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RE: TF2 Horrid Performance
by Brandon on Friday June 6th 2008, 4:19
I'm having the same issue. Used to run fine. I have a 8800 GTS (G92) and now I can't get better than 12-15fps on settings that used to get me 30-50fps. I turned all the settings down and lowered the resolution down to 640x480, and it went up to 12-20fps. I normally run on 1920x1080. Something has changed in either wine or TF2 that has absolutely killed performance. I don't think it was the nvidia drivers either. I updated wine, tried playing, and THEN upgraded specifically because performance was so bad. Both x86_64-169.12 and x86_64-173.14.05 have the same issues. I even tried dx9 just for kicks and performance there is as bad as ever, even worse than it is now under 8.1. Others suggested setting GLSL to "disabled". I did and it helped some but not much. I feel it was just treating the symptoms. Something has really killed performance in the latest release.
RE: TF2 Horrid Performance
by Ken Tang on Friday June 6th 2008, 9:56
Runs perfectly fine for me with the new WINE 1.0 RC3. Using CentOS 5.1 with NVIDIA 173.14.05 drivers on 1920x1200 resolution. So no, this is NOT a regression on WINE. Did you compile your own WINE, or did you grab a packaged version of WINE? Most of the problems I've seen are from people grabbing WINE through some package managers. Best to compile WINE yourself.
RE: TF2 Horrid Performance
by James on Wednesday June 11th 2008, 0:13
Sorry for the triple post. Apparently appdb doesn't like less than symbols.
I meant to say that I'm getting less than 15 frames per second most of the time. The game is unplayable.
I use an 8800gt with amd64 Gentoo. This card has never been stellar with wine, probably because of dodgy 8 series support by nvidia, but it has never been this bad.
Back in the day, my 7800gtx ran this game very smoothly with wine 0.9.55 or so.
RE: TF2 Horrid Performance
by John Hanely on Monday June 30th 2008, 10:16
For me (Athlon64 3800+, Gentoo, various versions of wine up to 1.1 so far) the Steam window itself eats CPU while visible. If ever I forget to close or minimize the Steam window, I end up with unplayable frame rates for all Steam games. I don't recall when exactly this started, but it came with a Steam client update. Hope this helps.
