• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    Games run faster on SteamOS with proton than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

    FTFY. I hate all these articles that downplay the heavy lifting proton (and all the tools that make it up) are doing. But “Proton makes games run better” doesn’t get the same attention.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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      27 days ago

      I’m not sure it’s a Wine/Proton thing, it’s quite likely to be suboptimal at some things because it’s reverse engineered (not to diminish technical marvel that it is and decades of effort). Regular desktop Windows has just way too much overhead coming from everywhere.

      As a side note, back in the day when Nvidia released drivers for FreeBSD using Linux binary compatibility layer was even faster than Linux for gaming.

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      27 days ago

      Would love to see tests like this attempting to use DXVK etc (as part of their testing on Windows) to better isolate more factors