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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 180 points 1 week ago (39 children)

What is often overlooked

Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

Ntsync is great and there will be performance improvement. But not exactly massive

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

I don't think that's overlooked at all. 99.9% of people using WINE/Proton aren't going to have any idea what fsync is, and almost nobody not using proton-cachyos is going to use it. fsync, itself a workaround, is niche within what's already a niche.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

i use ntsync whenever i can, but i've only had linux (cachyos) on my gaming rig since like august. that said, i believe one of their recent updates made ntsync the default for proton-cachyos

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