Terrible performance compared to windows on Arch with non-steam games on proton.
Hello friends! I am back with another issue.
Recently I have taken on the task to get non steam games working on Proton. I have noticed that the performance is significantly worse with them on Linux then on Windows. More frequent stutterings and such. 100 fps consistently on Windows vs linux which it dips below 50 fps. Other "better performing" non-steam games get consistent micro stutters. I am using native steam because the flathub version because after installing dependencies with protontricks the game still would not launch.
The only possible thing I can think of is the games are on NTFS partition (yet steam regular games installed on it run just dandy). I dualboot with windows and access this particular drive between both os'. I am at a complete loss, any help would be appreciated oh Linux brotheren and sisteren.
Thank you!
(also the games drop audio consistently as well sometimes it wont come back unless I alt tab and come back to the game.)
EDIT: Hello everyone! thank you again for the help I think I have come to the conclusion that some of you suggested already. Wayland seems to be having the game perform significantly better than x11 but it still isnt quite up to par as windows. When I had tried it before I thought to myself "yeah this is better but it isn't up to par with my windows partition" so I kept searching for an answer. the conclusion I have come to is, I think this just comes down to the particular game being unoptimized. Thank you all for your suggestions! You all are truly moving mountains when helping people swap to this wonderful operating system. Hopefully one day I can get rid of my windows partition fully. (too bad I am a VR dweeb that needs windows for some applications to function 😭).
Those micro stutters and lower performance for the non-steam games are due to shaders needing to compile as you play. If you play for a while and keep the same Proton version, they'll eventually go away and performance will improve.
@entropicdrift@ludicolo
I had the same issues, but since I've changed to a specific proton version, there are no noticeable lags on my games anymore. Especially Cyberpunk 2077 and Final Fanzasy 7 Remake are running very smooth.
@ludicolo
Your hardware should be capable of doing similar results like Windows, but I consider that your hardware is ok.
On the other hand I can show you what I'm for games like Assassin's Creed and similar non-steam games.
LMDE | X11
Ryzen 7 5800x
64GB Ram
RTX 3060 Ti | 535.183.01
GTX 1080 | 535.183.01
1TB NVME | OS | btrfs
2TB Sata SSD | Games | btrfs
500GB Sata SSD | Windows VM
I've also got a QEMU Windows VM with GPU passthrough (GTX 1080) for games that I can't run on my Bottles/Steam.