To all who use wine with Half Life

[Kai4Linux]

How do you guys get 99 FPS?
I have a 1 ghz, w/ a GF 2 MX w/ 640 MEgs of PC 133 ram on RH 7.2 Enigma with the latest CVS build of Transgaming's winex, and i only get 30 FPS!!! but with Jedi Knight 2, i get the same performance as in windows. In windows iused to get 99 FPS for half life. Whats up witht his? ANYONE PLZ HELP!!!!

BTW i did uninstall the MEsa Libarires

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

do you have the nvidia binary drivers installed? those would make a big difference.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Dude, 30 fps is nothing to shake a stick at. I understand you might see a little chop... 99fps is just turning it into a pissing match, your eye can't even see the frames being rendered that fast.



<< try running glxinfo and look for the OpenGL version string. If it doesn't say "1.3.1 NVIDIA 28.80", then you don't have it installed properly. >>

 

[Chooco]

jeez yer lucky, my buddy with WINE and Half-Life only gets like 1FPS for a screen the size of a pack of cigarettes. the sad thing is that his video card is an integrated ATI, ATI has no support for Linux (and pretty much none for Windows either). his puter is 1.2ghz Athlon T-bird but takes SDRAM, 128mb

 

[Kai4Linux]

Yes NVIDIA cards are installed correctly. Its not that i need 99 fps, its just there since i know some people who have crappier hbardware than me get 99 FPS so i am totally lost. any more ideas? PLEASE HELP. Ive tried 4 different versions of wine, and 8 CVS builds of Winex! HELP!

 

[mee987]

<< To all who use wine with Half Life >>


most of my friends use whine with half life

 

[EHobaX]

You might want to check if it's using OpenGL or just using software rendering. That would make a big difference.

 

[manly]

I haven't used it in a while, but I do recall this problem.

Although Wine is reported to work real well with HL/CS, the performance was underwhelming when I tried it.

By default, CS caps the frame rate to 72 FPS, although depending on your hardware, the actual frame rate can dip down lower in intense battles. That's how it works in Winblows. Under wine, the actual frame rate on my admittedly modest hardware (GeForce2 MX) was noticeably lower, but playable. I haven't tried WineX recently so I can't really comment on its current performance.

Finally, 30 FPS sustained is great, but usually the way to attain that is to achieve a much higher peak FPS (at least 60) which dips out no lower than 30.

 

[NorthenLove]

Try max_fps 100 or something like that to make sure HL is not limiting your card also like others have said make sure OpenGL is being used and that Nvidia's drivers are properly installed. Also make sure that UseDGA is set"UseDGA" = "N" as well in your config file for WineX. I have experince bad preformance with this set to Y in most games I play under WineX.

P.S. CS 1.4 and HL's update 1109 are out. Just make sure you install the HL update first and then CS 1.4.

 

[Kai4Linux]

Well i already tried the fps_max 100. tired the useDGA= N... stil no performance difference. I have a friend who used wine binaries on a P700 w/ 256 megs of ram that got 100 FPs just fine constant. I am totally lost. Anyoen else got some ideaS?

Oh and yes OpenGL w/ NVIDIA drivers are instaleld correctly

 

[fivepesos]

just for my mileage, i never got above 40 fps running transgaming's winex (several builds ago). i was running dual celeron 500 and a gf2mx 32mb.

i gave up on non-native gaming under linux. does your native games run well (quake3 or UT)?

 

[Kai4Linux]

Yea RTCW, Q3, and UT all run perfect. Jedi Knight 2 rules in wine. Only problem is Half life!! WHY!! I WANT DOD!!! sniff hehe

So im lost

 

[EHobaX]

Dunno dude. You may want to try reinstalling it, get the latest patches, etc. I know that's the windows thing to do, but you never know..

 

[Kai4Linux]

Tried latst patches. ITs very wierd ugh

 

[Cobar]

Things you might want to try:
Turn on double buffering in your wine config file.
Drop the resolution to 640x480 and see if you're being cpu or video card limited.
And of course, latest drivers always.

That said I'm running CS at 800x600 on an AXP 1700 with TNT2 Ultra (2880 drivers) with regular Wine 20020411 on Gentoo Linux extremely playably (don't know how to check fps but it's always smooth). I simply copied my Windows Half-Life directory over and started playing (didn't need any Windows dll's, etc.) The only problem is that mouse input isn't quite as good as native.

So you definitely should be able to get good framerates once you figure out your problem. You might want to look at some of the graphics tweaks as well. I've got some old 3Fingers config file that gives me a few extra frames.