Source Engine games - Low FPS (Wine 1.3.15)

ebol4 · Post by **ebol4** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:15 pm

The AppDB lists Team Fortress 2 as Platinum. It says it should run "flawlessly out-of-the-box."

In Windows, I can max out all of the settings and get a steady 100+ FPS.

In Wine, I have to set everything to Low, and even then, I still only get 20-30 FPS, occasionally dropping down into the 0-10 range when multiple players are on the screen.

That doesn't sound flawless. Aside from the low FPS, I get many different graphical glitches, like black textures, lights shining through walls, and more.

Have I done something wrong? I'm running Wine 1.3.15 and Ubuntu 10.10 x64. I installed Steam, and all of my drivers are up-to-date.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:06 pm

On 3/16/11 3:15 PM, ebol4 wrote:

The AppDB lists Team Fortress 2 as Platinum. It says it should run "flawlessly out-of-the-box."

Depends on your idea of 'flawless'. However, you are reporting problems
that definitely should not be in a Platinum rated game, so I have a few
questions:

1. What is your video card and driver version?
2. You stated you are using Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit version and Wine
1.3.15, what what bitness of Wine are you using (you might be using the
64 bit version and it might be better to use the 32 bit version for
running Steam games, but the bitness should not make a difference.)

Can you please provide answers to these questions?

Thank you.

James McKenzie

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:10 am

Also, see http://wiki.winehq.org/Performance
With Nvidia cards, Wine usually achieves something like 75% the
framerate of Windows, but results vary on different games and cards.

You might try "winetricks glsl-disable" if you have an nvidia card.

ebol4 · Post by **ebol4** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:22 am

I have an Nvidia GTS 250 1 GB, running on Nvidia's 260.19.44 x64 drivers.

I don't know what version of Wine I'm using, other than that it is 1.3.15. I got it from apt-get.

Thanks, I'll try the "glsl-disable" thing.

ebol4 · Post by **ebol4** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:42 pm

Tried the GLSL-disable thing, and it didn't make any noticeable difference.

I increased all the video settings to as high as they would go, and my FPS didn't go down or go up.

The thing that did make a difference was disabling sound. The game was noticeably more responsive and my FPS was a bit higher after that.

ebol4 · Post by **ebol4** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:45 pm

Sorry, forgot to mention that I have the ALSA drivers selected in Wine. Hardware acceleration is set to full, default bit-rate is 44100, default bits is 16.

ebol4 · Post by **ebol4** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:13 pm

Annnnd, I think I've fixed it!

My FPS is perfectly playable, and the game isn't lagging.

My fix: Put the game into windowed mode. I don't know why, but my FPS went up by 30-40.