Linux Performance

[ColonelSheppard]

I'd like to get some more data on how FA performes on linux as opposed to Windows, I don't want to go full benchmark here, just like what's it at the beginning of the game like?

My Input (low-preset):

Type: DesktopPC
Distro: Debian Jessie
Graphics-Card: GTX460, winevram@1024
Proprietary Driver: None
Windowmanager: None
Map: Four Conners/top-left/UEF
Linux-FPS: 14-20 (building a factory and zooming out and in)
Windows-FPS: >90


Type: Same DesktopPC
Proprietary Driver: nvidia 346 (jessie backports)
Linux-FPS: >90

Type: Laptop
Distro: Debian Jessie
Graphics-Card: IntelHD 4400, winevram@512
Proprietary Driver: None
Windowmanager: None
Map: Four Conners/top-left/UEF
Linux-FPS: 11-18 (building a factory and zooming out and in)
Windows-FPS: 20-25

EDIT:
Wow, I never really used graphic-intense programs under linux, so I'm extremely suprised that this free driver performs THAT bad, it might however be an extreme case, since my GTX460 is one of those factory-overclocked shitgems, perhaps thats just something the nouveau-libs can't handle correctly.

[MayorDamage]

do you want windows data? which map did you test on?

[tatsu]

Wow sheppard!
glad to see you active again!

even with screen recording ongoing i get around 60fps :


there's a couple of annoyances i have to work around of (such as grab top of window minimising and blackscreening FA) (aeon shots ACU and aurora not being visible) but other than that I'm a happy camper and the performace is as good as on windows.

(once I even got a bug that made the performance BETTER! I was watching a replay and the game started no longer wanting to draw every single frame and instead skipping frames. while this made the FPS ugly as shit it made a replay that my beefy CPU usually slows down to at least +4 durring the late phase play at a full +10 sim speed! it was crazy!)

[ColonelSheppard]

do you want windows data? which map did you test on?

No I'm not really interessted in windows data, I can guess from the graca type, interessted in linux only, tested on four conners as stated

[tatsu]

you know there's a number of more complex solutions then simply wine.

there's wine-staging. and you can combine that with reverse-engineered nvidia drivers (although i don't think they're competitive with nvidia's latest ones under the sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa ppa) (just don't use nouveau for this....) and lastly you can create a hardware passthrough if you're willing to slap in an extra graphic card (prefeferably amd) and then you get native performance.

(highest graphic settings):

Type: DesktopPC
Distro: ubuntu 16.04 64bit
Graphics-Card: GTX760, winevram : uncapped so probably can reach 2000mb
Proprietary Driver: nvidia 376.26 and intel microcode firmware
Windowmanager: metacity/compiz
Map: Four Conners/top-left/UEF
Linux-FPS: 58/60 (building a factory and zooming out and in)
Windows-FPS: >90