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What's the performance of the games? Is emulation killing a hardware? I have a laptop that is some 5-6 years old and has a Intel HD 620 on it.
by taubek 5y ago
What's the performance of the games? Is emulation killing a hardware? I have a laptop that is some 5-6 years old and has a Intel HD 620 on it.
- Kaze404 5y agoFrom my experience, most games have no perceptible performance impact. Some, however, seem to run much better for some reason like Final Fantasy XIV.
- raxxorrax 5y agoGames support Linux either natively or through Steam that leverages Wine (Wine is no emulator), which just supplies the necessary libraries to build the required software environment. There can be a performance impact and some compatibility issues, but you don't have to expect this to be the case. There are even some cases where users report improved performance.
- Kim_Bruning 5y agoPerformance of the games is good, in your case the Intel graphics hardware is likely to be the bottleneck.
- taubek 5y agoTo be honest, it is also a bottleneck for some games on Windows. I'm not a gamer, but if it can run Sim City 4 it is good enough for me.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> Is emulation killing the hardware? Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;) ...well, okay, so that depends on your definition of “emulator”, but compared to a more traditional emulator like Dolphin or even Rosetta, there’s very little performance impact from Wine in most cases.
- fathyb 5y agoRosetta is actually more efficient than Wine when it comes to graphics, which is the biggest bottleneck for playing games on Wine. Metal calls are pretty much kept as-is, whereas Wine has to translate DirectX operations to OpenGL or Vulkan, like VirtualBox or Parallels. But it's true that when it comes to raw CPU power, Wine very likely provides the best performance.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWell, I feel like running a Vulkin-native game in Wine would be a better comparison here, but I could see the counterargument.
- taubek 5y agoMaybe I should then try to put Ubuntu on my laptop and give Steam a spin on it. :)
- makiftasova 5y agoHonestly, it depends on the game. Hence I suggest checking ProtonDB[0] for the games you are planning to play. Most of the reports also have details about CPU, GPU, GPU driver etc. Anecdotally, I remember playing Team Fortress 2's native port on Intel i7-2630qm CPU on my laptop back in 2012-2013 at 1366*768 resolution with no major performance difference. (setting up bumblebee was not an easy task for me back then.) [0] https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/
- taubek 5y agoThis is great! I didn't know for ProtonDB. I'll check it out.
- TrailMixRaisin 5y agoThe article or the ProtonDB website says that 80% of the top 100 games from Steam are at least Gold++. For his group Gold++ consists of 51% Games with Gold+, meaning that the run as good as on windows and additional 29% that run native on the platform. So your performance should be as good as on Windows. IIRC quite some games did run faster on WINE (if running at all) than an Windows. I would be interesting to know if the same is true for Proton.