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[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

I don't care about benchmarks; I care about compatibility and errors. The specs that would matter to me would be things like CPU architecture, which team made the GPU, and which Linux distro they're running. Maybe number of monitors/resolution/framerate/use of freesync or framegen, too, since that can affect glitches.

[-] 123@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Right, "more powerful" or "less powerful" are completely meaningless without context. E.g.: hollow knight has some serious bugs on the controller input (for some popular controllers like 8bit do ones) on the Linux version due to some outdated version of a library they use on some input modes. Silksong doesn't even register the inputs for that same setup. Both work perfectly on proton with the same hardware. Drivers and software play a more important role in playability than raw specs and benchmarks.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

Maybe number of monitors/resolution/framerate/use of freesync or framegen, too, since that can affect glitches.

The problem with that is, this is highly dependent on the settings you set to play the game. Your system may have 4k, but you maybe play the game at 1080p with upscaling and RayTracing enabled. I mean this is just an example. Therefore it could be misleading information for many. There is a reason why even Protondb doesn't list that. In my initial reply and suggestion here I excluded stuff like refresh rate and resolution for that reason.

this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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