[[Guide] Warframe On Linux With Wine]

Read through the thread (thanks everybody, it's been a huge help so far) and saw that a couple of people had the "takes a really, really long time to 'Check for new content'" bug, but didn't really see a solution mentioned. If I leave it for a couple of hours, it eventually seems to finish; I can hit play in the launcher, launch the game, but then the game load takes so long to load I have to leave it for another couple of hours, and then the game will be ready for me to login.

 

Since I'd just as soon not plan out my Warframe sessions 16 hours in advance, does anyone have any guidance on how to improve performance in these areas? This seems to be related to either Wine's wininet implementation (which I installed with winetricks) or some sub-optimal disk I/O performance. Winecfg doesn't give me any options to fiddle with either, though.

 

This is Ubuntu 12.10, Wine 1.7.10, installed the dll's and libraries mentioned in the thread, etc. I'm fairly certain the game works (CPU and GPU aren't likely the issue here) it's just that updating and the initial load are taking two orders of magnitude longer than they should be. Thoughts?

 

Edit: Now that I look at my router traffic, it looks like every time I launch it's downloading the entire thing all over again (2.3 GB or so.) How do I get it to recognize that it's already been downloaded?