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Diablo III (2012)

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Playing windows games on Linux using Wine:
Diablo 3
Read comments for Performance tweaks bellows:

The game is running smoothly and out-of-the-box using wine, check wineappdb for up to date informations:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25953

** Performance tweaking **
- Cpu governor can have a HUGE impact on performances. On 3 computers, I found that using the cpu 'ondemand' governor can lead to 50% loss in framerate. While 'performance' and 'conservative' seems drastically faster.

- Cpu affinity per core. The default way to handle multi-cpu for this game is to use all core available. I found that on most system that can be OK, but for some others, you'll get a strange framerate fluctuation. The best way to get rid of this, is to launch up the game, and test (one by one) every number of core you got available:
"taskset -cap 0 `pidof Diablo\ III.exe`" (for 1 core)
"taskset -cap 0-1 `pidof Diablo\ III.exe`" (for 2 cores)
"taskset -cap 0-2 `pidof Diablo\ III.exe`" (for 3 cores)
...
On my 8core box, the best cpu affinity seems to be 0-5 : a stable 50-54 fps.
While 0-6 or 0-7 will lead to a fluctuation of 30 to 44 fps..

OS : Archlinux rolling release ( http://www.archlinux.org )
Wine : 1.5.23 ( http://www.winehq.org/ )
Capture :GLC 0.5.8-4 ( https://github.com/nullkey/glc/wiki )

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