Eoras Northwind
Gallente
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2011.04.28 18:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Sevarus James
Oh and for nvidia GTX users, the following SHOULD be added to the user.reg file:
Software\\Direct3d]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"MaxFragmentUniforms"="1024"
"MaxVaryings"="52"
"MaxVertexUniforms"="1024"
"Multisampling"="enabled"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="enabled"
"VideoMemorySize"="xxx" <<<<<<<replace the "x"s with the memory size of the video card.
These changes will improve fps and allow for shadows/hdr and the like to be used.
YMMV.
Two nVidia GTX 460 in SLI. If I set those options, Eve will crash to the desktop on start. So does a lot of other software. This is why I use separate ${WINEPREFIX}s for big games. Oddly, many of these are defaults and don't need to be set.
I get about 50 FPS with graphics maxed out. More if I turn off the shadows and hdr. Even then I see these numbers in the middle of incursion sites with two fleets racing for an NCO spawn. Counting the Sansha rats that's +30 ships with constant spawns, missiles flying off into the nether (gotta love Drakes,) turret animations and purty 'spolions. Not quite a 500 man lag-inducing fleet blob but I think that many frames per second will do for small fleet PvP, smooth-animating exploration, mining or missions.
Love my new nVidia cards and the latest (260.19.44) nVidia driver. I'm sure once openSuSE 11.4 fixes a certain bug with multiple desktops I can go back to losing 10-20 fps for having two clients and a shiny desktop, too.
Audio on a clean install is sometimes problematic, but selecting the Default System Device in the audio settings on the ESC menu solves that. For some reason, joining and leaving fleet audio or channel audio resets the Eve sound system when wine decides to stop sending sound to the speakers. Starting with wine 1.3.17 I've not needed to do anything to make the jukebox work on a clean installation. If I tire of the Eve muzak, the silence of space is just one stop button away.
...now I just need a stuffed penguin for my Command Quarters.
As always, follow the basics:
- backup your files
- only make one change at a time
- test, test, test
Fly (un)safe!
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