oh shit
If Wendell’s investigations are found to be confirmed (higher gaming performance on Linux than Windows), this might legit be Linux’s year
I think the issue of gaming on linux hasn’t been performance for a while now (native and wine/proton performance can often beat windows) but compatibility - some games still can’t run on linux due to DRM, anti-cheat, etc. Things are gradually improving but I think that’s the main barrier for the time being
if the main barrier for entry seems to be compatibility (which is totally fair as DRM and anti-cheat can be a real pain in the ass) hopefully wine/proton (aka Steam) can come in clutch to help solve most if not all of these related issues (or anyone else that has the know to and desire to create another copyleft compatibility layer)
The problem is that modern DRM/anti-cheat often works at the kernel level, or by scanning the entire filesystem and running processes. They don’t work on linux by design, so the main route to compatibility is showing that there are enough people gaming on linux that they should seek other options for DRM and anti-cheat
just curious but what do you think about Virtualization such as QEMU/KVM and Looking Glass?
I’m a bit uninformed in this venn diagram and this will probably come off as stupid question but:
What’s the likelihood that modern DRM and/or anti-cheat could detect that it’s being run inside a VM? (I’m gonna guess pretty high unfortunately)
Edit:
rip, guess dual booting is still the closest solution atm (for those who play DRM/anti-cheat locked games)Unfortunately very high, especially with modern systems using “trusted platform module” (TPM) hardware that can tell the software exactly what’s running, at a higher privilege level than the OS
100%.
They absolutely can detect virtualization, and a LOT of games will ban your ass for it.
Wouldn’t this just be because the Windows scheduler is messed up with Zen 5 SMT?
Windows is messed up
Yes.
Two problems:
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Benchmarks are not real world performance.
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Video card drivers are still not up to snuff as they are with windows, to the best of my knowledge. (don’t kill me if i’m wrong!)
It depends: if you’re talking rasterization performance, then yeah, they’re pretty much on parity.
If you’re talking about all the other things a video card does that’s not strictly make-pixel-light-up, then it’s very much a mixed bag.
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5% is right around the corner fellas
