05-29-2016, 11:04 AM
Hi everybody.
First of all, thank you to anyone who is involved in this project for your awesome work. It's just great to be able to be play old games like that so simply.
I have a question concerning performance issues in some games that happen to use the Snowblind engine like Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath.
With a friend, we started playing Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance a few weeks ago and the game is playable. In Hardware mode we get 50 FPS (it's the PAL version) most of the time. However sometimes it drops to 40 and even sometimes 30 FPS in some areas. I tried tweaking the configurations for quite some time and I think I was able to find the best possible config to for this game.
Here' the computer we're using :
Archlinux with Liquorix kernel
Nvidia GTX 670 with drivers 364.19
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4
So as you can see, it's not the most powerful computer ever but it's also not completely *****. Would it improve the situation if I bought a new GPU ? a new CPU ? Would it bring something to overclock my GPU ? Or is just a code optimization issue and the best I can do is to wait for you guys to continue your great work and it will get better ?
I don't know if I could get better performances on Windows using the DX10 plugin.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer me
First of all, thank you to anyone who is involved in this project for your awesome work. It's just great to be able to be play old games like that so simply.
I have a question concerning performance issues in some games that happen to use the Snowblind engine like Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath.
With a friend, we started playing Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance a few weeks ago and the game is playable. In Hardware mode we get 50 FPS (it's the PAL version) most of the time. However sometimes it drops to 40 and even sometimes 30 FPS in some areas. I tried tweaking the configurations for quite some time and I think I was able to find the best possible config to for this game.
Here' the computer we're using :
Archlinux with Liquorix kernel
Nvidia GTX 670 with drivers 364.19
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4
So as you can see, it's not the most powerful computer ever but it's also not completely *****. Would it improve the situation if I bought a new GPU ? a new CPU ? Would it bring something to overclock my GPU ? Or is just a code optimization issue and the best I can do is to wait for you guys to continue your great work and it will get better ?
I don't know if I could get better performances on Windows using the DX10 plugin.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer me