Game performance with WINE

[dv/dt]

Hi, just a simple question for all those who emulate games on linux using wine and have also run the same game on a windows machine:

If you had two identical systems, but one with windows and one with linux and you decided to run a game on both systems, would the game's performance on the linux system suffer because of wine?

I thought this might be the case since wine also consumes more of the cpu's power and physical memory, but I have also heard that some games may actually be faster. Any clarification is appreciated.

[pay]

OpenGL games should run at pratically the same speed but directX games will suffer because of wine.

[Ferrat]

OpenGL games should run at pratically the same speed but directX games will suffer because of wine.

that's a half truth, the grafics should run the same more or less but there are other factors aswell like leaks ect. you will with 99% certainty lose some preformance in some plances with wine but the loss isn't very big.

Wine gets better with every release and will prolly continue on that same path, games with DX will probably always suffer in some way but the gap is getting smaller and installing and running games/apps in wine isn't that hard really and gets easier and the more ppl that use it the faster it grows.

Over all I would say count on (this is with wine, native games often IMO run better on linux, like Doom3 ect.)

OpenGL games = 90-99% of windows
DirectX = 85-95% (will often give you some errors if you get it to run or small problems, often with the mouse or keyboard atleast for me, FPS wise often the same as OpenGL)
games that use .NET = 0%, there is no way sofar getting games with .NET intergration to run afaik, had a big fight with my DDO about that ^^

but if you got a good system running games via wine you won't really feel the loss of 1-10FPS and stuff like that, on a slower system tho you might feel it some more

[Lord Illidan]

I never found game performance to be as good as Windows in Wine, unless I ran wine with -19 nice..

However, if your windows system is slow because of antivirus programs, etc, then u might actually experience an increase in speed.

[der_joachim]

I have very decent performance when playing Steam games. Enough to refrain from using windows to play them. There is a catch though. I do not know whether Steam & wine is actually faster than Steam & XP. ;)