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> 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 tradi
by 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. :)