Re: Measuring game FPS in wine/windows?
Am 17.03.2010 um 17:38 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Austin English
> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I've been testing some games lately on Windows/Wine, and wanted to see
>> the difference in framerates. On windows, I've been using Fraps, which
>> works decently well, but not under wine (and it doesn't work for
>> Assassin's creed). I found D3DGears online, which supposedly works for
>> Assassin's creed on Windows (haven't checked), but doesn't work under
>> wine. Does anyone know of a standalone application that works under
>> wine?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Austin
>>
>
> The easiest thing you can do on Wine is run using WINEDEBUG=+fps :)
> (assuming the game uses double buffering which all modern games do)
Usually the games themselves offer a way to show the framerate, or offer a
sophisticated benchmarking mechanism. For example, in Source engine based
games(and the old Goldsource ones) you can show the framerate with "cl_showfps
2", and do proper benchmarks with timedemos("record ", then play a
little, "stop" to stop recording, "timedemo " to play back).
Obviously this is a game specific thing, but pretty much all multiplayer
capable games have a way to show the framerate, and all games based on a game
engine that is separately sold have a timedemo-like mechanism.
Re: Measuring game FPS in wine/windows?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Austin English wrote: > Howdy, > > I've been testing some games lately on Windows/Wine, and wanted to see > the difference in framerates. On windows, I've been using Fraps, which > works decently well, but not under wine (and it doesn't work for > Assassin's creed). I found D3DGears online, which supposedly works for > Assassin's creed on Windows (haven't checked), but doesn't work under > wine. Does anyone know of a standalone application that works under > wine? > > Thanks! > -Austin > The easiest thing you can do on Wine is run using WINEDEBUG=+fps :) (assuming the game uses double buffering which all modern games do) There are also other ways but I'm not sure if they work with Wine at this point. Basically tools like Fraps inject themselves into the Direct3D/OpenGL call which is responsible for showing a new frame. In case of Linux apps the best you can do is hook into glXSwapBuffers but Wine loads opengl at run-time, so that doesn't work. The +fps channel calculates the framerate around that call in the Wine code. If you want to more detailed measurements also try to use WineD3D on Windows. It could give you an indication how big the impact of the drivers is and perhaps Wine is. If you are using Nvidia the OpenGL drivers should be the same (perhaps there would be a difference of a few percent but you could ignore that), so in that case the performance we are losing is due to Wine/Linux. Roderick
Measuring game FPS in wine/windows?
Howdy, I've been testing some games lately on Windows/Wine, and wanted to see the difference in framerates. On windows, I've been using Fraps, which works decently well, but not under wine (and it doesn't work for Assassin's creed). I found D3DGears online, which supposedly works for Assassin's creed on Windows (haven't checked), but doesn't work under wine. Does anyone know of a standalone application that works under wine? Thanks! -Austin
