Windows: 277 Linux: 298

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    I’m not exactly playing anything new but I’ve been playing Grounded (the first one) on Window for like 2 months. My computer was so hot it was warming up my entire room.

    I switched to Linux due to other Microsoft issues and decided to give it another shot. Man, my computer doesn’t really get warm at all. Like yeah I can see the temp monitor change a little bit but not much. There’s no hot air pouring out of my PC. I’m not sweating sitting next to it.

    I’ve made no changes to any game settings (other than using proton) or hardware changes. It’s an insane difference.

    • iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I love Vulkan so much. Having everything precompiled ahead of time is probably a big contributing factor on why your machine is running cooler. It’s just pulling from the shader cache instead of doing on the fly computation for shaders.

        • iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          The long and short of it is that Vulkan and other modern graphics APIs are extremely explicit. As the game developer, you tell the GPU exactly what resources are being used, when they’re available, and how work is synchronized. Once you’ve built those command buffers, the driver mostly just submits them to the hardware “fire and forget” style basically.

          Older APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D 11 were much higher level. You described what you wanted to draw, and the graphics driver figured out resource transitions, synchronization, and a lot of the scheduling behind the scenes. That made them easier to use but also added CPU overhead and made performance less predictable.

  • damwab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    Oh wow, wonder why that is! Microslop is only here to slowly but surely make your computer a slave to their system, Linux along with pretty much all FOSS are here to keep your computer yours (some exceptions sadly exist)

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        How is there not an Arch-derived distro that uses a cat in the shape of the Arch logo for their logo?

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            I did think of that one after. It’s still not a cat arching it’s back, like the pictures above, though. Those cats are so close to being in the shape of the Arch logo that someone should make a cat Arch logo.

        • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I think it’s an AUR package you can download and configure, probably the one that caused all the security issues for AUR the other week.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    Didn’t valve test this sort of thing over a decade ago and found Linux to easily get better performance?

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    371·
    2 days ago

    In many games it does, but I’m not sure this comparison is a good example of that, as it shows persistent CPU stutter on Linux. With those spikes, Windows would be the smoother experience even if the average frametimes are slightly better on Linux.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      As I… think has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you can run Gamescope + Proton + Wayland, and force the refresh rate.

      You can do this with xrandr or sometimes some games actually expose it as a thing you can directly configure.

      Presumably, you could set this to, for this example, 90, and probably help out the frame timing variance a bit.