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How’s gaming performance? (It’s pretty much the only reason I still use Windows at all)

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29athrowaway 3y ago
The short answer is that you can squeeze some significant extra performance if you are clever, and make it run very close to Windows. If you do absolutely nothing, the baseline is often fine. The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/ https://xanmod.org/ You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with a FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud. Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps. In some obscure cases, removing unused network interfaces will make Windows games that use certain Windows APIs run significantly faster. Proton is known to interfere with controller support so disabling steam input + overriding DirectInput DLLs can be helpful in some cases.
- 29athrowaway 3y ago
  And also solve the wine dependency hell https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/how-to-get-out-of-wine-dependency-hell/ https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/how-to-get-out-of-wine-depend...
pmarreck 3y ago
In my experience, all but a non-issue, unless you are a competitive gamer
rkangel 3y ago
It's worth remembering that all of these solutions are Wine (or Proton which is a fork) underneath, it's just a question of packaging. The Steam Deck is a Linux Gaming machine that uses Proton to make the vast majority of the Steam Library available. It works extremely well on not the most powerful hardware. You can basically play any game as long as it doesn't rely on some hardcore anti-cheat (so counts out some online multiplayer games like R6 Siege).

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The short answer is that you can squeeze some significant extra performance if you are clever, and make it run very close to Windows. If you do absolutely nothing, the baseline is often fine. The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/ https://xanmod.org/ You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with a FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud. Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps. In some obscure cases, removing unused network interfaces will make Windows games that use certain Windows APIs run significantly faster. Proton is known to interfere with controller support so disabling steam input + overriding DirectInput DLLs can be helpful in some cases.

29athrowaway 3y ago
And also solve the wine dependency hell https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/how-to-get-out-of-wine-dependency-hell/ https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/how-to-get-out-of-wine-depend...

pmarreck 3y ago

In my experience, all but a non-issue, unless you are a competitive gamer

rkangel 3y ago

It's worth remembering that all of these solutions are Wine (or Proton which is a fork) underneath, it's just a question of packaging. The Steam Deck is a Linux Gaming machine that uses Proton to make the vast majority of the Steam Library available. It works extremely well on not the most powerful hardware. You can basically play any game as long as it doesn't rely on some hardcore anti-cheat (so counts out some online multiplayer games like R6 Siege).