Submitted by Fossidarity in freeAsInFreedom
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surreal wrote
i've used it a lot in the past but mainly for games.
Fossidarity OP wrote
Proton is a version of wine, so you're using it too :)
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
I use it for Starcraft 2. It used to be a hassle to make SC2 work on Wine, but with newer versions it just works.
surreal wrote
oh good times in starcraft with wine on an old tin can i had when it came out. in 4v4 fights it dropped to 1fps.
ziq wrote
you still played it at 1fps? lol
surreal wrote
no way. that was almost a decade ago. now i play silly little games at 60fps.
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
Yeah, my six year old AMD processor does the same thing. It's especially bad with mods, the game turns into a slide show. But 2v2 or coop mode work fine, usually fps doesn't drop below 10 and that's good enough for me.
I'm thinking of a CPU upgrade when I get my tax refund.
surreal wrote
what's your GPU? games are hungry for GPU, the CPU doesn't make much of a difference.
edmund_the_destroyer wrote (edited )
Starcraft 2 is well-known for being CPU-focused, and mostly single-threaded too. I have an AMD RX-480 8GB, and I run the game at 1920x1080 with graphics options on low.
One of my kids has the same graphics card and a Pentium G4600 and the lowest his machine will drop is 50 fps in similar situations - and he sets the graphics options higher, too.
I'm an AMD fan. I know none of these corporations really give a damn about their employees, customers, ethics, and so forth. But I figure Intel has pulled more dirty tricks than they have, and the market is better with two strong competitors than one. So I'm probably going to get a Ryzen R7 2700X (even though a current Intel Core i5 is better for gaming), or maybe wait for the AMD next generation parts this summer.
(Edit: to be fair, some of the difference is Linux+Wine vs. Windows. My kid with the better performance runs Windows. But I'm not going to install Windows just to get better performance out of one game.)
surreal wrote
i've bought the amd ryzen 2400g which comes with integrated GPU. it's not for high end graphics but it's pretty cheap for what it does.
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
My wife's computer has its grandparent, an AMD A10-6700, and it's great for day to day stuff and casual gaming like Minecraft and similar. We have no plans to replace it.
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edmund_the_destroyer wrote
I treated myself to a Ryzen 5 2600X three weeks ago and stuck with my RX-480. My SC2 FPS shot way up, maps where it used to turn into a slide show now run in the 50s with graphics at higher settings.
...and naturally the kid I was playing SC2 with completely lost interest in the game. It's nice to have my other programs run faster, but if I had known my gaming partner would stop caring two rounds after I got the upgrade I would have postponed it.
ziq wrote
Does anyone actually use wine? I don't have wine installed, but I use proton via steam.