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3D Driver Issues

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On a lot of systems 3D drivers are missing or not installed correctly. This prevents OpenGL/Direct3D games from functioning correctly. This page is meant to assist you with solving common 3D issues. It is not meant to provide a complete tutorial on how to install lets say AMD/Nvidia/DRI drivers. We might provide links to where to find this information for a specific Linux distribution though.

Investigating 3D performance issues

The primary cause of 3D performance issues in Wine is due to 3D driver issues. It is not always trivial to find the root of the problem, here some suggestions are given.

First we are going to check is whether 3D acceleration is working correctly. If possible try a native 3D program like Google Earth, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2004 and if those don't work well, likely because you don't have OpenGL drivers installed, try to fix those issues first, before you continue below.

In order to find out what's wrong, we are going to inspect the GLX/OpenGL information provided by the display driver. Normally you can obtain this information using the `glxinfo` tool. We don't use glxinfo here, because it can't be used to diagnose 3D issues on 64-bit systems since Wine relies on 32-bit OpenGL. Instead, we are going to use diangostic information built into Wine. For this you need a Windows 3D program (it doesn't matter what) and run it like:

WINEDEBUG=+wgl wine your_3d_app.exe &> wine.log


The contents of `wine.log` for a working installation, may look like this and it is similar to glxinfo:

trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL version             : 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.12.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL renderer            : GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GLX version            : 1.4.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Server GLX version     : 1.4.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Server GLX vendor:     : NVIDIA Corporation.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Client GLX version     : 1.4.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Client GLX vendor:     : NVIDIA Corporation.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering enabled: True
...

A broken/incomplete install with indirect rendering (this can still mean that you have some 3D acceleration) could look like this:

...
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL version             : 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL renderer            : Mesa GLX Indirect
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering enabled: False

A broken/incomplete install with pure software rendering could look like this:

...
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL version             : 2.1 Mesa 7.8-devel
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL renderer            : Software Rasterizer
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering enabled: True

This case occurs when you use a DRI driver, but libGL is not able to load your dri module (e.g. /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so). In such a case Mesa falls back to software rendering. (It might look weird that direct rendering is enabled but this is actually correct. The definition of direct rendering is that rendering is done client side without interference of X/GLX. OpenGL drivers prefer to bypass X in order to achieve maximum performance but pure software rendering also bypasses X.)

In case of a problem like the line 'Direct rendering enabled' showing False. Consult the support channels provided by your OS and graphics card manufacture for help getting hardware accelerated GL installed and working correctly.

For a Radeon card you might get info here: Use 32-bit GL applications on 64-bit systems.


This page was last edited on 18 January 2016, at 03:57.