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Quoting: Avehicle7887Has anyone managed to activate CSMT using the Wine from this repo?: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/pool/main/

I downloaded the 2.6 packages, everything works fine but there is no sign of CSMT, I tried to activate it with the registry key shmerl mentioned and didn't have any effect.

How exactly do you test if it's activated or not? With The Witcher 3 the result is visible in the main menu. Without CSMT it's messed up.

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Quoting: SalvatosI loved Incredible Toon Machine as a kid, but I'm a little sad the cat and mouse aren't in this edition. Their animations and sounds made a good part of the game's fun. Normally I'd be wary of buying this out of nostalgia, but one buck for two copies is kind of a no-brainer considering I can make that money back selling a few Steam trading cards.

There is a cat and mouse in the game, they are featured in the tutorial too.

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In this wine version solve some bugs case ducktales remastered, before appears corrupted graphics specially characters

View video on youtube.com

But in other things steam stay affected if you dont use dwrite as native or disable, steam dont begins

Another side effect of before situation is steam overlay dont work in this version, using native dont show overlay

In CSMT related as other said dont stay completly implemented, this is confirmed for stefan dosinger in phoronix forums

QuoteNote that there are still some parts missing compared to my old code.

In particular, resource maps are still synchronous, so most games won't see a performance gain yet.

It's coming, please be patient :-) .

The existing code is likely to help with games that needed StrictDrawOrdering=enabled already.

However using CSMT in wined3d registry as dword with 1 value solve certain problems case flickering in senran kagura shinovi versus, bayonetta

View video on youtube.com

Maybe other titles can be affected

^_^

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I loved Incredible Toon Machine as a kid, but I'm a little sad the cat and mouse aren't in this edition. Their animations and sounds made a good part of the game's fun. Normally I'd be wary of buying this out of nostalgia, but one buck for two copies is kind of a no-brainer considering I can make that money back selling a few Steam trading cards.

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Reminds me a bit of Hero Seige, which is also out on Linux, although with slightly simpler graphics and more destructible environments.

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If you want something a bit more Mr. Shooty Mans after all that pacifism, maybe Bioshock Infinite? Lots of mooks to take out there.

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I loved the old Incredible Machine games and I love this one. I play without sound or music and usually listen to podcasts or audiobooks while playing, since it's like I use different parts of my brain for those. I have like 75% solved and I kind of forgot about it but now I think I'll focus again on it to try and complete 100%

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I suppose I'll have to swallow my principles for once and pay the excessive paypal tax to support Feral.

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Has anyone managed to activate CSMT using the Wine from this repo?: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/pool/main/

I downloaded the 2.6 packages, everything works fine but there is no sign of CSMT, I tried to activate it with the registry key shmerl mentioned and didn't have any effect.

I even made a clean wine prefix to make sure the registry is clean from the previous wine-staging settings.

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I am in weird moment of my life, where I want to support Linux gaming but I don't have a hardware that would allow me to play newest games on Linux.
I buy Linux games on sale even if I am 100% sure that I won't be able to play them in nearest future.

For almost 2 years I have a PS4 (bought to play Witcher 3) that is meant to play newest titles and 4,5 years old laptop that is meant to play Pillars of Eternity and some less resource-demanding Linux games.

Because I own PS4 I buy games for PS4 and Linux at the same time.
The weird thing is that DIRT, XCOM2, Tomb Raider (2013) and Mad Max I have on PS4 (On Linux as well except Mad Max) and all of this titles I bought at this or lower price on PS4 few months ago.
The only game that I bought for much more is Shadow of Mordor (which I have on Linux as well).

What I'm saying is that it is weird, that PC hardware is more expensive and PC games are getting to the price of console games.

I want Linux gaming to succeed, but I need to pray for Valve to do new push for Steam OS with some insane deals like - pay 500 euro for gaming console, get 300 euro to spend on Steam.

Previous deals for Steam machines were pathetic - 349 euro for cheapest version with old GPU and you received Payday 2. At the same moment you could buy PS4 for the same price with Uncharted: Nathan Drake's Collection, DriveClub and Little Big Planet 3. And a store with all the newest games available.

Don't get me wrong - I admit that we need to pay full price for games for Linux gaming to succeed.

But it is impossible to convince end user that is interested only in gaming to choose Steam machine if it has:
- Higher price
- worse hardware
- worse title bundled
- worse gaming library available to purchase
- worse performance of the games
- AND IT DOES NOT HAVE CHEAPER GAMES

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Quoting: ScorpioveYou can get Dirt Rally right now for 12 bucks as one of the early unlocks in the next Humble Monthly.

Would rather not, I think Feral deserver ALL the money really.

This!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ScorpioveYou can get Dirt Rally right now for 12 bucks as one of the early unlocks in the next Humble Monthly.

Would rather not, I think Feral deserver ALL the money really.

Thank you for supporting Feral. But as this post was informing people of a sale, I do think it was prudent to inform our Linux siblings that it's part of a greater sale where it's cheaper and will net you more games. There are quite a few of us with budgets after all. ;)

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I'm going to try this! Looks fun and no reason not to try a free game.

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I look forward to playing this game (need to complete some others first). Love the art style, very refreshing seeing something clean and cartoony instead of the overused "retro" pixel-art look.

