I remember few years ago (or like 5 years ago) when I was switching to windows on and off. Maximum of 1 year I switch to Linux, in a few months I switch back.
Thanks to Steam contribution (and all the devs at winehq/dxvk), I stayed on Linux for more than a year and not planning to swith back. My favorite fps game is insurgency sandstorm.:) works great on Linux
I was seeing 30-40% performance loss in BG3 and the stutters were too frequent to play Apex Legends. After that I gave up on gaming on Linux. If I’m doing any dev work I use my Linux partition, but day to day I drive windows for gaming.
Ironically, I actually got better performance in Fedora than Win11, same machine, playing Monster Hunter World. I think in my case it was because of the background stuff running in Windows. I run Linux pretty bare.
I’m running AMD, not Nvidia, but I didnt notice much of any performance loss in the games I played during the brief time I had both Linux and Windows installed, before migrating fully to linux.
On games that worked well, at least. There was a couple games that didnt play great with proton at the time, that have long since been sorted out and run great.
hell, iirc, a couple games even ran better on linux.
I actually got better performance in BG3 with my Arch system compared to Windows. The game crashes to desktop every 10 minutes in windows and runs relatively stable in Linux.
Were you using the Vulkan renderer after Patch 2? There’s a massive performance regression that got introduced with that Patch. DX11 still works fine tho.
the stutters were too frequent to play Apex Legends
This should be fixed after graphics pipeline library support was added to both Nvidia and AMD. If you tried it before that, it was indeed a stuttery mess. It is dramatically better now.
It actually depends on several factors. Surprisingly, games that are heavily CPU bottlenecked often run better on Linux under Proton than the native Windows version.
That being said, for games that are GPU bound, a 20% deficit on a Nvidia GPU is actually about what I’d expect.
SteamOS is really evolving into something incredible. Now that it supports HDR and VRR it has become one of the best gaming experiences imo. It’s the fine tuning of a PC alongside the ease of use of a game console.
We have a lot to thank Joshua Ashton for. He started D9VK as a personal project whilst still at school, then went on to work on DXVK etc amongst other things. That bloke works all year round to make Linux gaming work better.
There was a good interview with him on gamingonlinux.com a few years back.
and yeah, 5-15% seems “normal” but 20% is pretty reasonable considering all the other factors involved. But I would be concerned.
I would say to do the following:
make sure shaders have fully precached. Steam supports this in the background which makes me wonder if it is always finished if i start a game after an update
Check a few other games and especially engines. So Unreal, Unity, a few proprietary, etc
Look into using mangohud and other monitoring tools to try to see WHAT is different. Memory usage, draw time, etc.
Here you can see how ppl run this game, there is even a user claiming you have to first link your ea account and then launch the game to pass the blank screen.
I looked through these yesterday and I’ve tried several of these fixes with no luck. Is WINE a prerequisite to running The Sims 4 off of Steam (given that I’m using Proton for all Steam games)?
What I would try in your situation (I don’t have the game so I can just give ideas):
Firstly I would try to wait a lot of time after I click on play, idk 10 minutes (because of some ppl comments on proton db I’m inclining to believe this blank screen wait until some shader compilation.
Then I would relink my ea account with steam (if it is possible, usually is, unlink and then link again).
Then I would try to run it on 8.0-2 and 7.0x In order.
Then would I close steam and delete the wineprefix, (wineprefix is a C: disk emulation where wine will run this program) on steam folder there is a compatdata folder, inside it you should find the Id of your game, it is the number in the URL of the game in steam store.
Also, I would reboot my system if I had a recent update in the last two sessions, idk why but when I update me endevour sometimes I feel the next session a little unstable until I reboot two times.
I’ve been trying to stick with Steam because Steam has been such a pleasant experience for me (besides some issues with NVIDIA but that’s not Steam’s fault) but I might have to take a look at Lutris if none of the other fixes work. Thanks for the recommendation, though!
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