https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41967
Bug ID: 41967 Summary: Guild Wars 2 - periods if immense lag and stuttering Product: Wine Version: 1.9.23 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: hewanci@gmail.com Distribution: ---
In Guild Wars 2 I experience periods when the game starts to lag and stutter so badly that I can't move or take any action. FPS will drop to 1-2 and even sound will stutter. With normal wine, this also heavily affected the intro video after character creation to the point several of the voiced lines were unrecognizable.
While lowering graphics will increase FPS in normal periods, it has no effect on stuttering periods or the frequency of their occurring..
The issue might possibly be related to sound, as I noticed several times that stuttering seems to coincide with a sound effect being played for the first time, or a character starting to talk for the first time. Other times however it seems to not coincide with any sound events noticeable to me.
As suggested, switched to wine-staging and enabled CSMT. Results: - Intro video is not affected anymore - Stuttering periods appear less frequently, but they still do, and when they do they still make the game unplayable until they end.
As suggested, also added a registry entry specifying my video memory, but this had zero visible effect.
Using proprietary nVidia drivers. VGA: GeForce GTX 750 Ti CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1333 MHz System: Arch Linux 64 bit, fully updated
Don't know what logs I should attach or where to find them, please let me know what you need and I'll add them.