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With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Proton is Wine plus DXVK and VKD3D, as well as a big pile of little tweaks and out of tree changes that Valve maintains to specifically maximize game compatibility and performance.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It sounds a lot like what the GPU driver providers used to do (and probably still do, despite all DX12 and Vulkan's promises of making that unnecessary) on top of making the drivers.

And that is basically "fixing badly written games so they perform well on the hardware".

As far as I can tell, Intel has been using ~~Proton's fixes~~ DXVK to get their drivers working on older games on Windows

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

DXVK is not "Proton's fixes". It exists as a separate entity whose development Valve has helped fund and who Valve devs have directly contributed to.

Proton's fixes are out-of-tree tweaks to DXVK, Wine and VKD3D that, put together, make games work much more seamlessly and smoothly than they otherwise would.