i like my AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600. after I figured out it has a tiny tiny TINY hidden physical overclock switch they don't ever mention for some godforsaken reason (which is put "on" by default, also for some godforsaken reason) to turn off, it's the most stable graphics card i've ever used.
...i just recommend turning off the tiny evil hidden crash switch of doom.
amd in general is pretty chill on linux for a large portion of people.
I play on debian stable with steam. Its playable but debian is so far behind on packages that it makes no sense if you‘re sensitive to differences in fps or want peak performance.
Especially if you‘re using an nvidia card its definitely less fun on debian. I made good experiences with pop!os.
If you compare framerates I suggest windows though since linux users usually want a functional, privacy friendly OS which allows them to own their hardware and then comes peak game performance. If trash OS and privacy invasion is cool for you, go for it.
Not saying the performance on average isnt on par but the games are just not made for linux and its not „dead easy“ in every game yet.
Its probably more the things like when you happen to update in one of those times where the package manager has nvidia modules built for a different kernel version than what you just updated to. Sure you can use dkms but its often not the default, and not everyone can figure out what to do when they reboot and it hangs before reaching desktop. I know someone who decided they hated Linux in general after this.
Probably these days a new user wanting mainly Linux gaming with minimal tinkering could just use something like the bazzite nvidia image and never have any issues and if the open source driver ever reaches parity with the proprietary one it will probably just be swapped in and work in an update. Other distros as long as the maintainers aren’t dumbfucks it should also be fine. In the early days of nvidia on linux Ubuntu fucked me up the ass a few times before I learned about using dkms for nvidia drivers or dkms at all really.
I suggest avoiding the Vulkan build. It has been crashy in most BG3 releases, including the current one, I think.
For the dx11 build, you might get more help if you post your kernel and amdgpu firmware versions, GPU model, and screen shots showing the bad textures.
It’s also worth browsing the Proton comments to see if anyone else has encountered the same problems.
I will rather skip the Vulkan version then, thank you. I will update the post with version information but how do I learn the amdgpu firmware versions please?
how do I learn the amdgpu firmware versions please?
I don’t know Fedora, but I expect there’s a dnf command that would tell you what package owns the files in /lib/firmware/amdgpu . The version of that package would probably correspond to the upstream firmware version.
First one has a dot next to it, which means it’s the active version. Copy the value after “BaseCommit:” (in my case it is 2f8263a33190c4e1320233aebbdc8f337b0a6abcba371d4870ae43fba33aea62)
Run rpm-ostree db list <paste commit hash here> | grep amd. Example output (my command was rpm-ostree db list 2f8263a33190c4e1320233aebbdc8f337b0a6abcba371d4870ae43fba33aea62 | grep amd):
In my case, running the most recent update on Fedora Atomic KDE, it looks like I’m running version 20240410-1 of amd-gpu-firmware. Yours may vary depending on what update you’re on.
I ran it (bg3.exe) through the latest vanilla proton (9.0.1 I think?) earlier today and it had no issues. I used the experimental version for character creation and it had some fucked up textures (color banding mostly), but after switching it ran perfectly in the stable version. I’m running thru steam on a nvidia gpu, so hopefully on amd you’ll be fine if you try that.
GloriousEggroll, the person who makes ProtonGE, also makes an entire Fedora-based distro called Nobara. it has a lot of gaming-focused changes and comes with a utility which lets you install all sorts of different versions of Proton - both vanilla and GE modded.
obviously switching distros is a big deal but like worst case scenario you could give that a try?
I haven't tried Baldur's gate but to get the lord of the rings bfme2 to run I set the runner to wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 and it started working in Lutris.
I also tested bottles before I moved to Lutris and there should be runner settings for graphics to be translated to Vulkan from directx.
I am using Linux Mint though which is debian based so idk if you have to do things different for wine in fedora.
Oh yes, there are! They are all nicely organized, with short description using the Gnome UI language. I prefer Bottles so much to the other launchers but I could get some games to run in the past only using Lutris with its install script database…
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