[Official] WINE info thread

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Psycho7765 wrote:

Hi,

does anyone else experience huge fps drops every time something is loaded the first time (a spell, an effect etc.)? While this is just a bit annoying in solo play, it makes 6 player games pretty much unplayable for me.

Between those drops the game runs perfectly fine with 40-70 fps. I'm, using playonlinux / wine1.4.

Btw.: using taskset to assign the client.exe to a single core reduces fps jitter a bit for me and makes the game run smoother.

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Espionage724 wrote:

So, I'm on Kubuntu currently with all updates and propertary graphics drivers (AMD). Judging by the appDB, I should run PoE with the latest stable version of Wine (1.4) instead of the latest developer one (1.5.21 I think)?

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blackspiral wrote:

Hey guys,

Is Act 3 really laggy for you too ?
Everytime I engage a rare mob with any kind of fx its starts laggin really bad, sometimes it will freeze the game for a couple of seconds.

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The skill stutter problem when you first use skills is because we're not yet able to preload some of the effects they use (The glow of the skeletons, for example). If it is very slow on your PC, I'd suggest just casting the skills when you first start the game - They should be loaded into memory for the rest of your session.

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I’m getting frequent framerate spikes while playing.

We’re still working on preloading some effects, so you should cast skills like Summon Skeletons that have load-intensive effects before you enter combat. All monster effects will be preloaded in future.
If you have regular framerate spikes, every 2 seconds, then you’ll need to updated your graphics card drivers and adjust your driver settings.

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julus wrote:

Regarding Wine 1.5.9+ crashes

I run regression test, and identified that after the 2123f049d30cad9d79867999eb49f46211e0e23c commit (usp10: Change OpenType_GSUB_GetFontLangaugeTags to OpenType_GetFontLanguageTags and load languages from GPOS table as well.) Game crashes

The commit is not revertible against current wine, but the crashes possibly can be workarounded by "winetricks usp10" (I was able to run 1.5.22 stable for more than hour with that on OSX). Can somebody please confirm that winetricks usp10 fixes crashes on wine 1.5.9+ ?

Currently I am running final test (wine 1.5.9 with that commit reverted), If the game will be stable for 2 hours, I am opening bug report at winehq.

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Psycho7765 wrote:

Thank you for replies. Unfortunately the fps drop issue also described by ferggren and SilverHorus persists.

Things i've tried so far:

- different wine versions (1.4, 1.5.6, 32 and 64 bit)
- different settings for "OffscreenRenderingMode"
- putting the game into a ramdisk
- various graphics settings in game and driver
- renice, ionice, taskset stuff