[Official] WINE info thread
" Thanks for replying. I have tried it (using Wine 1.5.28-PathOfExile using PlayOnLinux' installer for path of exile) and it actually started working also on the nVidia video card. However, I noticed no significant improvement. There were still some FPS drops, initially less frequent, but were getting more and more frequent and after playing through several areas they got so heavy that the game became unplayable, even with a summoner. Disabling GLSL support fixed problems with FPS drops at the beginning, but they begun to happen after a few minutes of gameplay and progressively became more and more annoying. This is getting worse faster if I am doing some kind of activity, like fighting monsters or running through areas, but also if I am standing still in an empty area (Eternal Laboratory was perfect for this). These are not just sudden FPS drops occurring frequently, also the whole framerate between these spikes decreases considerably (over time from 40 to 10). I am pretty sure that this laptop's video card is better than the previous one, that was also an ATI and it run Path of Exile on Linux better (could be played for hours). It clearly runs on the nVidia video card, because I can feel how it heats. If I try to run it on wine 1.7.19 and on the Intel video card, the performance is worse, but the thing that ruins it is the deterioration of performance over time (ten minutes of standing still in Eternal Laboratory decreased it from 20 average to 10 average). With GLSL support disabled, this one can't render any 3D stuff and crashes when I try to enter a game. However, the newer wine has better desktop integration. I tried it with 1.7.19-WGL_WINE_surface2, but the it didn't help. Last edited by Dugi#5232 on Jun 29, 2014, 12:17:28 PM
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" Unusual. How do other intensive 3D games run on your laptop? Could it be a hardware malfunction like a (stalling/stuck fan loose/inadequate heatsink) cooler on the video card chip? 3D games would make that symptom obvious whereas normal office tasks would not. |
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" I have the same issue after about an hour or so of playing. I found out that it is because of the chat log - the stutter happens anytime someone says something in chat. When I disable global (or trade, or guild, if you have that enabled), stuttering goes away completely. My theory is that it starts happening when the backlog for the chat window gets full. The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.
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Old version of the post
Skyrim has no graphical issues, even after some time of gameplay. Path of Exile was running fine on Windows 8 (however, Windows 8 didn't give me access to the SSD card where I wanted to put Path of Exile). I checked the video card temperature output in nVidia settings, it didn't seem to be becoming too warm when the game was getting slower. I tested the GPU's abilities with Ogre, and basically the only notable feature my GPU lacks is support for tesselation shading, which isn't something Path of Exile uses as far as I know.
More tests revealed that the issue isn't related to occupying too much RAM (it took just 1.9 gigabytes of of 8 gigabytes available) nor occupying too much GPU memory (it was occupying only like 25% of it) nor using all CPU available. The GPU usage was initially quite high, but then it got lower when the FPS drops and general FPS decrease started. Re-enabling GLSL support didn't help neither, it just became a new source of FPS drops, that was later dwarfed by the bigger problem. These FPS drops don't have any effect on mouse pointer (it can freeze for 2 seconds while I can move the mouse pointer freely), but it affects my interaction with the game (if the freeze is long enough, it can interrupt the channeling of flameblast). Sound isn't affected. To sum up: The error is that the average framerate decreases and FPS drops emerge over time, so that after fighting through two-three areas the game becomes totally unplayable This issue is related to the game being played on Linux (because it ran fine on Windows) Other games on Wine don't suffer from this issue It isn't related to GLSL The GPU isn't used too much so that it would cause these FPS drops It happens on both video cards, but both may be handled by the same driver It isn't dependent on Wine version CPU or RAM overusage is not the cause The speed they appear depends on area (EDIT) They seem to be reset when I exit to main menu (EDIT) The RAM usage of the PathOfExile.exe process never exceeds 1.9 GiB, and problems start always after that it reaches 1.9 GiB (EDIT) Maybe I could try another nVidia video card driver, is there a certain one which is known to run with Path of Exile and isn't too old? I think that I have found the cause. The game occupies more and more space in RAM, and when it reaches 1.9 gigabytes, the problems mentioned above appear and start growing. It never exceeds 1.9 gigabytes, it just gets worse. Is there a way to make Wine allow it to take more than 2 gigabytes of memory? I don't have a 32-bit OS. Last edited by Dugi#5232 on Jul 2, 2014, 2:57:52 PM
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" Memory use should be automatic. I have no issues (other than cosmetic), can run the game for hours with no issue, on many desktop systems I have set up for friends. All use Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. RAM ranges from 4 to 8 GB, which makes zero difference of course. I'm running proprietary driver 337.25. GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2048 MB. Perhaps a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, especially if you upgraded a few times or add/remove a lot of packages from stock. I'm assuming my guide on the wiki was followed accurately. |
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Strange what's wrong, I had a clean install of Ubuntu recently because I have a new laptop where no Ubuntu was previously installed. I have a similar system than you. I have followed your guide with the installation process, but the problem didn't seem to depend on it, the issue appeared also without PlayOnLinux on Wine 1.7. I will try to google it as a Wine problem. I remember that I used to have a similar problem with Skyrim that its earlier versions could not use more than 2 gigabytes of RAM and it had to be fixed with a special launcher.
EDIT: Googled it and found nothing relevant except my previous post in this thread. I'll have to ask on their forums. Last edited by Dugi#5232 on Jul 3, 2014, 12:43:48 PM
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Got caught by the title.. so no officiall QQ here..my bad..spelling caught me
jf and cheer others OS users You ARE my Bitch of burden!
"Stay Alive exile! Or you'll be the next zombie someone raises off the beach." - Altnaharra " Be Excellent To Each Other" -MikeP_GGG "If you die to yourself are you still the victor? " - BEX_GGG |
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"Is your wine container set up to emulate a 64-bit version of Windows? |
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" The game ran fine for me until after about 20-30min of playing. Constant fps drops, and barely playable. Turned off the chat, and now it runs fine. Thinking back the symptom was there. Every time someone texted in chat it would stutter, and while watching the fps graph you can see the fps drops. Weird thing is, is it would only be a problem after a while of playing. Last edited by a51ts2#2716 on Aug 22, 2014, 9:29:32 PM
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"That was the problem. I haven't found any option asking me if I want to emulate Windows 32-bit or Windows 64-bit, but I thought that it might be in the Windows version. I was emulating Windows XP that is 32-bit usually instead of Windows 7 or Windows 8 that is always 64-bit. Setting the emulation to Windows 8 fixed the problem. Thank you guys, now I can play Path of Exile on my usual operating system. |
