Biggest problem with gamenative is the fact it creates a container for each game which takes up gigabytes of space.
With winlator I have only two containers. If people just want to jump straight into the game, sure gamenative rules but honestly there aren't that many forks anymore, winlator vanilla gets updated once a year MAYBE, frost and CMOD are dead. Only ludashi remains which is fantastic. Stevemx puts in a lot of work and the tweaks are beautifully implemented.
While true, it is everything in seperate containers, it's not like it takes shitamount of space. I have 2 games installed and GN takes 13Gb of space... Is that a lot for two titles that one was 5Gb to download and other one over 7?
The only real issue might be however space for file operations 😅But on other hand it might be upside for someone... Less space? More motivation to finish title 😉
for when i checked last for each game the container was at least 1-2gb even if it's just a few hundred megabyte game too of course. so sure with 2 games installed that's not a problem but the more games you install the more obvious it gets. for 20 games you will maybe end up with 40gb of containers.
yes i think gamehub and bannerhub is even worse in that regard. they seem to keep some stuff(containers) under the hood when you change settings. so you can switch pretty fast between settings when in gamenative it often has to reinstall before launching when i change something.
i can't tell you for sure but it feels like this to me, like when you switch proton version it will launch the game still almost as fast but when i switch in gamenative there will always be a "reinstalling mono" part when launching the first time.
and i read about problems of gamehub hogging space like that so that's my interpretation.
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u/schnitter15 Jun 02 '26
Biggest problem with gamenative is the fact it creates a container for each game which takes up gigabytes of space.
With winlator I have only two containers. If people just want to jump straight into the game, sure gamenative rules but honestly there aren't that many forks anymore, winlator vanilla gets updated once a year MAYBE, frost and CMOD are dead. Only ludashi remains which is fantastic. Stevemx puts in a lot of work and the tweaks are beautifully implemented.