GloryEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a modified version of Valve’s Wine for Steam, which now includes default support for NTSYNC on compatible Linux platforms. This feature improves performance and compatibility for Windows applications by leveraging Linux’s support for Windows NT scheduling primitives, offering significant gains for certain games and applications.
NTSYNC is a support for certain fine-grained Windows NT scheduling primitives for Linux, which can improve 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.
Users can observe that NTSYNC is being used from the console output, for example, by using the command ‘tail -f ~/.steam/steam/logs/console-linux.txt’. They can see messages like ‘wineserver: NTSYNC up and running!’ indicating the feature is active.