felineflockWine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
Before anyone gets too excited about ntsync, the performance gains are (with few exceptions) mild, usually in the lower single percentage range. These extreme gains are the result of benching against vanilla wine without fsync, anyone playing demanding games on linux would have been doing so using fsync. This is mentioned in the article but treated like a side note. I've been running benchmarks between both and while the performance increase is real, please temper your expectations. A few titles might also run slightly worse.
>These extreme gains are the result of benching against vanilla without fsync, which is what anyone gaming on linux uses
Not for anyone using a kernel without these patches. Which would be most people.
I would assume most of them? I'd be surprised if distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. would ship non-mainline kernel features like that.
Sure, gaming-focused distros, or distros like Arch or Gentoo might (optionally or otherwise), but mainstream? Probably not.
Of course, esync doesn't require kernel patches, so I imagine that was more broadly out there. But it sounds like fsync got you performance pretty close to what ntsync can do, but esync was quite a bit behind both? With vanilla being quite a bit behind esync?
(Also, jeez, fsync, what a terrible name. fsync is a syscall that has to do with filesystem data. So confusing.)
> I would assume most of them? I'd be surprised if distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. would ship non-mainline kernel features like that.
It's best not to assume with these things.
With my stock Debian Stable kernel, Proton says this:
fsync: up and running.
And when I disable fsync, it says this:
esync: up and running.
> But it sounds like fsync got you performance pretty close to what ntsync can do, but esync was quite a bit behind both?
No, esync and fsync trade blows in performance. Here are some measurements taken by Kron4ek, who maintains somewhat widely used Wine/Proton builds:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250315200334/https://flightles...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250315200424/https://flightles...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250315200419/https://flightles...
> With vanilla being quite a bit behind esync?
Yes, vanilla Wine has historically fallen behind all of them, of course.
> Also, jeez, fsync, what a terrible name. fsync is a syscall that has to do with filesystem data. So confusing.
We can agree on this. :)