Wine Testing: Patched VS Normal 1.7.1 On Ubuntu Linux

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Published on September 18, 2013 5:09:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BBQfkPDps

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There was a recent D3D patch to Wine that claimed to increase performance in Wine dramatically. In this video, I test it out to see if I'm able to enjoy said performance increase.

WARNING: This is a very small sample. I only tried original games, and all of this was on an AMD CPU computer. It may very likely be different for Intel CPU users. I do not claim that this is what everyone will experience. This is just what I experienced. The patch is said to provide more work for the CPU via threads, so it's possible this is more Intel beneficial than AMD beneficial.

I attempted to try as many games with the Patch and Normal Wine 1.7.1. Some of the games I tried:
1. Aliens Colonial Marines
2. Borderlands 2
3. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3
4. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
5. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 1
6. Crysis 1
7. Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
8. Just Cause 1
9. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
10. Elder Scrolls Oblivion
11. Tomb Raider 2013

For both the patched Wine and normal Wine, I have DirectX 9 installed as without it the games aren't able to run (except for Walking Dead).

I did modify Wine heavily within the registry and additional components for both Borderlands 2 and MW3, as I really wanted to get them working and see if there was any performance gains. Sadly, they are both unplayable for me on Wine 1.7.1 (patched or not). Every other test only had DirectX9 installed in Wine, no other changes.

For the patched Wine, as required I had enabled CSMT in Regedit and disabled StrictDrawOrdering.

Forgive the bad video editing, as I am trying something new this time around. I am also using a new tool, so I have knowledge with more video editors than just Kdenlive and Openshot.

The testing took me 2 days to do, but the rendering and editing took up 3 days! So before you get angry for any reason, please know I spent a lot of time trying to get this right.

The final results are in a table I included in the video at the end, 27:07

Download the patches from here:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-September/101106.html

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This video was recorded using:
SimpleScreenRecorder 0.0.7 (game video & game sound)
Audacity + Blue Yeti Microphone (voice over)

This video was edited using:
VideoStudio X6 Ultimate
GIMP 2.8.4
Audacity

My computer rig specs:
CPU - AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4GHz
GPU - Asus Nvidia GTX 680 2GB (Nvidia 313)
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz
OS - Ubuntu 13.04 32Bit/Windows 8 64Bit (Dual Boot)

PPA for Vokoscreen:
ppa:vokoscreen-dev/vokoscreen-daily

Download Ubuntu 13.04 for free:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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http://www.gimp.org/

My alias in ubuntuforums.org:
myromance123

About me:
I'm just a Malaysian student studying in Multimedia University Cyberjaya. I am currently in my 4th year at the time of this video. I am taking the Software Engineering and Games Development course (which has now been relabelled as Games Development under FCI).

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