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I'm also excited for this DLC. I saw a multi-track train station in the video, so I really, really hope they will include multi-track subway stations officially! That would mean more to me than cable cars.

I also hope they have updated to Unity 5.6 with Vulkan support :)

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QuoteAre you going to pick up any? Always nice to support the porter directly and they have ported quite a lot now for Linux gamers.

I was just about to buy a title. And I would like to support Feral as well ... but I have so many games that I have not yet played to the end that another new game would only be another corpse in my game collection. Unfortunately, I do not have as much time to play as I would like to have. But my family (we have triplets), my job (SAP programmer) and our house (has so some construction sites) leave for my hobby unfortunately not very much time left.

I have however in the last weeks and months Feral more or less supported. I am 100% on Linux since the beginning of the year and I bought Deus Ex: MD, Mad Max and Total War: Warhammer since this time.

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Absolutely an instant buy! I didn't have much time I could have spent on the game but I'll definitely buy the expansion and play it as soon as I can.

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I'll try to get DS4 working when I'm back home next week. I'm pretty sure Dirt Rally should be able to handle it.


While I wish I could easily buy all Feral games for full price, I went with the Humble Monthly this time. I don't even have time to finish all my Feral titles so I hope it's a better deal for buying them on sale then don't buy them at all. Still I bought some games from the Feral store in the past - some for full price.

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At this point I will buy anything these guys release. Love this game.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: mrdeathjrHoly shit works (need for speed hot pursuit show both cores at 99%, normaly only use 1 core to 99%)

Nice!
Do you think this will fix WOW only using 1 core too?

Maybe but at simple seek test various titles and performance remains equal

However in henri verbeet multi-threaded command stream implementation commit appears more information about performance issue

Quotehttps://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/e97ed10d09a94cae9bd449f297813a0f0722a378

wined3d: Introduce a multi-threaded command stream implementation.

The primary purpose of this patch is to serialise draws
from multiple threads, without the overhead of extra flushes
that "StrictDrawOrdering" imposes.

With additional work, offloading state processing and driver
overhead to a separate thread may also allow for improved
performance in some applications, but that's not a goal of this patch.

^_^

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I was very close to buying Dirt Rally a few days ago, so this Easter sale is a nice surprise! Though I feel a little bad for Feral not getting the full amount...

Unfortunately the game doesn't work with my PS4 controller, but it's fine with the PS3 controller (even if all button icons in-game are Xbox ones..). Also got a warning that my PC isn't up to snuff, but the game runs and looks nice.

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You can get Dirt Rally right now for 12 bucks as one of the early unlocks in the next Humble Monthly.

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20 quid for F1 2015 is still far too much. Sorry to say the poor sales figures are unsurprising.

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Quoting: pete910Going on the results I've seen it makes little difference on CPU.

If you look at the bench thread you have a 980ti with a AMD8320e beating the same card with a intel 5960, Rather a large difference don't you think.
Pretty sure a 5960 in vastly superior to a 8320e :P

There's a pretty big range in the 970's though.

Then again, I have a feeling that the benchmark is not entirely reliable. I started again today, got a 20% lower score. Repeated it a few times and got about the same. Then restarted the benchmark again and got the 20% higher value back.

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Quoting: ShmerlThis is quite useful: https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine

If you need only 64-bit Wine, it's very easy. But if you need WoW64 (with 32-bit support), it becomes more messy (I ended up using lxc containers for that). But lately I'm using custom Wine to test TW3 which is 64-bit. So I simply build 64-bit only.

Also, it's useful to know how to run custom Wine. You just need to set a few environment variables.

Thanks! I'll follow the LXC path since I need the 32-bit installation too (Eve Online).

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Quoting: ShmerlYep, that's it. It should be like this:

csmt_on.reg

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] 
"csmt"=dword:1

And I removed that staging dll redirect. It's pointless with this.

Holy shit works (need for speed hot pursuit show both cores at 99%, normaly only use 1 core to 99%)

In my case add CSMT in wined3d as dword as your said with 1 in value

Many thanks

Update: in hot pursuit use both cores at 99% but performance remains equal

^_^

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Quoting: TetractysI really would like to test 2.5 or 2.6 even compiling it.
I'm stuck at wine-staging 2.4. (from the PPA that ceased working due the repository changes).

I'm actually on Mint 18.1. Years ago I was used compiling wine myself but after the arrival of PPA, i stopped to do it. Can anyone suggest me a link where to find a comprehensive but technical recent "How to" regarding compiling wine (2.x) from source?
Thank you in advance for any suggestion!

This is quite useful: https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine

If you need only 64-bit Wine, it's very easy. But if you need WoW64 (with 32-bit support), it becomes more messy (I ended up using lxc containers for that). But lately I'm using custom Wine to test TW3 which is 64-bit. So I simply build 64-bit only.

Also, it's useful to know how to run custom Wine. You just need to set a few environment variables. See here.

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It is one I am waiting the release for.

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I really would like to test 2.5 or 2.6 even compiling it.
I'm stuck at wine-staging 2.4. (from the PPA that ceased working due the repository changes).

I'm actually on Mint 18.1. Years ago I was used compiling wine myself but after the arrival of PPA, i stopped to do it. Can anyone suggest me a link where to find a comprehensive but technical recent "How to" regarding compiling wine (2.x) from source?
Thank you in advance for any suggestion!

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