The Witcher 3's Linux stutter looks like a network check running 10 times a second

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 13 Oct, 09:43 UTC

The stutter Linux players report in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt looks like a network check rather than anything to do with the graphics card. A Wine bug report filed on October 8 at 22:56 UTC says the game asks Windows whether the machine is online about 10 times a second on its main thread, ... The…