Well, the long intro - I totally abandoned Windows 8 x64 on my desktop 2 weeks ago and went only for openSUSE 12.2 Mantis x86_64 kernel 3.4.11, KDE 4.8.5, XOrg 11. My fav distro; very happy with it, solved almost everything with lots of work envolved software RAID 1 issues, sound issues, graphical issues, you name it. But it's fine now. Only thing that I can't get quite right is Wine and some Wingoz apps (dropped the photoshop also for GIMP - the infamous text problem got on my nerves, tried CS4,5,6 32/64bit portable or not - nothing). This thing (Wine) and the sound system (ah, my mic still doesn't work) in linux scares the hell out of me - I rather setup any server that you can think of than deal with these two...
The need - all my family plays World of Warcraft, me included, so got to have it.
The issue - it installs, it runs, but with very low FPS, so kind of no entertainment there only headaches.
The real problem - nothing seems to help and ... there are some weird things going on.
My hardware (in Windows for example I could play at once WoW and say Heroes IV with no problems - medium settings):
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
GPU: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cayman PRO [Radeon HD 6950]
Audio: Cayman/Antilles HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6900 Series]
Audio: HDA ATI SB(HDA Intel ALSA hardware specific Device)
RAM: 8GB DDR3 Kingston
Network: Loopback device Interface
Network: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
MB: Asus M4A785TD-M EVO
In Linux I get now max 20 FPS (low settings) in areas were I had minimum 60 FPS (ultra settings, outdoors, major cities), and around 30 FPS (low settings) in zones were I had at least 100 (on ultra settings, indoors, well... large ones for example). So quite a big difference. The game runs now in directX as with OpenGL I got only a few fps higher in an older Wine version, but with the cost of a lot of artifacts and really no quality settings (almost everything greyed out in the game). Now I don't have any other problems but the FPS - in a 25 person RAID it dropes under 15 so it becames unplayable in certain situations. Now I'm on Wine 1.5.17.
I tried:
-http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine
-http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=25610 (there is a guy there that says he got more than in Windows, tried his method to no avail)
-lot of other "advices" that I found googling and I can't remember now;
-stopped the desktop effects, run in a window screen, full screen, changed resolutions for testing (BTW I play at 1680x1050) etc etc
-almost all the combination in the games interface - it seems that the view distance is somehow responsible, as it is the only setting that influences the speed of the rendering. Antialiasing & Anisotropic Filtering in fact increase the frame rate or at least no effect at all if you can believe it! This is really fishy... But at least I play with them maxxed out.
-no problems with the video driver:
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glxgears -info
12412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2482.025 FPS
12932 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2586.347 FPS
13611 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2722.041 FPS
fglrxinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11931 Compatibility Profile Context
glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect,
GL_ARB_draw_indirect, GL_ARB_draw_instanced,
GL_EXT_copy_buffer, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,
Thank you!
