Wine VS Windows Batman Arkham City Benchmark on an AMD R9 390
96This video's focus for the benchmark is on the performance of Wine coupled with AMD's driver against running Batman Arkham City natively on Windows.
Timeline:
1. Intro 0:00
2. Benchmark Results 0:54
3. Side-by-side comparison (Max settings) 1:28
3. Summary 2:45
Credits to Arhybes for the animated batman, video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKo17M21Xp8
GOL's survey for August 2015:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gol-survey-results-august.5937
Sorry for the failed annotation. I didn't know Youtube does not allow external website URLs to be linked in the video.
The following AMD drivers were used:
Windows 10 Pro with Catalyst 15.7.1
Ubuntu 15.04 with Catalyst 15.9
Since Wine does not support the DirectX11 feature set, we are restrained to the DirectX9 feature set. To keep things fair, settings remained the same on both platforms.
Gallium Nine wine was not usable since it kept crashing my entire computer after running it for under 5 minutes. Even when I managed to reach the benchmark and run it for about 1 minute, the performance was way too close to CSMT.
Wine-Staging 1.7.51 was used, and was a clean prefix. CSMT was enabled. Nothing was installed via winetricks or POL. This should be reproducible with little effort.
Steams overlay was used as the OSD (frame counters). I recorded my screen using my Canon SX50HS Powershot camera, so that performance would not be affected.
All hardware on this computer is the same. The game is being run from a 1TB Western Digital Green Caviar HDD on both systems, so no hardware discrepancy should exist.
On Ubuntu, the CPU governor is set to Performance. For Windows, Power Settings is set to High Performance.
Minimum settings here means everything that can be turned OFF or set to LOW was set to OFF or LOW.
Maximum settings means cranking everything ON and to the Highest setting possible, with the exception of V-Sync which was kept off.
My verdict: Wine gaming is not where it should be after all these years. It would seem that Codeweavers haven't been focused on performance. If this is how things are now, there may not be a very bright future ahead if D3D10 or D3D11 support ever get implemented in Wine.
I may have made mistakes, and if I have done so, please forgive me and correct me in the comments. I've tried to do this benchmark and review to the best of my knowledge and capabilities.
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My main computer rig specs:
CPU - Intel i7-4770 3.4Ghz
GPU - AMD R9 390 8GB
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz
OS - Ubuntu 15.04 64Bit/Windows 10 Pro 64Bit (Dual Boot)
Video recorded using:
Canon SX50 HS
SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.3
Audacity 2.0.6
Video edited using the following software:
KDENLIVE 0.9.10
GIMP 2.8.14
LibreOffice Calc
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