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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

(arstechnica.com)
445 points _JamesA_ | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.588s | source
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cma ◴[25 Jun 25 23:04 UTC] No.44382620[source]▶
How about if installed on Microsoft Dev Drive instead of plain NTFS?
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nullify88 ◴[26 Jun 25 04:10 UTC] No.44384114[source]▶
You can also achieve nearly the same level of performance by adding exclusions to Windows defender. I typically exclude the game process as I still would want folders scanned when updates / downloads are running. There's a noticable improvement to load times, streaming texture latency, and CPU utilisation.

I don't believe ReFS is contributing so much to the performance improvements seen when using Dev Drives. Removing storage filters from volumes can go a long way.

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p_ing ◴[27 Jun 25 02:02 UTC] No.44393162[source]▶
The file system filter is still queried using exclusions. Eliminating all file system filters yields a faster read/write.
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1. nullify88 ◴[27 Jun 25 04:36 UTC] No.44393738[source]▶
According to some benchmarking removing the storage filters offers a mild boost when compared to adding an exclusion and you don't have the benefit of some AV protection when other processes are accessing the volume like steam etc.

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2023/11/22/test-driving...

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2. cma ◴[27 Jun 25 15:57 UTC] No.44397804[source]▶
In WSL 1, unix find and git status still run about 4x faster on Dev Drive than on NTFS with defender off.