Everyone online says the difference is like 5-10%. But in my experience using on nvidia rtx 20 it’s always 20-25% fps loss compared to windows. Regardless whether i’m bottlenecked by GPU or CPU, on DX11 and DX12 games, it’s always 20-25% FPS defecit. Is that expected?
Using Wine-GE 8.1X with latest dxvk, d3dvk with bottles manager on fedora with nvidia drivers.
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I’ve found that it depends heavily on what game you’re playing. I wouldn’t say 20% loss is uncommon.
You could try using a kernel tuned for gaming but it probably won’t make up the difference.
Honestly you’re probably better off not comparing to Windows. You’ll often fall short performance and feature wise.
Edit: I’ve also found that people tend to oversell Linux. We desperately want more users but exaggerations do more harm than good.
You should also mention which nvidia driver you’re running btw
I was seeing 30-40% performance loss in BG3 and the stutters were too frequent to play Apex Legends. After that I gave up on gaming on Linux. If I’m doing any dev work I use my Linux partition, but day to day I drive windows for gaming.
I actually got better performance in BG3 with my Arch system compared to Windows. The game crashes to desktop every 10 minutes in windows and runs relatively stable in Linux.
Ironically, I actually got better performance in Fedora than Win11, same machine, playing Monster Hunter World. I think in my case it was because of the background stuff running in Windows. I run Linux pretty bare.
Deficit? That’s unusual. In most cases the performance is better on linux. Perhaps an nvidia issue?
