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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 hours ago-
You can run DXVK in Windows, too.
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Antivirus (even Windows Defender with defaults) can massively slow down disk IO in some games. As an example my Rimworld loading times were over 2X as long with Defender realtime active, and it caused all sorts of hitching.
I’m not trying to dunk on Linux here; it can help a ton, sometimes. Sometimes it is Linux that provides the massive boost.
…But sometimes it’s just about a good default configuration, with linux gaming OSes provide. Windows can be like this too, once it’s stripped down.
Again, not trying to dunk or tout either OS; I use both, though linux mostly. But I think attribution is important.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I get all that, they’re all very good points. I had windows tuned to the best of my abilities, I try to use windows whenever possible at home because I manage windows servers professionally and it’s helpful to get as much hands on time with the platform as I can. But this was such a dramatic difference out of the box that I’m going to stick with it for now at least. I’m not willing to invest the time into tweaking windows to run this well (if I even can) and it’s a dedicated gaming rig so many of the “Linux on the desktop” complaints won’t apply to my use case.
Mostly I’m shocked that getting significantly improved performance when running through a compatibility layer was even possible. I expected proton to be almost as good as native. In this instance it ended up being a huge improvement.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah. Wine/Proton is an incredible achievment. DirectX->Vulkan translation is a miracle by itself.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Thanks for the tips but I’m a very experienced windows user, I did all of that immediately after install lol. To put it in perspective, my first step after installing bazzite was to join it to my personal AD domain that lives on my hyper-v cluster. If there’s something I could have done to get this performance on win 11 it would have probably been significantly more complicated and time consuming than any of the basics.