I’ve never really thought about whether the game looks the same using its Windows vs Linux renderer. I installed HL2 to check out the anniversary update and decided to try the Windows renderer on Proton. Would you look at this difference… Linux is the top one, Windows is the bottom:
Is this is a thing? Have you tried other games and seen the Windows version looking better?
huh, I kinda prefer the top one. posters are different too…
Lighting looks definitely better on the top one.
Looks like the bottom one is the top one with the outer layer of posters ripped off, interesting
Looks like draw-order to me. One is rendering overlapping decals front-to-back, the other back-to-front.
Think you could be right
What makes you say the windows version is better? The lighting looks more accurate in the top one to me.
It looks like it’s got HDR whereas the Linux one does not. But even if we say it’s a matter of pref and you like the Linux one, it’s still surprising how different they look. I’d expect them to look identical or close to.
It just looks brighter to the point it could be different gamma settings.
There is a bigger brightness range in the top screenshot the bottom looks washed out.
Could be. The gamma setting is the same across both instances - 1.6. But it’s possible that the two instances render that differently.
This is a slightly dodgy comparison - a native linux version versus a windows version run through Proton?
Bearing in mind Valve make Proton they may have done zero optimisation or work to ensure the Windows version and Proton work together. It’s possible settings need tweaking in Proton to make the game run optimally, but given there is a Linux native version of the game it’s unlikely anyone is going to have spent time doing that.
So the windows version may not be running optimally at the moment in Proton and may not get there as people aren’t going to be motivated to optimise settings.
The Windows version seems to have better HDR and some differences in textures in this shot. Performance-wise it runs great. I think this might be a case of the opposite, Valve not bothering to get all the changes they did with the 20th anniversary update to work on Linux.
When you say it seems to have better HDR, is that deduced from watching the video or looking at these screen shots? Because if we’re talking about the screen shots I’d have to disagree.
