I have no idea when exactly this happened, but my Warcraft III Frozen Throne has very poor performance for my setup
It worked superfine before that, mentioning I have an i7-4790k and a GTX 1080, which is overkill for this game. Now when going ingame, I don’t get nearly the FPS I should get. Even the menus are choppy and lack FPS. What the fuck went wrong for me?
I checked the Lutris install scripts and looked into my installation - it should be exactly what is stated in the scripts: system WINE (staging-3.9) and one registry key set
What can I do to investigate this problem further?
I mean, it’s not that it gets laggy with many units, it’s choppy all the time, I’d say around 15-20 FPS. It doesn’t matter if therer are thousands of units for none at all, it’s the same shitty performance all the time
I don’t have it. So I can’t check. But from quickly reading the installer, it seems it switches to OpenGL. Perhaps you can try to set it back to DX9 (is that a thing in that game?), and then use the pba-3.9-firerat runner.
that’s a failed attempt to translate the german phrase “Kommando zurueck!”, which would translate literally to “disregard the previous command” in a military sense, and as a saying just translates to “nevermind” essentially.
UPDATE: Was choppy and laggy again. I re-added the registry key for OpenGL and now it works perfectly again. I don’t know if this is the solution (WITH regkey and pba-3.9-firebat) or if it’s a “get lucky on the third game start” thing
Can’t test it too much now, investigate further on time
I have no idea what going on, I’m just jumping in to mention that I used to play Warcraft III on my FTP server in Wine around 2004 (and it ran very well).
I made sure that the game still runs ok with Staging 3.9 and it does.
A wild guess, try right clicking the game entry in Lutris, then Wine Configuration -> Staging and enable VAAPI instead of CSMT for GPU decoding and/or set your wine to Windows XP
EDIT: I have installed Warcraft III Frozen Throne and it seems to run well on my machine with the setting I have told you to do.