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Is it safe to say that this positively affected me? For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam
by SugarReflex 5mo ago
Is it safe to say that this positively affected me?
For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam. Minecraft ran beautifully and it is Java Edition 26.2.
I've had a harder hit and miss time with games on Steam.
- CyborgCabbage 5mo agoUnless you changed the setting it still uses the OpenGL backend by default
- QuaternionsBhop 5mo agoMinecraft (and Java) just runs great on Linux. I've personally experienced a 30% performance improvement from Windows.
- tosti 5mo agoI once tested the MS-Windows version on Wine on Linux vs MS-Windows on the same box. Both wine and native were faster on Linux, with the native Java version being the fastest (but not by much).
- throwaway314155 5mo agoAm I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...
- UnfitFootprint 5mo agoRaw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.
- mort96 5mo agoWhy? "Game ready drivers" are just a marketing thing to add game-specific performance hacks to new games, you don't expect "instability" just because nvidia doesn't do that anymore
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoLinux doesn't have "Game Ready" NVidia drivers, it just has NVidia drivers. No need for the marketing sauce when you can already see the sizzle.
- Doohickey-d 5mo agoI even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM. And yes, it was playable with IIRC around 20fps, with minimum settings and a performance-tweaking mod (Optifine?). I played it a lot, since that laptop was all I had. Even 0ad (the open source RTS game) was playable on that. That was maybe in 2013 or something like that, so the machine was "only" 10 years old.
- goodmythical 5mo agoI run modded minecraft at 1080p30 on CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1215U (8) @ 4.40 GHz GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated]
- anthk 5mo agoThe Radeon 9xxx series were a beast, I envied the 9700 one from my Geforce 2MX.
- imtringued 5mo agoYou mean even a 1060 Ti...
- everyone 5mo agoA 1080 TI is a relatively good card these days still. With the insane GPU drought and price hikes that there have been for literally years. Also MC is usually more CPU bound than GPU bound
- calgoo 5mo agoIm so annoyed i did not pick up a few of those cards last year when we where decommissioning a old video editing system at work. Could have picked up 4x1080ti for about $100 + shipping!
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoCan confirm that a GT1030 can run Minecraft on Linux extremely well, but maybe you want to hang back from the really high-end shaders.
- mghackerlady 5mo agoMinecraft Java is notorious for running like absolute dogpoop regardless of the hardware. Most people play with optifine or whatever the current optimisation mod is
- chainingsolid 5mo agoSodium is the current fps increase mod at the moment.
- mort96 5mo agoDid you have a bad experience with Minecraft on Linux before 26.2..?
- SugarReflex 5mo agoNo, this is my first time attempting to game on Linux full stop. Minecraft ran beautifully and this post may explain why - I should mention that I did enable the Vulkan setting in game (without knowing too much about it)