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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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An emulator has a performance overhead. Even a simple translation layer like valve's proton has an overhead. The fact that most games are simply unoptimized and windows is so bloated means that the additional overhead of proton is not a performance bottleneck. But if one has a good hardware and a good dedicated OS, emulator is not really necessary, which is good for performances