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Hi there,,

I'm trying to make Dawn of War 2 go a a reasonable speed when I launch it from Steam. The game launches fine, but goes at about 5 frames per secopnd when I try to play it. I should have good enough hardware so just trying to work out why

Nvidia GT218 [GeForce 210] with Nvidia driver 331
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz × 4 
Memory 3.8 GiB

Ubuntu 14.10
Wine 1.7.39
PlayOnLinux 4.2.3

It's certainly possible as wineHQ gave it gold 

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15741

and there are various videos online of people playing it

Thanks in advance if you can help

 

 

 

 

 

Do you have the 32-bit graphics libs for your Nvidia card installed? You also might want to look at using Wine 1.7.39-staging (NOT the system Wine. The one you install from Tools -> Manage Wine Versions), and enable CSMT via Wine Configuration in the Wine Tab in the Configuration Window. Check the wiki if this is a bit confusing. 

Also, it is recommended to update POL to the newest version from our Downloads section. It will not fix this issue, but there are a lot of fixes since that particular release that you have.

I looked at the appdb entry; are you using the version of Wine it says works? It says Wine 1.7.30 is the working one, but you say you have a different version of Wine, which I assume you are talking about the System Wine. The System Wine is completely separate from POL's WineBuilds. 

Now, that slow of a speed is REALLY slow. You should totally be getting more than that. Just make sure that you also have the 32-bit Nvidia GL libs installed as well, and if that doesn't fix, for sure try the -staging POL WineBuild that I mentioned above, as that has been shown to give MASSIVE gains in performance for certain games and certain setups (though I am fairly certain that you are not using the correct Wine version listed at appdb, or you have a driver issue.). It is worth a shot. 

Edited by RoninDusette

Hi Ronin,

Thanks for your help

I set the wine version to 1.7.30, enabled CSMT, updated POL and I think I now have the right drivers. With setting everything low and reducing the resolution it's become playable! a mighty 20 frames per second average

Is there a way of testing to see if the drivers are properly installed? The aditional Drivers tab of Software & Updates has the following ticked "using NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.113 from nvidia-331 (proprietary, tested)" but i'm pretty certain that what it said previously.

 

 

Try to update the drivers to more current ones. Like nvidia-346 or nvidia-346-updates or something. I think you will likely see better performance with more current drivers.