• Vash63@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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              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.