Capcom appears confident in its games and offers a generous demo of Onimusha: Way of the Sword for everyone to play. This game reminded me a lot of Nioh 3, only with a smartass as the main character. Just like Team Ninja has its own engine for the Nioh games, Capcom utilizes its in-house technology, the RE-Engine, for Onimusha, and, to spoil the ending, it runs beautifully. The RE-Engine already impressed me in Pragmata. But there’s a catch, one that already plagued Pragmata and, from what I could find, RE Requiem: Ray tracing. For some reason, this option is grayed-out in the main menu on Linux.

But first, let me welcome you to another Linux performance analysis.

Let’s dive right in and begin the dance of swords to quench our hunger for FPS with tasty humans.

Err… well… actually, I’m drawing an absolute blank when it comes to Onimusha, so it’s impossible for me to make silly references and jokes, as I normally try to do. What I just said refers to the demo, though. It has nothing to do with a diabolical taste for sacrifices.

(I swear.)

I also have a German version of the video.

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JAARRRR, Mateys!

Fine, I’ll stop with that. But you’d better ready yourself for a metaphorical mutiny. Now, somehow Hardware Unboxed sneakily boarded my pirate-pun galleon and raided its treasure chest full of allegories for their GPU benchmark video. So, if I happen to parrot one of theirs, it’s sort of by accident. Captain Morgan forbade me from memorizing them, and I’m not double-checking their video just to avoid looking like a filthy privateer. Their exhaustive Black Flag GPU benchmark intro is full of quips that I now have to Sailor’s Jig around.

Thanks, Steve!

You should watch it, though, to find out the baseline performance of your GPU. But: Chances are you probably already did. So, after you finished my analysis, please tell me whose pirate jokes you preferred.

With that out of the way, ahoi to another Linux performance analysis.

Let’s find out how the remake of the darling of Assassin’s Creed games runs on Linux. Does it float my boat, or is it a drunken sailor? And how does it stack up against Windows 11?

Grab your favorite beverage as long as it’s rum, and then let’s go on a quest for ships.

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Stellar Blade’s first signs of life appear to come from a Tech Trailer in 2019, when it was revealed as „Project EVE“. Sony showed a first real trailer in a 2021 PlayStation showcase, and in 2022, a story trailer revealed the name: Stellar Blade.

What initially looked like a dress-up meme game with a bit of fistycuffs turned out to be a top-notch action game with a compelling, deep combat system. What also helped, of course, were the generally attractive visuals and female charms of the game’s heroine. The latter is an endless source of click-baity thumbnails (😉).

A PC demo was released in May 2025, and about one year later, I actually noticed that. The final version for PC followed in June of 2025.

And with that, hello and welcome to another Linux Performance Analysis. We’re taking a look at the Stellar Blade demo on PC on Bazzite Linux. Since it’s only a demo, access to levels is limited, and as such, so is what I can test and show.

We all know about Eve’s virtues, but how does she do on a Linux PC? Let me already put one fear to rest: the many… physics effects run without NVIDIA’s PhysX, so RTX-5000 users can relax now. And yes, AMD users, too. It’s just more fun to mock NVIDIA right now. AMD isn’t any better, I know. Back to the topic.

The more important questions we want to answer are how many FPS we can get and whether typical Unreal 4 issues intrude on the fun.

As always, I’ll briefly go over the hardware and software, and we’ll look at the game launch and main menu before we dive into the performance.

I also have a German version of this video.

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I recently took a look at four Open-World games in a benchmark battle between Bazzite Linux and Windows 11. Fifty percent of the results were as expected, and the other fifty percent turned out to be suboptimal for Linux. Since viewers often comment on my videos that they get better performance with a different distro, or ask whether I have checked out this or that distro, they eventually wore me down. I installed CachyOS and benchmarked the four titles from the previous blog post again, and we’ll briefly take a look at the results.

Three quarters are business as usual, and one quarter is actually interesting.

This is going to be a short affair without much fanfare, so let’s get to it.

I also have a German version of the video.

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Nioh 3 is highly anticipated by many gamers, and it looks like Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja are confident in the game’s quality, as they have released a demo on Steam and PlayStation. Kudos for doing that. I’m primarily interested for technical reasons. Team Ninja games usually have a, let’s call it, interesting performance-to-visuals ratio.

To save you time, let me say right up front that you can easily achieve 100 FPS or more with hardware similar to mine if you stick to the default presets. Let me repeat that because it’s an important detail: if you stick to the default presets. As you can see in the background, the FPS counter is essentially stuck at the 120 mark.

The visuals are attractive and serve their purpose, although nothing to write home about. More important in a fast-paced, combat-oriented Team Ninja game is how it feels to play. If you enjoy games like this, I think you won’t be disappointed.

But Nioh 3 is not without its idiosyncrasies. And I’m not talking about how quickly the story turns batshit crazy like a Jim Carrey performance.

If you’re interested, stay tuned.

I also have a German version of the video.

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