Puk made me aware of a mistake in my subject: The comparison is 2.0 vs 1.8, not the ancient 1.2 of course.
Am 2017-01-17 um 22:55 schrieb Stefan Dösinger:
Hi,
After more than a year of break I ran my Wine benchmarking scripts again on one of my two test machines: The iMac5.1 box with a Radeon X1600 GPU.
You can see the results and the comparison to the last regular run here: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1701170-RI-UPDATETES12,1512236-GA-WINE186...
The one game that jumps out is Trackmania Nations. It apparently regressed from approx. 32 fps to 24. I will run a bisect in the next days to pinpoint the patch that caused this. The game itself wasn't updated.
Other than TMNations there is nothing too surprising. 3DMark2000 and 2001 are slightly slower, Half Life 2 (which surprisingly didn't seem to be changed by Valve since December 2015) is slightly faster. Unigine Heaven, UT2004 and World in Conflict are unchanged.
As you can see in the results I updated the kernel, Mesa and Wine separately to see where changes come from (stable interfaces ftw!). The oldkernel_oldmesa_oldwine result differs from the 2015 one in the general update of the system (KDE Desktop, X server, DDX driver, etc).
Unfortunately this old machine is the less interesting one of my two test boxes. I still don't have a monitor for my Radeon HD 5700 Desktop. I ordered one a while ago and it should arrive soon. If I have time I'll try to run the tests next week.
Cheers, Stefan