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eahman05on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

I don't know why it is in my case, but I suspect it's because Wine and/or the AMD drivers on Linux don't implement as many visual effects as there are on Windows, which makes the game easier on the GPU.

eahman05on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

If you use Wine to play DirectX 9 games, try the d3d9 fork. It's a fork with patches that give a much increased performance with DirectX 9 games which aren't merged into the Wine mainline because of the usual bikeshedding reasons. I use it to play WoW and I get better performance than on Windows.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9

eahman05on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

The only reason I still use Windows is Win32.