of my system specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1045t
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
M/B: Asus M4A78-LT-M LE
Primary storage: 120GB Samsung SSD
Graphics: ASUS Radeon HD 7850 1GB DirectCU
Distro: Fedora 18 (64-bit)
Graphics driver: AMD Catalyst 13.4 (64-bit)
I really appreciate anything people can suggest. Many thanks.
Regards,
Phil Potter
I was wondering if anyone had any tips on boosting the performance of my card (HD 7850 1GB) when used with the Catalyst drivers. I find that this card works really well for native stuff from Steam and so on, but with wine it tends to struggle a bit - this is a problem as I really really want to play Skyrim :-D On Windows I can get full frame rate (60+ fps) with top settings at 1280x1024 (the highest my monitor supports), but the game just runs very laggy on wine, even with the lowest resolution and settings - not quite playable because of this.
Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the work AMD and the community have done with regards to catalyst, r600g, radeonsi and so on, and understand that performance is bound to lag behind the Windows driver somewhat, especially with a translation layer like wine. That said, I was wondering if there was anything other people with similar hardware had tried with regards to tweaks, in order to eak more performance out of wine (and in particular Skyrim)?
A quick rundown of my system specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1045t
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
M/B: Asus M4A78-LT-M LE
Primary storage: 120GB Samsung SSD
Graphics: ASUS Radeon HD 7850 1GB DirectCU
Distro: Fedora 18 (64-bit)
Graphics driver: AMD Catalyst 13.4 (64-bit)
I really appreciate anything people can suggest. Many thanks.
Regards,
Phil Potter
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