Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
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All three Linux distros managed to beat Windows 11 while using Vavle's Proton compatibility layer.

Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks::ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems and found that all three can achieve better gaming performance than Windows 11.

  • finder@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    No mention of important metrics like frame times, and 1-0,1% fps lows. You can feel these in game, even if you have 200+ fps.

      • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Interesting, the article isn’t working well under translate and I can’t see the frame time graphs on my phone. Does it state which kernel their running these games under or if these are x11 / Wayland?

        If their just using the stock kernel there are probably some gains (even just minimal) using another with some tweaks.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Makes you wonder how much faster these games could go if Proton wasn’t needed.

    I’d like to see more configurations tested though. I have a 7950X3D CPU and I’m interested how well Linux handles assigning the “correct” cores (3D cache vs. higher frequency) depending on the game. Would also love to see whether games under Linux further profit from the large cache.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I think the impact of Proton is negligible nowadays. It’s basically just an implementation of a library the game uses. If it wasn’t Win32 it could be another library like SDL. The normal game logic is usually done in something nearer to the CPU anyways, which will be the same regardless of OS. And if the game uses Vulkan instead of Direct3D the graphics are also running almost directly on the GPU.

  • maxprime@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    I recently made the switch to Manjaro.

    I feel like these are all kinks that I’ll eventually be able to work out, but these are the issues I’ve faced so far:

    Extreme stuttering in Yuzu. It reads 60fps but it is absolutely not. Using the AUR version, since the Flatpak can’t load my roms folder from my NAS. (Before you assume the network drive is the issue, know that it is over a 10g SFP+ on an NVMe on the NAS. No problems in Windows.)

    Input issues in AUR Cemu. Cannot get my DS5 controller to work. I think it doesn’t have permissions to write to my config file for some reason so I can’t save my controller settings. Flatpak version works fine though.

    Wayland does not support my dual screens on Nvidia. Was hoping that could help with my stuttering issues… shot in the dark.

    BeamNG needs to render shaders for about 5mins before loading. Skipping leads to extreme stuttering. That is way too long for startup. Even big Yuzu games don’t take that long.

    As an aside I’m pulling my hair out trying to get Google Drive to work properly. rclone is not behaving with Codium - I can’t reliably compile in the mounted drive like I could with Google Drive stream on Windows. Sometimes it compiles and sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t know why it works sometimes and doesn’t work other times. I need this functionality for work so that’s a bummer.

    Also wake from sleep does not work.

    I’m not complaining per se, if you have any tips I’m desperate to hear some. But my experience with desktop Linux has been far from smooth and my non scientific experience so far is that performance is much much better on Windows.

    But I will stick it out this time. I think this is my fourth time trying to daily drive Linux.

    • Samueru@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Try using yuzu-mainline-git from the aur and change your compile flags (edit makepkg.conf) to match=native mtune=native and O3. That gives a 15% boost in totk.

      Also use zram instead of zswap as that that causes terrible stuttering on yuzu if you are short of ram. The usual recommendation is to use zstd compression but I can tell you that lz4 performs better on yuzu.

      “sudo pacman -S zram generator” then “sudo nano /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf” and paste this:

      [zram0]
zram-size = ram
compression-algorithm = lz4
swap-priority = 100

      Also make sure you are running gamemode with yuzu. Same with steam games.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    7 months ago

    I always thought that Linux is a better platform for games, the problem until now was not this, but the availability of games for Linux.