It’s annoying all the articles are focusing on performance versus stock wine here when basically everyone uses Proton or a fork of it anyway, which has had fsync for years now that does similar performance uplift.
The story here should be that we’re getting fsync level performance with fewer bug and it can be upstreamed to wine. There is no relevant performance uplift for Proton users, but I guess performance gets clicks so that’s the story all the press are going with.
I can’t believe stock wine is still so bad with so many games. GTA5 is still unplayable with a keyboard, it just freezes for 5 seconds with every single keypress.
You google the game to see if smarter people have done the investigating.
If not, you just parse logs and errors best you can and try determine what needs enabling.
Generally though, enabling “everything” doesn’t come with any direct drawbacks. This is basically what bottles will do when you tell it you want to run a game, which will then allow most games to work fine.
It’s annoying all the articles are focusing on performance versus stock wine here when basically everyone uses Proton or a fork of it anyway, which has had fsync for years now that does similar performance uplift.
The story here should be that we’re getting fsync level performance with fewer bug and it can be upstreamed to wine. There is no relevant performance uplift for Proton users, but I guess performance gets clicks so that’s the story all the press are going with.
Fsync is not in the mainline kernel though, you need a custom kernel with support for it. NTSync will be in the mainline kernel.
Yes it is. It’s not in mainline wine, it’s been in kernel for a long time now.
I can’t believe stock wine is still so bad with so many games. GTA5 is still unplayable with a keyboard, it just freezes for 5 seconds with every single keypress.
I would just run external games through steam with proton if you have those kinds of issues.
You don’t even have to do that.
Wine managers like Bottles make it extremely easy to slap on whatever fixes and wine variants you might need.
How do you know what fixes/Wine variants you need?
You google the game to see if smarter people have done the investigating.
If not, you just parse logs and errors best you can and try determine what needs enabling.
Generally though, enabling “everything” doesn’t come with any direct drawbacks. This is basically what bottles will do when you tell it you want to run a game, which will then allow most games to work fine.