I've never really thought about whether the game looks the same using its Windows vs Linux renderer. I installed HL2 to check out the anniversary update and decided to try the Windows renderer on Proton. Would you look at this difference... Linux is the top one, Windows is the bottom:
Is this is a thing? Have you tried other games and seen the Windows version looking better?
They're not rendering the same source textures. The posters on the wall are completely different.
Is it the same copy of the game on different executables, or are these different editions?
The posters in the Linux version are also in the windows version. The windows version has extra layers of posters on top, the Linux version just has that base layer.
Or that's how it looks to me at least.
Looks like the Z-order is flipped between the two versions
Ha, yeah.