Linux Kernel 6.14 Deliver Big Boost to Gaming + More
Linux Kernel 6.14 Deliver Big Boost to Gaming + More
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Linux Kernel 6.14 Deliver Big Boost to Gaming + More
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The big boost for gaming is only relevant if you do not use Proton. While there might be some boost for selected games, in general the new Kernel 6.14 shouldn't make much of a difference for Steam gamers using Proton. Because Proton already got some alternative to NTSync mechanism, which improved some titles already.
The benchmarks presented with huge %-boosts and improvements are compared to previous WINE version, which do not have some of the alternative optimizations from Proton. Therefore I would be a bit cautious, if you already play on Steam using Proton.
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ntsync is superior to esync/fsync for stability. they were incompatible with certain workloads
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No doubt about ntsync being superior and better than the hacky solutions of current implementation. My point is only about the performance gains, which can be misleading to some people if they do not pay attention. I'm not saying anyone was "false advertising" here, just making clear its compared against the base WINE version and not Proton.
I'm still curious and want to see how much of a performance difference in a real Steam environment will be.
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Funny, I just saw an article saying don't get too excited about Linux gaming boosts because apparently Wine doesn't use ntsync yet, and Valve already worked around ntsync by implementing the faster fsync in SteamOS.
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esync = alpha version
fsync = beta version
ntsync = final release
Ntsync got rid of performance degradation that can occur with some games under esync and fsync and that’s the why it's allowed to go in the mainline kernel, it has no downside.
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Ntsync got rid of performance degradation that can occur with some games under esync and fsync
This explains SO MUCH! I was getting frustrated when games start out perfectly fine than 30 minutes in frames would drop significantly.
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fsync isn't faster than ntsync, it's merely a workaround to match Linux to Windows synchronization primitives. From ntsync's official description:
It exists because implementation in user-space, using existing tools, cannot match Windows performance while offering accurate semantics.
So without this, you either have a huge perfomance hit in case of an accurate implementation or you have good performance, but might run into edge cases where software doesn't work well or at all because it's not accurate (see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2922 for examples)
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not my words. It's the Valve dev who said it.
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I believe that NTsync delivers better compatibility. I do not remember the details but Fsync can cause problems sometimes. So this is more like performance without compromise.
Now that it is in the kernel, I would expect Wine to move to it and for Proton to follow suit.
One less hack to maintain.
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That's pretty cool that PowerPC was mentioned. I wish I still had my IMac G5 to run Linux on.
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You could also buy insanely expensive IBM enterprise hardware. I think they still do PowerPC stuff
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If I win the lottery, I won't tell anyone but there will be signs.
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I installed 6.14 on servers here and really see a non-trivial boost in efficiency, less CPU sitting in wait state and more executing applications.
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Gayming
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