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ziq wrote

Does anyone actually use wine? I don't have wine installed, but I use proton via steam.

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surreal wrote

i've used it a lot in the past but mainly for games.

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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.

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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.

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ziq wrote

you still played it at 1fps? lol

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surreal wrote

no way. that was almost a decade ago. now i play silly little games at 60fps.

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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.

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surreal wrote

what's your GPU? games are hungry for GPU, the CPU doesn't make much of a difference.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

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