How much did you do to optimize on both systems beyond the in-game settings?
Most Linux benchmarks I see have a completely stripped down version of Linux and a bloated version of Windows with tons of running background services just to get similar performance.
And those stutters are a much bigger problem than the 6fps gain.
Ignores the post, read the cat
I will ignore everything but the cat. I demand more pics of the cat.
:3
I will not ignore the cat.
Ignore the cat pic? Why did you add it?
Impressive.
Very nice.
...
Now... lets see Paul Allens cat.
I will not ignore the cat pic, in fact I enjoyed it, tyvm.
Same. This is now a cat thread.
Really needed that cat pick today. Also always cool to see Linux kicking butt
Does the cat use Arch, BTW?
Fun fact: cats use arch all the time, btw
How is there not an Arch-derived distro that uses a cat in the shape of the Arch logo for their logo?
Nyarch? Except its a catgirl
I did think of that one after. It's still not a cat arching it's back, like the pictures above, though. Those cats are so close to being in the shape of the Arch logo that someone should make a cat Arch logo.
I think it's an AUR package you can download and configure, probably the one that caused all the security issues for AUR the other week.
Didn't valve test this sort of thing over a decade ago and found Linux to easily get better performance?
Yes.
Kind of.
Its... why they spent that decade making Proton, and now basically have an OS based off of it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200504112412/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
with the caveat that that was opengl vs directx9 accross operating systems and not necessarily "easy". but it did make an important point that linux could run workloads like games in a very viable fashion.
I feel like people don't believe me when I tell them this is the case. Always glad to see evidence.
In many games it does, but I'm not sure this comparison is a good example of that, as it shows persistent CPU stutter on Linux. With those spikes, Windows would be the smoother experience even if the average frametimes are slightly better on Linux.
As I... think has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you can run Gamescope + Proton + Wayland, and force the refresh rate.
You can do this with xrandr or sometimes some games actually expose it as a thing you can directly configure.
Presumably, you could set this to, for this example, 90, and probably help out the frame timing variance a bit.
Yeah I’m not sure what’s up with that, maybe OP needs to try a different scheduler?
Irrelevant cat picture to get people to read the post works every time.
Nice cat.
Appreciate the cat image.
ITT: OP learns why reviewers take days to provide benchmarks for games. If you don't come with receipts, it's death by a thousand buts.
I once posted on /r/MacGaming how pleased I was that I could run Horizon Zero Dawn on my M2 Air using Crossover, and how it seemed (to me) to run better than on my massive, old, water-cooled PC with an Nvidia GTX1060. I wasn't getting 120fps or anything, in fact, it was closer to 20fps at times. But I was running HZD on a fanless laptop, on an architecture on which it was never designed to run.
Foolishly, I was expecting a chorus of folks saying "yeah, cool, nice!", but what I actually got were a bunch of folks demanding proof.
So I closed Reddit, because it wasn't worth the arsehole.
I will not ignore
Sometimes, you can get similar benefits on Windows running DXVK.
Some older DX9/OpenGL games like it in particular.
I shan’t ignore the cat!
Doesn't seem to happen going by the graphs included, but one thing I look in benchmarks is not how fast or not a program was, but how frequent spikes and hiccups in speed are. Having played games at 11 FPS but that were consistent at that and seemingly weren't lagging (variable max fps?), big numbers don't tell much imo.
Also, statistically, one single benchmark, and from an unamed game at that, doesn't tell much either. If I might suggest, maybe do like the microblogging folks and start a responses/quoting thread of more tests?
Cool cool. Now if only linux worked on my PC. Tried like 6 distros and each had their own issues preventing me from playing games.
Kind of curious about the hardware, because this seems kind of unlikely.
Ryzen 7 5800x with 32GB ram and a rtx3070.
Some systems failed to install or failed to complete the setup after installing. While others did technically work but the experience was just bad. Most games I tried ran like shit conpared to win11.
Hows your hardware?
Memtest your RAM?
HDD or SSD? How old are they, they got any problems?
If you keep hitting problems on connecting to timezone, it might be your wifi chip / card, could be that its an odd duck that still has driver quirks on linux, + is maybe physically damaged... could lead to a lot of nonsense if you are actually grabbing malformed core files from a not fully offline install.
Hardware's fine I think. Using a 4th gen m.2 no real issues and most pf the stuff is about 6 years old. The only distro I had timezone issues with was Fedora
Ok so 'I think' is not the same as 'yes I tested it and I know'.
But anyway... yeah you'd have to give a more detailed description of... well, pick one particular attempt at an OS install, and specifically describe what did or did not work, with that one.
I'm not trying to be an ass, but its basically impossible to troubleshoot when the info you have is 'i tried a bunch of things and they all didn't work in different ways'.
Gotta be able to go through an actual diagnosis of a defined scenario.
Does that include the gaming-centric distros like CachyOS or Bazzite?
Both of those plus Nobara
How does it handle ray tracing?
how does anything handle raytracing? I watched a friend with a 5090 show off his bullshit money rig and maybe it was a 4k monitor or something, I didn't check, but it wasn't performant enough to impress me at that price range. Its probably also lack of optimization and nobody ever leaving the default unreal engine visuals.
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