http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674
--- Comment #221 from Tom fastumzug@fastmail.fm 2012-09-15 05:10:52 CDT ---
- It is true that WoW works just fine for most of the people in most
situations, BUT the most demanding aspects of this game are 25 man end game raids. And in that situation the difference between regular Wine and Wine with the rgl patch is very significant, and for many people that is a difference between being able to contribute to the raid or not.
That's quite similar to the situation in Guild Wars 2. I have a NV540m not the best at the market but it runs with 40 FPS in Win7 and only 9 FPS in Wine. I can also switch graphic settings without any effect on its performance.
This rgl patch doubles my framerate in both of these situations (when it does not crash).
I would like to test it. I may do something wrong because GW2 seams not to find DX9 when I activate the patch. ae already said his patch isn't for GW2. I hope, we can get it running for GW2, too.
While I fully agree with Wine developers that rgl in its current state is a horrible and ugly hack that has no place in Wine, at the same time we do need something with the similar effect to be able to full use current generation graphics cards in modern games.
It is a hack which is worth to build on IMHO. If it just helps in the first place then let it be a bit 'ugly'. But we can use it as a basis to build up on. If it just don't work, there will be less testers left, because the play with Windows.
ae, could it be possible to write a 'generator' that would pick up all possible GL functions and generate the code to 'remote' all of them, instead of just a subset?
Write him a mail, too. And if he needs Guild Wars 2 for testing his patch, too. I'm pretty sure we'll get the people together to buy him one :)