If you play Battlefield 2 on Ubuntu, will you have better latency?

[Hellraizer51]

I heard that latency is better on Linux than on Windows... Also, will it be better by a lot?

[el-mar01]

Well Linux has a lot more sophisticated TCP stack than Windows .. but because of punkbuster you wont get to see those improvements in latency because PB doesn't run in WINE.

[Hellraizer51]

But the guy here says it runs on PB servers... http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3438

[blazercist]

I don't know about battlefeild, but when I play HL2 based games on ubuntu using wine, my latency is always much lower than it was on windows. I don't think it yeilds any measurable result in game play but it is definately better latency. a few ms will generally go unnoticed. If you have a high speed connection and are joining servers that are relatively close you will generally have 20-30ms ping on windows, I get 5-10ms on linux, 10-20 ms will not be noticable by any human.

[Hellraizer51]

Ok then, thanks.