Diablo 3 on Linux.. Second Edition
Hi all
Just wanted to share some good experience, and I hope that this info will help some of you..
I just reinstalled my primary gaming machine from Windows 7 to Kubuntu.. Have had two seperate machines (1 windows and 1 linux) for years, but since the release of the Steam beta, I’m now convinced that I can use Linux on the primary one…
Primary computer:
Dell Precision 490
2x Quad 2.66 GHz Xeon processors
16 GB Ram
nVidia GTX 560 TI
I installed Diablo 3 by creating a wine bottle with:
WINEPREFIX=<bottle path> WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
then installed:
WINEPREFIX=<bottle path> WINEARCH=win32 winetricks vcrun2008
and Diablo:
WINEPREFIX=<bottle path> WINEARCH=win32 wine <diablo installer>
After waiting for the installer to download and install, the game started fine, but after entering a game, I noticed that the performance was horrible.. about 10 fps…
I fooled around with all kinds of wine and nvidia tweak settings, as well as taskset for locking the game to one physical CPU… this only gave me a few extra frames…
I then noticed that when disabling window effects in KDE (Shift+Alt+F12), I got a HUGE performance boost…
Now I’m running at about 40-70 fps, with all effects maxed…
On windows I have had alot of problems with microstuttering on Diablo, but I seems to have completely vanished on Kubuntu…
Happy gaming everyone…
