I wonder if there's also something to do with how the window scheduler (or allocator, or driver interaction, or some system component—I just guessed the schedul

I wonder if there's also something to do with how the window scheduler (or allocator, or driver interaction, or some system component—I just guessed the scheduler because it seems like the most likely thing to be different enough to drive this sort of phenomenon) approaches the task. I notice remarkably smoother gameplay with the same games under wine—even, confusingly, games developed in house at Microsoft like Flight Simulator—with the same hardware.