[Tips] Running Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance with no flickering or screen problems

allenskd

allenskd

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I want to share this with you guys that are working hard on getting games working with WINE. Sometimes we have to look a little deeper to see what's wrong with a game and it's absolutely a very time consuming task. Luckily I've been able to run MGR almost flawless with WINE CSMT patches.

I'm not going to make a guide on it, rather I'll just leave the build here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37705/wine-1.7.24-CSMT.tar.xz

How to use this?

PlayOnLinux Instructions
- Extract archive
- Move folder to ~/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/
- You will see 1.7.24 CSMT in the dropdown list.

For both wrapper and without wrapper instructions:

THIS IS REQUIRED
- TURN ON CSMT (registry)
- DISABLE StrictDrawOrdering (registry)

I'll leave a post on how to use it with PlayOnLinux tomorrow (really late here)

Remember to turn off Anisotropic filtering and MSAA as they can hit the performance badly. I know very well that you don't have to do this with vanilla WINE, however this is a very small sacrifice to what you get, a playable game where you can enjoy the cutscenes and use the menu whenever you want.

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Awesome work Allen!
Please more screenshots too! Looks like a beautiful game...

Thanks for sharing, can't wait to see how to use it!
 
I'm playing it right now, haha. A really nice game!

I can't do the guide today. I'm on college midterms exams and well, you know the drill. :) But, I'll update the thread soon now that I'm a trusted member :D (and the WINE help guide)
 
Where's your priorities dude? :p
Games always come first, then family, work and school is dead last!
 
I believe we aren't in high school anymore where you could waste a colossal amount of time playing games or watching series... :P

Life is getting more demanding haha
 
Well said...
When I was in High School, I spent most of my time Skateboarding and playing my drum set. Eat dinner, watch some TV, then go to bed.
I play a LOT more video games now ;)
 
No way! I had no idea Metal Gear was action hack-n-slash
 
It isn't. Metal Gear Rising was a greenlight given to Platinum Games (Developer). Think of it as a total spinoff, unrelated to the main series.
 
Oh, no wonder... guess I don't know everything about every game
 
I don't either, haha. A lot of people I know in gaming communities knows more than me. I just like playing games, not knowing about who developed what :)
 
yeah, I can't keep track of all the developers or console games. but I've got a decent hold on PC games and gaming history. I love searching for new games and old games that I've never heard of.

So this Metal Gear is an indie developed game?
 
As commented before on wine vanilla flickering in my test stay mainly in hud, this is some examples with wine 1.7.33 + nvidia 346.22 on linux mint 17 xfce 64bits


at 30fps



at 60fps*



*for this must be use lastest internet browser aka chrome, maxthon or others

:)
 
I tried with vanilla 1.7.32 but I couldn't even get the cutscenes working. I have to compile 1.7.33+ to see if they work. However... with CSMT patches even the menus in-game work which is a big plus if you need to restart missions or change something.
 
I still don't fully grasp what CSMT does. I've tried it a on a few games (with the registry edit to enable) and still didn't notice any difference.
 
CSMT as far as I remember, mind you, it's been a long time and I've moved on from definitions.

CSMT or as we know is Command Stream is a patch that improves WINE's D3D performance, especially on games that are CPU-heavy. However, over time I've noticed that some of the patches Stefan have submitted to his github account have fixed texture problems, especially on games like Guild Wars 2 where I've noticed PLENTY of improvements regarding textures and performance.
 
Yeah, I've used the newer Wine with a few problematic games and it seems to run much better.
One day I'll go back and test Crysis 2, Alan Wake and some other games that just flat-out-failed
 
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