MaTi, you can try some tweaks. The for-windows-games indeed will not be so fast (for now maybe, ;D), but you can, for example, disable compiz effects while play, use a ligthweight window manager so certain resources consumed by gnome will be free for use in games. usually i setup a fluxbox in order to play, there's no icons or lots of things available inside a desktop, but his lack of resources can help when you go play. also fluxbox menu can easliny edited and prepared to launch any game! 2008/12/21 MaTi <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> > I've been using Linux Ubuntu for a few days, but I already love it :) > However, when I'm running windows games under wine, I get less than 10fps, > while under windows they work really fast. I have installed latest Nvidia > drivers from ubuntu repositories and Direct X 9c under wine (yes, dxdiag > works, and it passes all the tests). I have also seen on youtube, that many > people don't have any problems with running those games under ubuntu. Is > there any solution for this problem? > > Some info that might be needed: > > Hardware: > CPU - Core2Duo e4300 @ 2.34GhZ > Graphic Card - Palit Geforce 7300GS > Ram - 2GB @ 800MhZ > > Wine version: 1.1.10 > Ubuntu version: 8.10 with all the updates > > Games I tried to run: > Steam - works, but when I switch to games list, even it's windows moves > very slowly > Half-LIfe 2 (steam) - only 5-7 fps > GTA San Andreas - when many NPC's appear on screen it's getting laggy. When > I turn my back to NPC's it's fine again. > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081226/4878d1b6/attachment.htm
