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I read this initially as windows 11 and was super lost.
I did too, at first I saw “W… 11” and thought Windows, then had to reread it and read “Win… 11” and it still didn’t make sense and finally had to tell my brain to slow the fuck down and fully read it to see that it said “Wine 11”
I have a bad habit of skimming important things, makes titles like this a nightmare to read.
Dude me too! I saw Win11 and I was like wait how are they making it better and when did this happen lol
From the email;
The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to 150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself:
| Game | Upstream | ntsync | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anger Foot | 69 | 99 | 43% |
| Call of Juarez | 99.8 | 224.1 | 125% |
| Dirt 3 | 110.6 | 860.7 | 678% |
| Forza Horizon | 108 | 160 | 48% |
| Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris | 141 | 326 | 131% |
| Metro 2033 | 164.4 | 199.2 | 21% |
| Resident Evil 2 | 26 | 77 | 196% |
| The Crew | 26 | 51 | 96% |
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 130 | 360 | 177% |
| Total War Saga: Troy | 109 | 146 | 35% |
The whole thing is worth a read to see how this works, but jumps from 110 fps to 860 fps is just insane. The wine team has done some really great shit with this.
An important note is that this is compared to base wine, not Proton with Esync/Fsync.
There may have still been significant gains, since those were some of the games worst affected by the lack of proper sync, but someone would need to run more benchmarks to find out.
Yeah. This whole results thing isn't really a well-structered article like you might get from a real journalist, so much as a quick and dirty comparison for examples sake in a software update push.
Please ~~fox~~ fix that terrible formatting :p
Edit: as context, op's original post had formatting that was all over the place haha
Anything for you boo 😘
Make sure to fix your fox typo too.
Ok, that was freaky. My girlfriend calls me boo, and with the kiss emoji i was freaking out for a while hahaha
Is this in cachyos?
Ahh it was added last year, I just switched this week. https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-March-2025-Release
Oh, that's cool! I just switched from Windows to CachyOS a few weeks ago. It started out as an experiment to see how usable it would be, since I've always run into issues with nvidia drivers in the past. I kept Windows as a boot option, but I literally haven't booted it in 3 weeks now. Everything just works, and works really well!
Yeah, I did see some talk about uses being hesitant as this was a very new thing that the OS was adding as a default but seems to have worked out.
For sure. I've tried to use various Linux distros as a daily driver several times in the past. But when it came to gaming, I would always run into hardware compatibility issues. Eventually, I would give up since gaming is my most frequent use for my desktop PC. But this time has been incredibly trouble-free. I think the only significant issue I've run into is that I had to manually build the xone driver to get my wireless xbox controller dongle to work.
Oh nice! I was thinking this will improve my Linux gaming even more, but it's already used :)
It feels like a lifetime ago when everyone was talking about NTsync, glad it's finally here for Wine as well.
Wait, werent they akready at par?
Depends on the game.