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A few thoughts: 1) Proton labels like platinum, means how much effort you need to put for the game to run on linux. It says nothing about how well it will run.
by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
A few thoughts:
1) Proton labels like platinum, means how much effort you need to put for the game to run on linux. It says nothing about how well it will run. So “work on Linux” means basically that it works on Linux. It says nothing about performance. For instance I had a game labeled platinum run without effort on Arch with 50fps with constant drops to 30 ~ 25fps whereas on windows it runs at a constant 60fps with rare drops to 55/50. (Yeah, I’ve tried all variations of proton, kernel, disabled composition etc)
2) In my experience people that says that they see no difference in performance between linux and windows they usually have a powerful gpu, not a medium or low end one. So if you hear on the internet people claiming that the performance is about the same, it’s highly dependent on the game and/or your system specs.
- ekianjo 5y agoThat is mostly true. But getting games to run seamlessly is the biggest hurdle. Once you get there, there are various ways you can optimize for performance, and translation layers like DXVK and VKD3D are really close to Windows performance these days on modern GPUs. There are numerous benchs on youtube when you can see that for yourself.
- swinglock 5y agoThat's unfortunate. "Works perfectly but doesn't perform well" is an oxymoron for games.
- jlkuester7 5y agoWhat is interesting to me about the performance differences, is that, yes, on my underpowered hardware Rocket League runs better on Windows, but not so much better that I bother rebooting from Linux when I want to play. If a game is "good enough" on Linux, I think that is good enough for a lot of folks...
- TingPing 5y agoAnecdotally, I've never noticed a meaningful performance impact once the clear and obvious bugs are fixed (thus its rated platinum).
- arepublicadoceu 5y agoNot that I care much about internet points but I'm trying to understand why this is being so heavily downvoted as every reply I got is either agreeing or kind of agreeing with me. This is not a criticism for Proton, I find that getting this performance on an emulated environment is nothing short than a miracle looking from 5~10 years ago. My only intention was to set expectation accordingly for new users. And I stand by everything I've said. My hope is that in 5 years this comment will be completely outdated and new users can have compatibility and performance on par with windows, even on bad hardware.
- hn8788 5y agoI'm guessing the downvotes are from Valve/Steam fanboys who don't like any criticism of their favorite company; I see it all the time on social media sites. Valve have said that they will have every Steam game running under Proton by the end of the year, so pointing out that it's misleading statement at best will draw the ire of people who worship Lord Gaben.
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