CSMT/GL_Threaded_Optimizations and terrible performance...

SirEdgar2nd · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 32

Okay, so what I /want/ or /wanted/ is for my game (Starcraft II) to run at a playable framerate. I read that a lot of people are getting huuuuuuuuge performance boosts with gl_threaded_optimizations and CSMT (not both at once...). Sadly, no matter what the performance I get seems to be subpar.

I am running nvidia proprietary drivers (337, on ~).

Wine 1.7.19
1.) I don't remember the exact framerate, but it was running somewhere between 20-30 fps in the beginning, then I ran this (thanks to the power of google!)

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

It depend where the performance is taken...

If you have a problem that let your game run at 10fps, sure having a patch that let it run at 30fps is a huge performance boost : but the patch is getting that boost by fixing the problem and not giving more performance in real.

Your game run at 30fps, are you sure that patch is to increase performance and not one to fix a performance problem?

SirEdgar2nd · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 32

The patch is to fix a performance problem.

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2013-January/344250.html

This one.

Anyways, I just woke up decided to tryu the game again and it ran at a good frame rate, I noticed CSMT was disabled, from last night. Here is what I got

1.) WITHOUT CSMT around 40ish FPS.
2.) WITH CSMT around 50-60 with occasional dips to 30.
3.) WITH LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 wine '/home/edgar/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft II/Support/SC2Switcher.exe' ...10 FPS
4.) Same command as ABOVE but =0 (and LD_preload unset) still 10 FPS...(attempting to make sure it was disabled)
5.) Running SC2 again after making sure all processes were did and running it without any extra commands to the left. Expected performance from previous results.

All of this was on low with compositing turned off

Increasing graphics to Medium KILLED performance and made it dip to 20 FPS (which I was running it at last night)

So, I think to myself, "maybe I should enable compositing if I want ot play on medium?" Which did raise my FPS a tiny bit.

TL'DR: So I think last night, the things impairing my in game performance was running no compositing on a cpu bottlenecked game, running the game on medium or higher and attempting to compare CSMT and that gl_threaded_optimizations trick I kept reading about.

Though, I Must say I am a bit jealous of this guy https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=20882&iTestingId=81976 :evil:

EDIT: Everything I Said about framerate is highly inaccurate when it comes to WITH and WITHOUT compositing. So take this last post with a grain of salt. :S