MSI Kombustor runs perfectly on Linux (except for the PhysX tests) even though it is in principle only for Windows, so there's that to enjoy. It would be a lot more useful for that purpose if you could simply run through all the scenes and get an overall score. You can look at the FPS numbers from each scene while they are running and compare those, so it can be used for benchmarking. It can't run through all the scenes and produce a score or even show the average FPS in a single scene. It does show how many frames per second you get in each individual scene, so it can be used to compare performance between graphics cards and systems. It is not very useful as a general benchmarking tool. MSI Kombustor is probably a fun toy if you are bored and you want to stress test your GPU or make it produce heat during a cold winter day. FPS can also be displayed using MangoHud on the Vulkan scenes (for some reason MANGOHUD=1 mangohud wine MSI-Kombustor-圆4.exe doesn't display any MangoHUD overlay on OpenGL scenes).Ī MSI logo rendered using Vulkan. How many frames per second you get in each scene is display in the window title and on the bottom of the window/screen if you enabled Display OSI.

Some can be rendered using OpenGL or Vulkan, some can only be rendered using OpenGL. The individual tests are just single scenes displaying various things like a MSI logo or a donut. There is a fine big black RUN stress test button to start each test.

MSI Kombustor starts off with a simple window where you can select what 'Stress' test to run, resolution, Vulkan GPU/API if the test is using Vulkan and weather to run in fullscreen or not. You can run it with later versions, but you can't install it. It installs fine with Wine versions up to Wine 6.0. The installer fails to run with Wine 6.5 and 6.6. All the OpenGL and Vulkan scenes render like they should but the 'PhysX' GPU tests fail with a message saying 'No PhysX GPU support'. DXVK is not required and would make no difference since none of the tests use DirectX. The 64-bit Windows version runs almost perfectly under Wine 5.16+ (likely earlier versions too). MSI Kombustor is only available for Microsoft Windows.

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