https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34348
--- Comment #27 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com --- (In reply to Adam Bolte from comment #26)
On a different note, since we're back to this bug ID, I would also like to point out that the "Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead." message really needs to be removed. According to: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-D3D9-Gallium-Nin... Opposed Stefan Dösinger explained that he does not believe Gallium3D D3D9 is an option for Wine, and as part of his reasoning for this he basically explained Mesa is too slow (see points 2 and 4), and implied the Nvidia driver is the best option for performance right now (in point 3).
Well, no. The proprietary NVIDIA driver generally has better performance than Mesa, but for many things Nouveau is perfectly adequate, and it would be a pretty sad world in which performance would be the only consideration for which software to use. I also think there's a significant difference between asking someone to consider an option and telling them not to do something.