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PC Gamers Abandoning Windows 11 for Linux with Higher FPS & Fewer Interruptions
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I moved to Linux entirely because of how shit Windows is, but I do not, in general, get higher fps. It's very case-by-case, but in general, my performance seems to be ever so slightly worse.
In a well-optimized case, Linux will consume fewer resources and is more effective at task prioritization, so it will be better. If Windows outperforms Linux, it is due to the game optimizing around Windows. Granted, across the entire suite of games, the two tend to cancel each other out rather equally.
I experience no worse fps than I would on windows. I have star citizen running better on linux then I did on the same windows machine. To each their own I guess.
I just reinstalled COD WWII recently and it really does run like shit. Framerate problems that need restarts, poor performance, the sound cuts off if it's through HDMI for some reason.
Did they ever fix the RCE exploit in WW2?
What's that?
Remote Code Execution
Ah! I had no clue. So no, I don't know if it's fixed.
Yeah. Generally Indie games run better while AAA do not.
Then again there is the whole overhead with wine and game companies benchmark windows exclusively while optimizing currently.
WINE has very little overhead because WINE Is Not and Emulator. It's just a translation layer. The performance difference in games will typically come from it being faster if run with Vulkan or not.
It tends to be AMD GPUs that have the greatest differences in favour of Linux (except for ray tracing but that is improving in recent driver releases).
I think Intel too - in other words, the Nvidia Linux driver sucks as we've always known. And as long as they refuse to either put effort into it or let the community see and fix their code it's unlikely to change
Hot and miss for sure. I have had games run better than on windows, and also worse. But there are too many other pros to running Linux to make me happy I'm not running windows.
In my experience, windows made gaming almost impossible. Stuttering and crashes and sometimes even ARTIFACTS were a constant. But Linux just works OOTB
Gaming in particular seems to be the same, with few games having noticeable differences either way.
Productivity wise, it's night and day. On Linux I can run simulations while doing other stuff, on windows I had to have a freshly rebooted session with nothing else opened and leave it alone for hours to, maybe, run without crashing.
Most things seem to run fine for me on linux, but sadly Elden Ring runs a good 10 fps slower than it ran on windows for me.
Do you have a Nvidia GPU btw?
Linux has two major offerings for display servers: X11 and Wayland.
X11 is old asf and uses TCP/IP to send your data from the GPU/CPU to the monitor.
Wayland doesn't do this I don't think... But I believe it's been known to have issues with Nvidia graphics cards.
Hope Wayland development picks up because last time I checked it still has a lot of bugs that X11 just doesn't.