NTSync Patch in Linux Kernel Could Help Wine Performance?!
- Thread starter Gizmo
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Anything to help Wine/Proton is a plus for us gamers!
Honestly, most games are running pretty good already! My hardware is the limitation at this point. Gotta upgrade, but the SSD and Memory 'shortage' is a concern cause I want to build 4 budget gaming PCs in the near future.
Honestly, most games are running pretty good already! My hardware is the limitation at this point. Gotta upgrade, but the SSD and Memory 'shortage' is a concern cause I want to build 4 budget gaming PCs in the near future.
Kaitain
Active Member
I think that point was quite well made in the video, though - it's not the same sort of revolutionary change that fsync delivered, but re-imagines it by removing the need for a translation layer. If you've got a game that's heavily CPU limited, and relies a lot on Windows shared resource calls, then removing the need to map those calls onto their Linux equivalent through a third process will free up a few percent of processor time, which can then be consumed by the game.
How much difference this will make in day to day gameplay remains to be seen - I would expect that the first iteration or two of Wine and Proton that use it not to be fully optimised.