The numbers are wild. In developer benchmarks, Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS.
Might have to make another effort to switch to Linux. Kind of a side question about Linux, is there a good android emulator? On windows I’ve been using Google play games which has official support for my game of choice but if an emulator will work I don’t know what else I use that’s locked to windows.
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For gaming on Linux the only major release I can think of that I feel like I’m missing out on running exclusively Linux on my PC is Marathon, and that’s not a Linux/WINE problem but that Bungie hates FOSS and people who use it. The new Resident Evil, Toxic Commando, Nioh 3, even MH all run as expected on my hardware.
Assuming we can get RAM and video cards in a couple years, Anti-cheat will be the next big hurdle for Linux, and I dunno if multiplayer is worth whatever that solution looks like if it’s giving kernel level access to a game studio and their publisher that have no business with that kind of access.
Marvel Rivals,Overwatch, Helldivers 2, Arc Raiders all run without trouble on Linux. Its totally possible to focus heavy on multiplayer games while being on Linux these days which is pretty cool. Im curious about Marathon but not enough to drop Linux for it.
Ironically Wine 11 is a leap forward, while Windows 11 is… not
is there a good android emulator?
Waydroid is my go to. It runs Android 13 and performance is near native since it uses your linux drivers where it can
Thank you, I’ll have to give this a try.
- Wine
- Is
- Now an
- Emulator
Wow these are crazy performance gains :D
is there a good android emulator?
You can install an x86 build of Android in QEMU. I haven’t tried it in a long time though.
Thank you! I’m not 100% sure if the game will support that but I’ll have to give it a try.
Now get Apple to include it in macOS. They sell laptops and desktops for $500 ($600, if you can’t get a .edu address to use). “Linux” is cool but it doesn’t get you around the problem of PC build costs. For those who already have a computer, they could just run a Windows partition. They don’t need Wine, but it’s nice to have.
