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I feel like the minority. The few times I’ve tried games on linux with decent hardware (eg radeon vii, rx580, rtx3060?) it was just trash. like straight up stut

by sharts 1y ago

I feel like the minority. The few times I’ve tried games on linux with decent hardware (eg radeon vii, rx580, rtx3060?) it was just trash. like straight up stuttering and nonsense. Maybe the only games I ever tried were in that 10% that aren’t supported or will never be supported (hitman, deus ex, etc). this led me down the rabbit hole for a while of gpu passthrough w/ vfio / sriov and virtual machines. those worked really well but also had their own problems. in the end i just bought a damned ps5 pro that rarely gets used. but at least it “just works” when I want it to. which is more than i can say for anything remotely related to using linux for games or even as a decent desktop. and yes, i tried your distro. the only one perhaps that wasn’t a headache was void.

sussmannbaka 1y ago
Did you try before or after Valves push for proton? Both of those are rated Platinum.
- gradientsrneat 1y ago
  If platinum-rated, should run fine with latest Proton, and maybe also some environment variables on launch to force using the dedicated GPU. Assuming the kernel and drivers are up-to-date.
jryb 1y ago
fwiw, upgrading from rx580 to rtx5070 solved all of my performance problems (both on windows and Linux) for a number of games.
zepearl 1y ago
To fix stuttering I had to disable compositing in the window manager (Xfce on Linux Mint, nVidia proprietary with AMD CPU).
- nmz 1y ago
  And there's also pulseaudio, which I had to run in some games with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%, other games you can only run in lutris, other games you can't even minimize it or it will mess up with the screen entirely.
dalmo3 1y ago
Same. Tried Pop OS and Cachy OS. Multiple devices. A tiny minority of my steam library even runs at all. Most games I click Play, nothing happens, 5 seconds later the play button is green again. The ones that run, stutter. Is it still possible if I persist? Probably, but so much for this "just works" marketing.
- drw85 1y ago
  I had the same problem. Installing vulkan libraries fixed that for me.

by sharts 1y ago

sussmannbaka 1y ago

Did you try before or after Valves push for proton? Both of those are rated Platinum.

gradientsrneat 1y ago
If platinum-rated, should run fine with latest Proton, and maybe also some environment variables on launch to force using the dedicated GPU. Assuming the kernel and drivers are up-to-date.

jryb 1y ago

fwiw, upgrading from rx580 to rtx5070 solved all of my performance problems (both on windows and Linux) for a number of games.

zepearl 1y ago

To fix stuttering I had to disable compositing in the window manager (Xfce on Linux Mint, nVidia proprietary with AMD CPU).

nmz 1y ago
And there's also pulseaudio, which I had to run in some games with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%, other games you can only run in lutris, other games you can't even minimize it or it will mess up with the screen entirely.

dalmo3 1y ago

Same. Tried Pop OS and Cachy OS. Multiple devices. A tiny minority of my steam library even runs at all. Most games I click Play, nothing happens, 5 seconds later the play button is green again. The ones that run, stutter. Is it still possible if I persist? Probably, but so much for this "just works" marketing.

drw85 1y ago
I had the same problem. Installing vulkan libraries fixed that for me.