Bionic Commando: Rearmed

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Sid Meier's Ace Patrol Pacific Skies

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Insurgency

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Yosumin!

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Flatout: Ultimate Carnage

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Shattered Planet

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Antergos + OpenBox
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Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm

Gallium Nine is a BEAST compared to vanilla and staging when using AMD!

As you already used it, you sure saw the differences with the other 2 versions in terms of fps boost, fluidity and stability.
I almost always found out that Gallium Nine not only gives you more fps (sometimes 2-3 times more) but it prevents the fps-drops that are extremely annoying and happen most of the time when using vanilla Wine.
I honestly don't care to play a game at 80 or 100 fps, if then it drops to 10-15 every time you move the mouse around, I will gladly switch to a solid 30 fps but with no further drops.
Gallium Nine gives you that (plus more fps), it raises the minimum fps a LOT, just check the F.E.A.R benchmark screenshots I did when I was using a 7850, and compare the minimum fps between the 3 versions.
I played a lot of other games with that Pc and I remember that with a game (inMomentum) I had like 20-30 fps with Wine (with drops), a slightly better performance with Staging (25-35) and a solid 60fps without drops with Gallium Nine!!
With your hardware you can try a freebie like Planetside 2 that runs great on Wine and amazingly with Gallium Nine!
I hope it gets added like it happened with Wine Staging..

To answer your second question,
yes I had some problems with Company on Heroes where the shadows where rendered too dark (wine 1.9.10) and with Rome: Total War, where the performances didn't change when switching from vanilla to G9 (no idea why but I didn't investigate too much).
Aside for these it was always a big improvement! :)

Gyromancer

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Serious Sam Double D

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Super Toy Cars

- low settings (Wine vs Wine Staging)


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Wine 1.9.15 Gallium Nine (AUR)
Phenom II x2 511
Gainward GTX 650 1gb
4gb ddr3
500GB HDD 7200 rpm