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NarrativeBear, 11 dni temu do games w YouTube is hiding an excellent, official high-speed Pac-Man mod in plain sight

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mintiefresh, 6 dni temu do games w Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Wow, some of these are showing huge gains with Steam OS

lustyargonian, 6 dni temu do games w Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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.