{"id":95071,"date":"2025-06-25T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=78c644e7e3456795dd358cf275470aaf"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:25:39","slug":"games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95071","title":{"rendered":"Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/06\/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is pretty hilarious, Wintendo machines have been one of the only really unassailable strongholds for Microsoft. \nThe actual benchmarks _are_ a narrow case (SteamOS on AMD gaming handhelds), and the AMD thing is important because one of the only pieces of software they haven't botched in recent years is their Vulkan driver stack, but ... SteamOS isn't very special among Linux distros, and I suspect it will mostly generalize to anything but Nviaida who are too busy running AI grifts to care. \nWindows 11, from UI to performance, really is creaking under the weight of all the upselling roach motel crapware.<\/div><p>Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tag\/steam-machines\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Steam Machines\"-era<\/a> version of SteamOS <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/11\/ars-benchmarks-show-significant-performance-hit-for-steamos-gaming\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performed significantly worse than Windows<\/a> when SteamOS's Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. The performance advantage is yet another way that Valve's upstart OS is differentiating itself from the \"default\" Windows installation used by most PC gamers for decades now.<\/p>\n<p>While users have been able to install Windows on the Steam Deck since its 2022 launch, Valve <a href=\"https:\/\/help.steampowered.com\/en\/faqs\/view\/6121-ECCD-D643-BAA8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn't offer official \"Windows on Deck\" support<\/a> for this alternative hardware use case. Lenovo's Legion Go S, on the other hand, is the first gaming portable <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/01\/bye-bye-windows-gaming-steamos-officially-expands-past-the-steam-deck\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explicitly designed to work<\/a> with either Windows 11 (in hardware first released in January) or SteamOS (in hardware first released in May, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/05\/steamos-3-7-brings-valves-gaming-os-to-other-handhelds-and-generic-amd-pcs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new version of SteamOS<\/a> designed for non-Valve AMD hardware).<\/p>\n<p>To test the performance impact of this operating system choice, we started with the SteamOS version of the Legion Go S (provided by Lenovo) and tested five high-end 3D games released in the last five years using built-in benchmarking tools and two different graphics\/resolution tiers. We then <a href=\"https:\/\/pcsupport.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/products\/laptops-and-netbooks\/legion-series\/legion-go-8apu1\/solutions\/ht103653-lenovo-digital-download-recovery-service-ddrs-download-the-files-needed-to-create-a-lenovo-usb-recovery-key\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">installed Windows 11 on the handheld<\/a>, downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/pcsupport.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/products\/laptops-and-netbooks\/legion-series\/legion-go-8apu1\/downloads\/driver-list\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated drivers from Lenovo's support site<\/a>, and re-ran the benchmarks on the same games downloaded through Steam for Windows.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/06\/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/06\/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve&#8217;s &#8220;Steam Machines&#8221;-er&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}