it was a problem for me too previously, but I don’t think it is anymore, I haven’t had it since glorious eggroll updated his wine build a few months back, and I didn’t get it using proton today in Steam.
When? I think most people have the view of “NVIDIA were great guys while they fucked everyone else, but now they’ve fucked me”.
NVIDIA’s proprietary driver has always been the best performant in Linux, and still seems to be, however it’s proprietary and that means you’re dependant on them for support, so for example Wayland is not supported and you’re fucked with nothing to do.
I know what Google says, but I tried it a few months ago and nothing worked properly, I just assumed the version was still beta. But it could be because I’m using a laptop and Optimus cards have always been sort of a hit or miss with features on NVIDIA.
I had no problems on Nobara, also running wayland and have no problems on arch.
For nvidia i have nvidia, nvidia-utils and nvidia-settings packages, DRM KMS and nvidia “experimental” settings for suspend, hibernate and preserve memory enabled.
For KDE i have plasma-meta and plasma-wayland-session.
HW is Two mixed refreshrate monitors (144 and 60Hz) on 1080p, GTX1660 and ryzen 5 3600.
FWIW I’ve recently mograted to wayland on a 3060ti without any real issues. I’m running hyprland. There were some minor quirks to resolve during the initial migration, all were well documented in the install guide and trivial to resolve.
I love it. It is the best purchase decision I made in years. I am lazy - I prefer to play on Steam Deck than on my gaming laptop.
However, yesterday I tried to play Remnant 2 on Steam Deck. I was not expecting fireworks, but at least decent 30fps. IMO Game is unplayable on SD. Barely reaches 30fps. Fan spins like crazy. It works great on my laptop.
This has been the exact same story for decades. Linux is great for certain professional endeavours/for work, but it doesn’t really have the ecosystem for gaming that exists on Windows. You can run Linux from inside Windows if you just need a few applications. But sadly, beyond a few publishers who make their games Linux compatible, if you want to game without hassle then Windows is your best bet.
I hate the input delay on cloud gaming. It’s just not something wish to deal with in action games. I used it on my phone to play persona but killer instinct on Streaming is suffering.
It’s tolerable on a lot of games but anything that requires fast responses can feel pretty rough at times. Anything more chill or turn based runs just fine though!
That’s true, but even streaming locally from my series x to stream Deck really degrades the image quality and introduces input delay (which of course could also be caused by my network idk) so I’m not too keen on streaming games
Are you on Wayland or X11? And have you tried switching it?
I also totally get your point and agree. I started using Fedora this year as well and especially Wayland is driving me nuts but X11 isn’t a great alternative either, at least on a notebook. For example: you lose a lot of useful touchpad features, if you go back to X11.
For me the biggest issue with X is that it can’t do per-display scaling, which makes it pretty annoying to use with one 4k and one 1080p display.
The only workaround that I’ve found so far that sorta works is just scaling everything up to where it looks good on the biggest screen, and then scaling the other screens down using xrandr.
Then again the only reason I haven’t committed to Wayland is because the issues I’ve had there have been much worse.
Eh… just lower your expectations and dive in. Not like theres any “Wowzers AAA+” game to play nowadays. If anything, its a great way to exercise your braincells and “the future you” will definitely appreciate what you’ve done today.
My only issue with Proton are crash and rendering issues related to ray tracing on certain games (probably Nvidia’s fault). Also, Halo master chief collection crash after a few minutes gameplay, but that’s might have something to do with the game being made by Microsoft. Other than that, it’s perfect. Even DLSS is working fine too.
I use Proton (Linux) for games where my hardware is overkill or my FPS is good enough.
But in games where the hardware is maxed and the FPS is below my preference. I use windows because there is still sometimes like a 10%-20% loss by running windows stuff from Linux.
In Steam Deck could be different because it’s more optimised maybe. There are exceptions that run better on Linux I understand (example: same FPS but less stuttering).
Anyone know where the Linux version is? Steam only has Windows and Mac OS versions. GOG only has a Windows version.
I’m assuming there is a Linux version, because this has been posted on old.lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming . If that is incorrect, I can’t understand why it would be posted here.
There is no linux version. Steam/Valve has been updating their proton versions to work with BG3. I would recommend using their ‘proton experimental.’ If you buy from GOG, you can use Lutris, they have a runner that should install everything needed to run BG3, and it also lists some tweaks to make.
it works in switch mode which i think it’s y+start but the a/b x/y are reversed and i have a hard time getting used to. i’ve lost save data among other things that way i’m using it out of necessity but i really prefer to get the x-input mode working which is the one giving the most problem
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