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This Patch Boosts Linux Gaming Performance By 50%+ (And other programs) (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is that real 50%? In my experience whenever such numbers are thrown around it actually means that a specific function call might be 50 % faster but overall it just means 50 % of a frame per second more.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Hmm... I tried running Metro 2033 a while ago and the performance even in the main menu was absolute trash - like unplayable bad. Granted, I don't have a high end system (i5-10400F, 6650 XT), but I have no idea what they used to get 164 FPS even without ntsync.

Makes me wonder though, on whether this primarily affects games that have a tendency to run badly under Linux so far. Would of course still be a good improvement but maybe not the be all end all for everything.