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In some rare cases like L4D IIRC. However it's highly unlikely for the simple reason that most of Linux GPU drivers are inferior to Window's.

• ekianjo 10y ago
  > L4D IIRC This was not using WINE.
  • boondaburrah 10y ago
    I was playing portal before it was available for linux (it was 2008 and I don't think there was even a mac client for steam yet). It ran faster on mac under wine than it did on windows, but I did notice wine was downgrading the graphics a bit (probably to DX8). It's possible they were playing L4D under wine before the "native" linux client was released. (the native client still uses a DX -> GL translator for shaders IIRC. Valve open-sourced it.)
    • ekianjo 10y ago
      > (the native client still uses a DX -> GL translator for shaders IIRC. Valve open-sourced it.) yes, toGL - but it's not actively developed anymore. It was Richard Geldreich's project if I recall correctly. > It's possible they were playing L4D under wine before the "native" linux client was released. I did play it under WINE before the native client was released, but the native one was faster.
  • ManlyBread 10y ago
    And AFAIR once the improvements were discovered these were carried over to Windows versions as well.