Running software designed and compiled only for XYZ system is always going to incur overhead when translating or emulating to ABC system.

Game authors and publishers who only build for Windows are giving users a big middle finger and essentially saying “You must suffer through Windows in order to enjoy our product hassle-free lol”.

What worked for me (which may or may not work for others) was to wean myself away, at first with only playing games that were built natively for linux.

Then moving the line in the sand to only DRM-free native linux builds.

Then advancing to only open source games.

These days, I just don’t even play games and I find that it really frees up what kinds of things I want to do on my computers, such as daily driving exotic CPU architectures (and also I have so much more free time for actual meaningful pursuits like learning new skills).