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hiyaaaaa23 , in Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate

Performance may be dog slow but it’s one step closer to mass adoption

pelotron , in Hearts of Iron 4 on Wayland doesn't work
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

What was the behavior when you tried to launch it?

sambeastie , in Multi-vendor RGB controller app OpenRGB v0.9 is out now

Hoping the bug with Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro is fixed so it doesn’t take up a huge amount of CPU resources to run effects. I had a really cool set of effects going that I just couldn’t use because of this.

Grass , in Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate

Lol so it will ‘work’ on cards that can’t even handle it?

Voytrekk OP ,
@Voytrekk@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, you will be able to emulate it with older cards. Not recommended, but it is still something you can do in Windows.

krnl386 , in Is there a way to improve cpu performance with wine/proton?
@krnl386@lemmy.ca avatar

Do you get better numbers with Windows on the same PC?

Waffelson OP ,

Yes, 500 points more

krnl386 ,
@krnl386@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m curious if this is caused by the fact that wine/proton is an API emulation layer. Whatever API calls this app uses for benchmarking may be less efficient, or maybe emulated, rather than talking directly to hardware. It should also be noted that these benchmark numbers are probably not indicative of actual game performance, as games likely use different API calls that are well or better optimized.

Max_P , in Is there a way to improve cpu performance with wine/proton?
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

For a CPU benchmark like this, something is definitely weird because wine shouldn’t be translating anything. I wonder if the benchmark might be doing weird things with the Windows API.

That sounds like you’re hitting an edge case and it might not be representative of the actual performance you can expect out of Wine.

Have you tried other benchmarks?

Waffelson OP ,

No

I’m thinking of testing Cinebench

Are there any other tests I could check?

infeeeee ,

Find something which has native linux version as well, e.g. passmark performance test.

Run on win, linux and win version in wine. Comparing the 3 results you can figure out if wine is the problem, or some settings in linux if wine and linux results are similar

INeedMana ,
@INeedMana@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a test I’d like to see the results of

Waffelson OP ,

I check Cinebench and Passmark

Cinebench

Wine - 4112 points

Windows - 3874 points

Passmark

Wine - 7053 points

Windows - 6864 points

Linux - 7145 points

It looks like the problem is in cpu-z and not in wine or linux

Grass ,

Why is windows slacking so much there? Or is lower better on these ones?

GrappleHat ,
@GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s not unusual to see better performance on Wine compared to native Windows. Wine is a compatibility layer, not an emulator. So there’s not a lot of overhead. Additionally, vanilla Windows has a lot of background bloat consuming resources.

Internet searches show many instances of people reporting higher FPS in games on Wine vs vanilla Windows (on the same machine).

Grass ,

That’s actually excellent. I knew that ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ from their web page but I didn’t know I could expect better performance in anything running with it.

circuitfarmer , in Is there a way to improve cpu performance with wine/proton?
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Yeah this is weird. CPU instructions aren’t being translated by Wine/Proton, as I understand it. It’s not emulation.

I suspect there’s something in the reporting which is actually giving you false figures.

cakesale , in Hearts of Iron 4 on Wayland doesn't work

You don’t need wine installed for Proton to work. Make sure you have the correct Vulkan drivers installed.

ComeHereOrIHookYou , in Subjectively, how are modern Intel UHD or Iris Xe Graphics for mild gaming on an Ubuntu based distro?

I had a chance to use UHD 630 for mild Linux gaming for a couple of months 5 years ago. So far it was good. Was able to Minecraft (No shaders though) with decent fps and a couple of 3d browser games such as Forward Assault (Some Counter strike like game), Tetr.io and Bemuse.

For Steam games… it was able to play 2d games great. Majority of newly released 3d games (Indie, triple A is out of the question) that time, the iGPU struggleds however.

Well I only wanted to play Skyrim at 1080p and it was able to deliver.

Also was able to play Dota and Counter Strike Global Offensive too.

I don’t think the newer intel iGPUs are any better, I mean it can play 3d games fine but usually performs OK on games a generation behind or older.

shadedmagus , in What’s the best distro for gaming on linux? Any tips and tricks?
@shadedmagus@lemmy.world avatar

I guess it depends on what your use case might be. I have heard that Manjaro is decent for a desktop Arch experience, but I have yet to try it.

My use case recently was for a living-room PC that works like a console version of the Steam Deck. For that purpose, ChimeraOS works really well. It’s an Arch-based distro that uses the Steam Deck controller-first interface and so far is handling almost everything I’ve thrown at it. It even has a remote admin app where you can install games from GOG or Epic (although GOG support only installs the base game at the moment, no DLC or updates) or upload console ROMs for emulation.

I would say if you go this route, get a PS4/PS5 controller. The touch space is recognized as a mouse, which removes the need to attach a mouse for those moments when you need to get into the desktop (such as formatting a secondary drive for use in Steam).

sosodev , in Hearts of Iron 4 on Wayland doesn't work

For me it seems like games regularly fail to launch on Wayland but are fine with X. Did you try Gamescope?

sosodev , in My Experience Switching From NVIDIA To AMD

Same experience here. I recently made the switch and love how so many regular annoyances disappeared.

themoonisacheese , in Mixed refresh rates question
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have that stack except in KDE and I have had no issues.

phx ,

Yeah, already a KDE user I’ve got a 4k@120 and a 4@60 and never noticed any issues in Linux.

Ironically, where I do often see issues is in Windows when gaming with a headset (headset is fine, monitor shows extensive tearing, same rig).

darcmage , in Mixed refresh rates question

When I was on X11 (kde), my 144hz monitor would frequently feel like it was operating at 60hz but I could never figure out what the cause was. I used to turn off my 60hz monitor before gaming as a workaround. I quickly switched to wayland and haven’t had to deal with it since.

Max_P ,
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

I have a 144Hz between a 60 Hz and a 75 Hz monitor.

It’s not perfect, but does the job decently. In your ~/.profile:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">export </span><span style="color:#323232;">KWIN_X11_REFRESH_RATE</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">144000
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">export </span><span style="color:#323232;">KWIN_X11_NO_SYNC_TO_VBLANK</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">1
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">export </span><span style="color:#323232;">KWIN_X11_FORCE_SOFTWARE_VSYNC</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">1
</span>

If you enable TearFree, it makes the lack of proper vsync less noticeable and fixes the tearing caused by software vsync.

OP’s probably SoL for Gnome though, because Gnome.

Scraft161 , in Mixed refresh rates question
@Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

If you don’t have to put up with Nvidia and there’s nothing tying you to X11 I recommend making the jump to Wayland, a lot of these sorts of issues have been solved over there

sosodev OP ,

I’ve tried wayland but it seems like games often don’t work :(

dj3hac ,

I haven’t had any problems with gaming in Wayland. Perhaps you haven’t configured it properly, especially if it wasn’t default installed on your system.

priapus ,

What DE and distro did you try Wayland with? All games should work as they did on X11.

sosodev OP ,

Gnome and Pop OS. I only briefly tried Wayland but multiple games just failed to launch or would launch and then crash not launch again.

zbecker ,
@zbecker@mastodon.zbecker.cc avatar

@sosodev @priapus

You might want to try it again, I haven't had any issues really and I am using hyprland these days.

priapus ,

I would highly recommend trying again and sharing logs if you continue to have problems. People on here or the PopOS forums should be able to help. Wayland on AMD should function just as well as X11, and I would expect PopOS to ship all the necessary dependencies.

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