Easy NTSYNC Arrives For Steam Users With GE-Proton 10.10

Long-time Slashdot reader drinkypoo writes: GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with Steam, and the big news is that it supports NTSYNC by default on supported platforms. That means amd64 systems whose kernel is built with the CONFIG_NTSYNC option, available in the 6.14 series or later or for 6.12 or 6.13 as a patch.

NTSYNC is support for certain fine-grained Windows NT scheduling primitives for Linux, the use of which improves performance and compatibility for Windows programs. Maximum performance gains range from modest to dramatic, with most programs falling towards the lower end of the spectrum, but it can substantially improve minimum frame rates for some titles. You can observe that ntsync is being used from the console output, e.g. using "tail -f ~/.steam/steam/logs/console-linux.txt". You will see messages like "wineserver: NTSync up and running!"

A lot of retro YouTubers

[rsilvergun]

Are turning to Linux and proton because the compatibility with Windows 11 has gotten so bad for older games

Re: A lot of retro YouTubers

[GloryWacky]

The most clever "your mom" joke I've seen in a while.

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[tlhIngan]

It's actually less Windows 11's fault and more the game's fault. It's just that previous versions of Windows let the game get away with bad practices like use-after-free, or assuming an allocated page will be zeroed (it would be if it's a new allocation - for security reasons, but not if a page is reused by the same process - it's just things like Windows might tend to give you a reused page rather than incur the overhead of having to visit the memory manager for a new page). Some uninitialized data structu

but does it work with office?

[crobarcro]

The day I can run local office programs on my laptop is the day I become truly free. Is it possible yet. And don't give me any BS about the crippled online versions of office programs, or libreoffice, which is good, but not compatible enough that I won't break files for others by using it.