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[–] [email protected] 149 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would just run external games through steam with proton if you have those kinds of issues.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you know what fixes/Wine variants you need?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You google the game to see if smarter people have done the investigating.

If not, you parse logs and errors best you can and try to determine what needs enabling. If you get it working, share it on protondb.

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.

The latest version of GE is generally what you want, too, as wine/GE isn't supposed to have regressions requiring the use of an older version with some games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah OK, that "everything" solution sounds perfect for me, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah for sure, thats better in every way, but if you dont want to install another application thats the easiest way.