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In the case of Elite Dangerous, I actually did load up Windows temporarily when its expansion pack "Odyssey" released. It was notorious for having awful performance in certain scenarios, and even then, while performance was bad with Wine and DXVK, it was just slightly worse on Windows lol. Thankfully it runs a lot better nowadays.
Oh yea, and Quake 4 natively runs way better than on Windows which isn't exactly impressive nowadays, but.....
Honestly I just think this is interesting to see, so I'm curious; are there any games you find similar results in?
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I played elite dangerous around 2019. Ran super stable for me via wine (proton didn't work). I might hop back in sometime, but I don't think I'm dedicated enough to do the latest DLC.
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I actually had no idea this was a thing! That's really fascinating. When you say natively, you mean literally straight from a native binary and OpenGL? Crazy to me (as someone who only tried WoW briefly in its later years), but awesome.
Yeah I totally getcha, Elite is a serious commitment in and of itself. For most people I feel like, you're either really invested in it, or you just don't play 😁
I don't use Steam, but I hear it runs really well in Proton nowadays, and I believe it, the Proton project is quite awesome.
BTW agreed, Morrowind just works on Linux.. never had a great time trying to coax it to work on Windows when I had that.
Last edited by ridge on 15 September 2022 at 10:12 pm UTC
You can use DXVK on windows in order to make older games work also
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I think this combined with the potential for much less overall resource use in many distros helps a tonne. Not to be all "neener neener" towards Windows users but.......
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I don't know if this is still the case.
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Fancy that! I had no idea there was a Discworld game :O I'm definitely gonna give it a go.
Last edited by ridge on 17 September 2022 at 5:43 pm UTC
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There are also cases where an older game doesn't work well (hitchy performance), and works better in a Wine environment. Old games like the original F.E.A.R. and Far Cry, for a personal example off the top of my head.
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If memory serves me right, there is 3 in total:
The first two titles are ScummVM games so they should work fine on any modern computer.