Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART2

Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART1

• Nvidia driver

I added this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
And install Nvidia-343 driver
I find out that prismusrun is alternative to optirun

• Avoiding Video tearing while watching 60 fps video

VLC useless

Mplayer works only with Intel vaapi

$ export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl &&  mplayer -cache 8192 file.mkv 

XBMC kodi can use both Nvidia or Intel vaapi (default)
$ prismusrun kodi
$ kodi

Totem works with Nvidia
$ prismusrun totem

• Gaming

I Instaled Wine1.7 and using prismus StartCraft II works!
$ prismusrun wine /path/to/StarCraft-II-Setup-enGB.exe

• Resource

http://askubuntu.com/questions/305305/running-xbmc-on-bumblebee-nvidia
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121749

• Note

Hard drive on this laptop is large 1TB, but not very fast. Thats why mplayer better works with bigger cache option. I came to conclusion that most of the lag is hard drive retailed. So I made a few more settings. Set swappiness to 1 (how to) ant added "noatime" to FSTAB.

Linux Wine: Setting Windows/DOS environment variables & running bat files

Example how to add environment variable "PATH"

Example of running *.bat:

Content of bash for starting *.bat file:
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#!/bin/bash
wine start ./dir.bat
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Content of "dir.bat":
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DIR
PAUSE
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty on Ubuntu **UPDATED**

Installation (How to):
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty on Ubuntu

I am very Happy to Post This!!!

Performance Issue resolved on Ubuntu!

I did update, and now it is:

Ubuntu 12.10
Wine version: 1.5.20

Linux P5QCUbuntu64 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Nvidia:

In my frost post I dod not write the version of Nvidia driver, I believe it also updated so as Nvidia Settings Tool , cause in the previous version I do not remember option "Prefer Maximum Performance" (Pict. below). I definitely

recommend to set this before starting the game!

I set Game Graphics on Medium!

I really enjoy the Game!
Comparing performance it my some difference with Windows XP. Windows may perform slightly better.... Bud I don't care! Now on Ubuntu + Wine it's good enough!
By by Windows!!!