http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27298
--- Comment #35 from TestSubject sirbubbles01@gmail.com --- (In reply to Jonathan Strander from comment #34)
I've had a significant computer upgrade:
Core i7 4770k @ 4ghz 8GB RAM (DDR3 1866) GTX 560 Ti OCed
I still get pretty awful frame rates in current Wine. Somewhere in the range of 16-18fps in the opening camp ground in many areas.
I've been playing this game for quite a while now under wine (probably since the 1.5 series) and there have been drastic framerate improvements in that time. I'd attribute part of my ability to play it to cpu performance settings (gnome applets that let me set all cores to performance) improvements in wine and the CSMT patches from Stefan Dosinger. Game performance is largely acceptable, but in a few places (Vergen when defending the walls, The Eternal Battle when fire arrows are all over the place) the framerate takes a drastic dive. But broadly speaking, the performance is getting a lot better.
I'm hoping that for me it becomes a non-issue once the linux version gets sorted out.