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Indeed, i remember that i was wondering very much, when i found that Doom3 ran noticably smoother on Linux than on Windows on the same machine. I think i was ev
by buster 7y ago
Indeed, i remember that i was wondering very much, when i found that Doom3 ran noticably smoother on Linux than on Windows on the same machine. I think i was even using wine back then.
- dingo454 7y agoI use some CAD/CAM programs on Wine and they're sensibly faster in both rendering and general usage compared to a windows install (I have a dual boot system). I can only complain about some minor font rendering issues and the lack of child window rendering [0] which is frequently used in programs like these. Once child window rendering is fixed, I will actually be considering ditching windows entirely and go wine-only. [0] https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-July/148639.html https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-July/148639...
- gnulinux 7y agoI noticed this as well. Old Windows programs, like programs from XP era and earlier ran better in Wine than Windows 7 back when I was experimenting with Wine.
- cptskippy 7y agoI wonder if that's due to the change in the way Apps are composited. In the pre Windows Vista Era, the operating system handed control over to the App to draw itself on screen. In Vista they moved to a model, like OSX, where each App drew to a buffer and the OS composited those buffers. That's part of the reason why Vista was hot steaming garbage because they were still working that transition out.
- CodeArtisan 7y agoIIRC, Borderlands 2 was running better on Wine than on Windows due to the underlying filesystem (ext4 vs ntfs).
- lokedhs 7y agoBorderlands 2 is native Linux so there is no need to use Wine. It would be interesting to see the difference in performance between running the native version and the emulated version.