On: Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

[Vilian]

That's amazing, it would be interesting to see benchmarks comparing the two versions

[rbits → Vilian]

Yeah that would be nice. Some native Linux versions actually have worse performance than Proton when they're done poorly. I got ~60fps on the Linux version of Silksong, but 400fps running the Windows version through Proton.

[hunterloftis → rbits]

That sounds like possibly a configuration issue rather than strictly performance (although I agree the symptom is worse performance). For instance, specifically the value "~60fps" vs something as high as 400fps sounds like running with vsync enabled vs. with it disabled.

[MyOutfitIsVague → rbits]

That sounds like vsync to me. I'd be worried if I was rendering 400fps when my monitor can't get close to displaying that framerate.

[WithinReason → rbits]

The linux version gets 340 fps on the SD for me, same as the Proton version

[nullbyte808 → rbits]

sounds like the game was capped to 60

[neuroelectron → rbits]

Wow, I wonder if it would be easier to just target proton directly

[Telaneo → neuroelectron]

It would be, since targeting proton is largely just targeting Windows and not falling into a few traps most games don't fall into anyway.

[johncolanduoni → neuroelectron]

It definitely is if you have an engine with a DX12 backend but no Vulkan backend. Nothing stops you from detecting Proton and then tweaking uses of the DX12 APIs that translate poorly to Vulkan, and there's no way adding a whole new rendering backend will be easier than writing the extra code paths in the DX12 one.