Runes of Magic US / AU

Hi all,

Just have a question related to video settings in Ubuntu for anyone experienced in playing ROM with Ubuntu or any Linux derivative.

I have everything configured in Playonlinux as per the Wine guide so the game runs and updates but I'm experiencing a major fps drop. I use a Xfx Amd 5450 1GB "overclocked" to 10gbs bandwidth which got me 35-50fps using Windows 7. In Ubuntu 14.04 and 13.10 I get fps rate of 10-30 (30 usually only if I look at my feet) using the proprietary driver. I did some tweaks in my xorg.conf and hope maybe I missed something or added something that doesn't need to be there. Ubuntu 14.04 64bit works smoother than my Windows 7 32bit, and I can't upgrade my video for a few months so any help would be really awesome.




Do I need to add/subtract something from my xorg.conf file?

xorg.conf....
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri2"
Load "glamoregl"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Marble Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "FBTexPercent" "0"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "AccelDFS" "on"
Option "force_s3tc_enable" "true"
Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


(: Royolo (ps - Happy Birthday ROM!)

I did use POL. I installed directx9 package, xact,wininet, vcrun2008/2010,mono,dotnet20/30/35,extra d3d options including compiler, video card and switched all to native/builtin and removed urlmon (wouldn't connect to server with that in the library). GLSL to enabled, opengl as the renderer.

I could not download from Ubuntu. One step I could never do. Luckily I have ROM on a backup drive and was able to just drop the gameforge folder into POL's hidden folder (alt-h to unhide in home folder if need be). From there I added a shortcut to the client.exe and was able to load the launcher to patch and things seemed to work. I have less video issues with the newer prefixes. I prefer the doublebuffer 1.7 but 1.7 CSMT works great too. I still cannot run ROM with pulse audio installed, I had to purge Pulse audio to stop that nasty audio/memory issue that had me restart the pc a few times. Works great in Unity and worked great in Gnome 3, just my graphics card likes Unity a little better.

I've been at this for a good month. I can siege and less stutter than what my fps would look like in Windows. Something else of note or whatever. POL generates a new config file for ROM and sticks it in the home folder. Anyone interested would have to redo all macros/skill bars and most addon settings. Ever after that there is no guarantee that things will stick after setting them up. I have to redo my toggle map key every time I log in.

Edit: Found my fix, just needed to take that pesky FPS meter off my xbar! I have myself some hardware issues. All models, landscapes and buildings show up but the textures are off. Must be my graphics memory/shader clocks. OpenGL is amazing, just has a hard time translating textures with older equipment. Thar be my answer