Wine 11 Rewrites How Linux Runs Windows Games At the Kernel Level (xda-developers.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/24/1946246/wine-11-rewrites-how-linux-runs-windows-games-at-the-kernel-level
- Source link: https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
> The numbers are wild. In developer [2]benchmarks , Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS. As well, Call of Duty: Black Ops I is now [3]actually playable on Linux, too. Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.
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> The games that benefit most from NTSYNC are the ones that were struggling before, such as titles with heavy multi-threaded workloads where the synchronization overhead was a genuine bottleneck. For those games, the difference is night and day. And unlike fsync, NTSYNC is in the mainline kernel, meaning you don't need any custom patches or out-of-tree modules for it work. Any distro shipping kernel 6.14 or later, which at this point includes Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04, and more recent releases, will support it. Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free.
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> All of this is what makes NTSYNC such a big deal, as it's not simply a run-of-the-mill performance patch. Instead, it's something much bigger: this is the first time Wine's synchronization has been correct at the kernel level, implemented in the mainline Linux kernel, and available to everyone without jumping through hoops.
[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/960275/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1kfoa5c/psa_ntsync_makes_black_ops_1_playable_at_full/
If anything will do it (Score:5, Insightful)
If anything will get people to move to Linux, increases in gaming performance will. I know a couple of people who moved to Linux and virtually every game they play runs faster on Linux than on Windows. Also, some oddball USB stuff that wouldn't work under Windows works perfectly under Linux. They're not going back; they're more than happy using Linux as their daily driver.
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Yes. But you can't go into any retail establishment and buy a Linux computer with Steam.
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True, but that's already not what the hardcore gamers do. They build and tweak their own systems for optimal game performance. Obviously installing and learning Linux isn't out of the question in their quest for max FPS.
Re: If anything will do it (Score:2)
Did the Legion Go S I bought at Best buy just cease to exist?
Re:If anything will do it (Score:4, Interesting)
The problem is multiplayer. Very few games run under Linux with multiplayer because of the anti-cheat software. Because companies sell cheating software for quite a bit of money there are real engineers writing it and so the software itself is pretty sophisticated and usually kernal mode or damn near
And frustratingly single player games or a relatively small part of the industry now.
If anything moves people to Linux it's going to be America turning into a fascist hellscape. Europe is not going to be able to allow so much critical infrastructure to be running on software owned by a citizen of a country that can't be trusted. It's true that Bill Gates being a billionaire isn't really an American in the sense you and I are, at that level of wealth you're really above the concept of nation states anymore, but there would be concerns about him being compromised by the US government.
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Depends what you mean by "very few"
[1]https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [areweanticheatyet.com]
Check the list, see what your collection looks like.
[1] https://areweanticheatyet.com/
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Year 2082, quiet cemetery, birds chirping. And a mob with pitchforks shouting something about some Bill, some bad Windows 3094. While I was far from a fan of his business methods, I can agree they worked. But todays Microsoft bad or g.. bad has nothing to do with Bill. Leave him alone, maybe? And for your concern, you can calm down, USA laws already have ensured fully that they can what you fear. And they do.
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> "The problem is multiplayer. Very few games run under Linux with multiplayer because of the anti-cheat software."
If people start flocking to Linux, there will be so much pressure to drop anti-cheat or to have it use Linux-friendly methods, it won't last or be a barrier.
> "If anything moves people to Linux it's going to be America turning into a fascist hellscape"
Yawn. There is little difference from that perspective of now compared to a few years ago. Or a dozen years before that. The word "fascis
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> "If anything will get people to move to Linux, increases in gaming performance will."
Maybe? I know few people, personally, who have much interest in gaming at all. Even fewer who are seriously into gaming. Gaming is an important market, for sure. But there are tons of people who don't game under MS-Windows. They use it because that is what they know, that is what was loaded, or that is what is required for package XYZ to run needed by work, school, or hobby.
As long as it is easy, "free"/included (i
Will this finally make ReactOS useful? (Score:2)
Would be nice to be able to use it for actual work.
Re:Will this finally make ReactOS useful? (Score:4, Insightful)
Well if you are in the us system76 might have something fot you
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> "Would be nice to be able to use it for actual work."
Would it? How would it be better than existing Linux distros with tons of high-performance native apps AND the ability to mimick whatever GUI the user is familiar with AND use WINE to do better at running MS-Windows programs?
ReactOS development has been going on for decades and still doesn't have much to show for itself. I see ReactOS as a kludge to try and make a free and open version of inferior technology. We already have a free and open OS with
Wine 11 (Score:3)
Well at least someone can get their 11th version of something running correctly.
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Apple only had cooperative multitasking until the the first UNIX based Mac OS in 1999. Look how far we've come. /s