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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Take aways:

  • Sample set is of 5 games
  • Lenovo drivers are much slower than Asus
  • There are 2 games where windows is neck to neck or better, 3 where SteamOS is far ahead

Some doubts:

  • Did the author run the benchmarks few times to rule out shader compilation. 99%ile would be helpful.
  • I wonder if it makes sense to test DirectX10, 11 and 12 games separately to better understand where Proton has an edge.
  • I wonder what all settings can be tweaked in Windows to find potential fixes (core isolation, cpu boost, power profiles).

Point is Microsoft and OEMs need to do better, however not every game or subscription services work on Linux, so in the interim time users should know what they can do to close the gap better.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Did the author run the benchmarks few times to rule out shader compilation

Really grasping at straws there, eh? I'm no big fan of Ars but I hope we can assume they're not quite that incompetent.

[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not a slight, as I said it's a doubt, not criticism. I'm not saying "did the author EVEN ..."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your other doubts and concerns seem slightly biased, e.g. wondering what settings could be tweaked on only one of the systems being tested and then reminding us all that there do still exist some things that won't run on SteamOS. It's only that one that is outright ridiculous.

[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Biased to what? Point of comparison is to figure out why things are the way they are and use that information to get the best of both worlds? It's not very helpful if the conclusion stops at "x is better than y".

Going deeper into "why" Proton is doing better in 3/5 games but not in 2/5 will only help users of both operating systems to make better informed decisions and get everyone closer to root cause other than "bloated windows" or "just use linux", potentially even leading to improvements to both sides.

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