Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by eahman05 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:25AM (#17817200)

If you use Wine to play DirectX 9 games, try the d3d9 fork. It's a fork with patches that give a much increased performance with DirectX 9 games which aren't merged into the Wine mainline because of the usual bikeshedding reasons. I use it to play WoW and I get better performance than on Windows.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by LoSboccacc on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:43AM (#17817284)

> I get better performance than on Windows

as anecdotal as it might be, I used to get better performance from wine'd dwarf fortress than with it's osx port, which is interesting I guess.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:35AM (#17817928)

I don’t know how it is today but Microsofts compiler used to produce much better code than the free compilers used on Linux and Mac OSX

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by executesorder66 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:42AM (#17818264)

Just because the compiler is good, doesn't mean the OS's CPU scheduler is any good. Nor does it mean the graphics drivers for that OS are any good. Same for the filesystem. etc.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:00PM (#17828338)

I’m not sure how that has anything to do with the difference in performance between running the Windows version on OSX and running the OSX version on OSX.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by hsivonen on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:33AM (#17818943)

clang is doing pretty nicely compared to MSVC these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17504197

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:07PM (#17828401)

That’s great but Dwarf Fortress is a 2006 game, It was probably compiled using gcc.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by see-ya-99 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:34AM (#17817686)

Back in the days of vanilla... WoW client has built-in native OpenGL support and was working perfectly under Wine.

BTW. Same with W3

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by eahman05 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:48AM (#17817297)

I don't know why it is in my case, but I suspect it's because Wine and/or the AMD drivers on Linux don't implement as many visual effects as there are on Windows, which makes the game easier on the GPU.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by LoSboccacc on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:19AM (#17817641)

I think that wine also used to drop silently shaders/features that couldn't emulate, so each single frame is easier for the gpu.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by CodeArtisan on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:06PM (#17819697)

Borderlands 2 is known for running better on wine than on Windows. IIRC the reason was the filesystems (ext4 vs ntfs).

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