• LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      25·
      2 months ago

      Proton is Wine with dipping sauces and gaming stuff. When it comes to running Windows Programs they’ll run basically the same things.

      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncryptedEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Not necessarily.

        I’ve had a couple instances where a game would run in Wine but not in Proton or even GE-Proton.

        It was Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Lol. In Proton (or GE-Proton), the game would run but it wouldn’t save games, not even autosaves. But I played it using Wine and it worked totally fine.

        My point is it’s very rare but it can happen.

          • Mactan@lemmy.ml
            5·
            2 months ago

            proton is based on the once a year “stable” releases and only brings in bits and pieces for specific games otherwise

        • netvor@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Good point.

          Ironically … i’ve played exactly the same game in Proton on Steamdeck (I’m assuming that’s using Proton; i did not check TBH) just few weeks ago and it all worked just fine. Maybe they fixed it in the meantime or it depends…

          (But yeah your point stands.)

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      2·
      2 months ago

      There have been plenty of similar techniques (esync and fsync) in Proton for years. That’s basically why the work was started to get this into Wine in the first place.

      The way I understand it this is proper support in the kernel and Wine. So you will still get some improvement. But it won’t be any way nearly as large as the article suggests.

      I bet those patches are already in Proton-GE or at least GE is likely already working on adding them. For Valve’s Proton I suspect they will be added for version 11 or 12 at the latest.