Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google Stadia Port Issues

Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by buster on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:36AM (#21969877)

Indeed, i remember that i was wondering very much, when i found that Doom3 ran noticably smoother on Linux than on Windows on the same machine. I think i was even using wine back then.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by dingo454 on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#21969941)

I use some CAD/CAM programs on Wine and they're sensibly faster in both rendering and general usage compared to a windows install (I have a dual boot system).

I can only complain about some minor font rendering issues and the lack of child window rendering [0] which is frequently used in programs like these.

Once child window rendering is fixed, I will actually be considering ditching windows entirely and go wine-only.

[0] https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-July/148639...

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by gnulinux on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:49AM (#21969994)

I noticed this as well. Old Windows programs, like programs from XP era and earlier ran better in Wine than Windows 7 back when I was experimenting with Wine.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by cptskippy on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:04AM (#21970154)

I wonder if that's due to the change in the way Apps are composited.

In the pre Windows Vista Era, the operating system handed control over to the App to draw itself on screen. In Vista they moved to a model, like OSX, where each App drew to a buffer and the OS composited those buffers. That's part of the reason why Vista was hot steaming garbage because they were still working that transition out.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by CodeArtisan on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:29PM (#21971018)

IIRC, Borderlands 2 was running better on Wine than on Windows due to the underlying filesystem (ext4 vs ntfs).

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google S... by lokedhs on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:18AM (#21977123)

Borderlands 2 is native Linux so there is no need to use Wine.

It would be interesting to see the difference in performance between running the native version and the emulated version.

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