Very poor frameratesin many games, even Half-Life

[blackjackel]

I just installed steam and ran Half life (the original), and I'm getting an average framerate of about 25, maxing out around 35 and often going down to 5 or 8... and this is just in the beginning tram area....

I'm using an ATI 9800PRO and a 2.2ghz ATI processor (runs approx 3.3ghz intel speed) so I shouldn't be having this problem.

Warcraft 3: Frozen throne also seems to run faster in windows...

What could be the problem?

[hikaricore]

Video drivers installed and all that jive?
ATI drivers are known for making linux life hell, have you tested your card with native games to make sure it's not a wine related problem?

And are you running the wine games in opengl mode? (does your card support opengl?)

[blackjackel]

Yes, I made sure I was running the correct drivers by even running ENVY, a program that runs and installs the latest ATI drivers.

Yes, I ran Warcraft 3 in openGL and I still got bad framerates.

As for native games, the only game I've tried so far was Doom 3 demo, and I had sound problems with that.

[blackjackel]

this is very odd... I was running desktop resolution 1024x76something and it ran at around 20 fps, but when I set it to 1600x1200 it ran at 76fps (windows fps)...

It seems that ANY resolution other than the one I was using runs normal speed... how very odd.

[hikaricore]

that's the beauty of ATI drivers at work >.<

glad you got it figured out though :)