Olaf Leidinger napisal(a): > Hello! > > > I found the following tip on the app-db page of starcraft broodwars: > > **** > Users of Geforce-GeforceFX cards can improve the performance of StarCraft a lot (starting from Wine 0.9.19 or Wine CVS from August 1st or later) by adding some new registry options. Set the option HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Programs\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer to 'opengl' (if the Direct3D key doesn't exist add it). Further you need to set the option 'Direct3D\RenderTargetLockMode' to 'readtex'. > > The rendering performance should be VERY fast in 24bit mode now, it should reach DGA speeds. In the near future I will add similar fixes for other cards to improve performance but the boost will never be as big as for these old nvidia cards using GL_EXT_paletted_texture support. > > BTW note that the options I provided are now set for all applications, the options won't work fine for all apps yet so add some application specific options. (HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\starcraft.exe\Direct3D) > > Roderick > > **** > > Maybe it helps you... > > Ciao, > > Olaf > > > I have recently installed my Warcraft 2 BNE under wine (Ubuntu 6.10 - > > wine version 0.9.29). It runs almost perfect. There is intro, sounds > > but... game itself is slow. I mean my machine (Duron 1200; 384 MB; > > GeForce 5200 128 MB (drivers installed 9746); should run this game > > flawless (and it does under Window$) - but unfortunately, under wine > > game is pretty choppy - especially when I select a lot of units (good > > example is second mission in Human Campaign - when I select all my > > archesr and footmans and give "move" command I can see that they "jump" > > from place to place. Also map scrolling is rather slow. Is there any > > way to speed up that game? > > > > Thank you. > > > > --Signature=_Mon__22_Jan_2007_00_50_40_+0100_3wGCpURC6Kqwyvb9 > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > X-Google-AttachSize: 190 Thanks for this info - it help - but unfortunately game is still choppy :( it is really strange that old games have such weird problems... Any other ideas? jhansonxi@xxxxxxxxx napisal(a): > Wargus is a cross-platform Warcraft II compatible enhanced game. It's > not compatible with Blizzard's servers however. > http://wargus.sourceforge.net I heard about this before... I must find out more - is there a posibility to play Warcraft2 campaigns with this? (that is only thing that matters for my). _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
