Wine is the windows compatibility layer that Proton is based on, which is how the Deck plays windows games. So any significant update to wine will directly benefit windows games on Deck, as soon as Proton is updated.
NTsync is the headlining new addition to Wine11. It replaces Esync and Fsync as a much accurate synchronizer. This should:
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Make games run smoother, removing microstutters and improving frame pacing
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Significantly improve performance in some older games that could run into major performance bottlenecks from this. You can see some fps increases here, with many of the affected games getting over twice the fps.
NTsync requires kernel support, but Valve added that in steamOS 3.7.20. Wine11's NTsync hasn't made it into Proton experimental yet, but GE-Proton has added support for it already, so it's not hard to try it out.
Wine11 also improves support for older 32 and 16 bit windows applications.
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Harvey656@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 155d
I read this initially as windows 11 and was super lost.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 155d
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”
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
I have a bad habit of skimming important things, makes titles like this a nightmare to read.
darkstar@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 154d
Dude me too! I saw Win11 and I was like wait how are they making it better and when did this happen lol
DaGeek247@fedia.io · 28 pts · 155d
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:
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.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 155d
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.
DaGeek247@fedia.io · 4 pts · 155d
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.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
Please
foxfix that terrible formatting :pEdit: as context, op's original post had formatting that was all over the place haha
DaGeek247@fedia.io · 15 pts · 155d
Anything for you boo 😘
Make sure to fix your fox typo too.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
Ok, that was freaky. My girlfriend calls me boo, and with the kiss emoji i was freaking out for a while hahaha
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 155d
Is this in cachyos?
Ahh it was added last year, I just switched this week. https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-March-2025-Release
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 155d
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!
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 155d
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.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 155d
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.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 155d
Oh nice! I was thinking this will improve my Linux gaming even more, but it's already used :)
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 13 pts · 155d
It feels like a lifetime ago when everyone was talking about NTsync, glad it's finally here for Wine as well.
ComradePedro@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 130d
When is this coming to SteamOS/Proton non beta?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 130d
It's in proton 11(beta) and proton experimental, which are both available on the deck in the compatibility menu for games. I don't know when proton 11 will move past being beta.
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
Wait, werent they akready at par?
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 155d
Depends on the game.