fglrx and Wine: Compatibility and performance

[d2kx]

Source engine DX9 render never worked with fglrx. So there clearly is something wrong with it...

[Melcar]

I guess it depends on the card. On all my machines (HD2900XT, HD3850, 200M) performance seems adequate on "new" games, on both Windows and Linux. I should mention, however, that games like the original CS won't even run anymore with the new driver sets (on Windows and Linux).

[Thetargos]

But I'm not discussing DirectX performance at all, I'm discussing OpenGL performance... With the figures I've seen with UT99, I'm afraid games such as Doom3 will be but a horrible experience if it ever runs in the first place!

[Melcar]

Doom3 runs fine on my HD2900XT and even on a old 9800PRO I use on a backup PC. On both, performance isn't that different from Windows. I never had any problems running any native Linux games with my ATI cards (while using the new drivers that is); Wine will always give you a big performance hit, which seems to be more pronounced with ATI cards.

[Thetargos]

My main interest in Wine would be 2D acceleration (traditionally not a strong point of the fglrx drivers)... I'll see how does Starcraft run, though.

[Thetargos]

Well, Starcraft does install, but runs incredibly slow. I remember there were some hacks to make Starcraft run faster (like switching from OpenGL driver to X11, and few others), but I don't seem to find information on how to actually do that.