When ever I have issues with running steam games on linux, I use the “force compatibility” option, and choose the latest glorious-eggroll version of proton.
I’ve gotten lazy in my older age, so I use protonup-qt to manage my versions of ge-proton. Bonus: This tool can also manage ge-proton versions for lutris, so it’s got that going for it, which is nice.
If this low hanging fruit doesn’t do it, then I’ll checkout protondb to see if anyone else has figured out workarounds for various issues. That link shows some chatter around the latest update, with a couple launch options to try.
I guess mileage might differ. I installed Tumbleweed and then the Nvidia drivers following the wiki instructions. Everything is going great. Running a 3060 with Wayland+Plasma on a 360Hz screen and gaming through Steam. I love Tumbleweed.
An alternative if just for benchmarking is EndeavourOS, you can choose proprietary Nvidia drivers as a boot option in the installer and then I believe it'll be installed with them without further ado. Downside is if you use it long term you have to read Arch News before updates to spot breaking/incompatible changes and be knowledagable of things like pacnew/pacsave files, etc.
Nah, I have same issues. My hardware is 2 years old. I use manjaro/Ubuntu LTS and Non-LTS/PopOS/LinuxMint/Zorin/LMDE/Nobara and endeavour OS and it’s freezing quite often and I have to go back to Windows atm. I think Nvidia is main culprit here. If I move to Full AMD. I might try Linux again
Protondb.com is very helpful when a game doesnt run. I forget where I found info but like a good 10% of steam games dont run using Proton, no matter what you try. And a good 70+% of games work out of the box or with easy, common tweaks. We have some other tools available like Winetricks, Lutris, and if all else fails VM with GPU Passthru.
windows can have a similar troubleshooting workflow, dependent on Compatibility Mode for older games, and using GOG.com repacks to make things easier.
Linux has gotten a lot better with playing windows games. My issue is that I have one peice of software I want to use: Serato DJ Pro - and due to how that software works with hardware and real-time audio, I haven’t ever been able to get it to run on Linux. Mixxx is a thing, but it doesn’t have the features I use in Serato.
Would really love to drop windows for the one software I need it for.
There was one game (ECHO) where I had weird performance issue on Windows but not on Garuda. The game is not CPU bound i think. If someone has an explanation as to why this is happening, don’t hesitate to tell me : piped.video/watch?v=ODL-jpZgy_M
Any scheduler optimisation ? Cryotool ? Feral Gamemode ? Linux has its own bunch of optimisation tools.
But I’d still doubt a 100% difference, unless you played a game with known problems under Proton. For my own experience after almost a year playing on Linux I gained between 5% and 20%, depending on the game.
That’s the other issue. “Depending on the game” 60% of all titles doesnt work on Linux and the rest 40% works badly. There is about a handful of games that could perform better than windows but with windows everything works. I am not trying to defend windows, fuck Microsoft. I just want you guys to stop with this delusion that linux is superior. In most ways it is but in the way thag counts the most, windows is still superior.
Your doubts re completely unfounded. Linux was set up in 5 mins, I just installed OpenSUSE, installed Steam and ran the games, since the AMD/Intel drivers are included in the kernel.
On Windows I had to set up for like 45 mins until the installation and all the updates and drivers were done.
Windows is closed source so it has to do extra stuff to hide it’s internal behavior. Linux isn’t. This allows better drivers in Linux. This means in some cases emulating windows games on Linux is literally faster. You don’t have to emulate the entire system, only the parts you need to run the game on your computer.
I was guessing but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work And yes I know Debain is easy nowadays but regardless I will try Debain or even better MX Linux and Linux mint Debain edition
Delving into the realm of non-rolling distros, yes MX is quite good (sits on top of Debian). I’ve used the latest version on a laptop seeing almost daily use for 1.5 years or so and zero issues. And thread originator is correct, Debian is the gold standard for a stable linux experience.
I’d say Tumbleweed is what you’re looking for. They have some sort of automated testing process (OpenQA, I think) and are far more stable than Arch, while oftentimes having newer versions of packages before Arch.
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