ATI Catalyst 9.1 + WINE = Awesome

[Vince4Amy]

Just installed the new ATI drivers and WINE and I have to say it is probably the most awesome driver update ever!

All my Windows games that work with WINE now have great FPS, on par or faster than Windows, this is absolutely awesome. Anyone else tried these yet?

[Zero Prime]

Downloading now. Thanks for the info.

[Baby Boy]

Didn't even know about this, I'll definitely give it a try. I have the default drivers installed (8.4 I think), how much of an improvement would you say these are?

[handy]

I just tried to get 9.2 beta on Arch but they aren't good for 64bit yet.

Great to hear that AMD have made good progress though, that's for sure.

[mihai.ile]

interesting...

I am used to see topics like "ati dirvers suck, nvidia drivers crashing, x errors with intel", and now I see ati awsome, nvidia rocks.... great news...

[Zero Prime]

Even better than WINE, Composite rendering and video play back works with no flickering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I can have Compiz or Gnome compositing on and watch video!! I'm happy now.

[blazemore]

Any info on the gaming performance of Wine with the new Nvidia 180 driver?

[Baby Boy]

How do I install this driver? I can't run the ".run" file. Help.

[Neural oD]

also interested in peoples take on the nvidia driver under wine

[zika]

Even better than WINE, Composite rendering and video play back works with no flickering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I can have Compiz or Gnome compositing on and watch video!! I'm happy now.

HD3650: now I can set video to xv and get no flicker but in not-full-screen picture is shifted down 1/2 of the player window ... ;( so, still with X11 on video.