With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by mhh__ on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:48PM (#25341537)

Some games seem to report measurably better performance on Linux, even. I imagine outside the steady-state, loading times could be a boon for Linux given that Linux filesystems are "faster"

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by formerly_proven on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:19AM (#25344658)

Almost all games use their own VFS layer which heavily lean toward "few huge files with a lookup table" to work around NTFS' deficiencies. They used to be often chunked into 2 GB files, but since a few years developers stopped doing that. Some games even ship all their assets in a single file.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by lucian1900 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:26AM (#25356814)

Historically they do that because of consoles, not NTFS.

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