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why do many game run better with Proton than on native Linux builds? i know that it's a non-issue from the technical point of view, but it grinds my gears. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by pedka@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

I assume this is part due to many games only having support for OpenGL and DirectX, and no Vulkan support. OpenGL has the worse performance of the three, and DirectX is windows only.

But when you using proton, you are likely also dxvk, taking benefit of the optimizations made by game/engine developers for DirectX, while suffering little overhead from the DirectX to Vulkan conversion.