Issue 20.5: Transgaming GTL

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It's only a win if your application can take advantage of two GPUs in tandem.

And also depending on the speed of the processor.

Nvidia's flag-ship cards are helped a lot by Intel I7's topping 4.5ghz: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/...rifire_redux/6

Unfortunately, the only Nvidia card I have on hand right now (6800 Mobile) is still a no-go for running CoH.

What you're seeing at higher resolutions is more a function of the greater memory space. Pick up a pair of 580's with 3GB of memory and the performance picture is a bit different.

Note: In actual games. I honestly don't give a damn what "Benchmark X" tells me. Since I don't play benchmarks.

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Cuz benchmarks from games have no relevance to performance in games?

No. Because a card's performance in 3DMark or Heaven bear little relation to ACTUAL game performance in CoH, Crysis2, F.E.A.R. 3, etc. What's more, since those benchmarks are static, they can be gamed quite easily via driver and display controller tweaks. Playing the same graphics engine in a game, using the same "map", same settings, etc would yield different results. Simply because it isn't running the prepackaged demo.

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Via the old updater.

The NCSoft launcher is pretty much a no-go, and will continue to be so.

Getting NCSoft to change their launcher to something that isn't multiplatform hostile before I21... well... I just don't know how likely that will be.

Also, as another note, since I see some new faces dropping by this thread.

I focus on Transgaming's Game-Tree-Linux over W.I.N.E. for commercial reasons. Most commercial game publishers hold a deep distrust of W.I.N.E. and W.I.N.E. derived technologies. By the same token most commercial game publishers also hold a deep distrust of Free-Soft licenses, be those licenses GPL compatible or GPL Incompatible. For these licensing reasons many major publishers are happy to work with Transgaming.

Commercial publishers also want somebody they can call up over the phone when something goes wrong, something community driven projects such as W.I.N.E. simply don't offer. While a company such as Crossover could provide such service, Crossover doesn't have the reputation or history that Transgaming has.


While the desired situation I would like to see is a native-linux client of City of Heroes, I'm not entirely sure NCSoft could be convinced to spend the resources to make a client. I'd also have a hard-time convincing NCSoft, as a player, that they should invest the cost as the game runs well enough within either the GTL or W.I.N.E. frameworks.

That being said, given the new Strike Force arrangement, I think NCSoft / Paragon Studios would see value in dedicating a strike force to maintaining compatibility running under GTL.

Maybe not an ideal solution for Free-Software advocates, but probably an acceptable solution for the average gamer.