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
Dropping by to throw some more praise onto the pile for Nobara Linux - it's my current distro and I have an AMD RX 6700 as well. All the games in my Steam library work great, including Baldur's Gate 3 (no tweaks necessary other than enabling the latest GE-Proton version). Unfortunately I haven't played any of the games you listed; my preferences lean mostly towards RPGs like Elden Ring, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Valheim (with mods!), Enderal and so on.
Not the one you have been asking, but you can eigher install Lutris, and then install GW2 from there, or download it on Steam. Those are 2 fairly straightforward ways. If you have an ArenaNet account (rather than an account binded to Steam), but still want to use Steam as your launcher - just write “-provider Portal” in launch options.
Can you list the issues because I don’t have problems with these titles on linux. Maybe fedora issues, they are notorious for not fixing issues. That’s why nobara was born
Are you using the Steam version or the Rockstar version? Because the former should just work OOTB (unless something has changed recently). The latter can be a pain to get working.
I expected Civilization VI to run fine, and… it did. although anti-aliasing decided not to work.
It has a native version and sometimes they are missing features/performance. Try forcing Proton.
while Win 11 is basically “don’t worry, it’ll run!”
That hasn’t been my experience at all, even with gaming. But YMMV.
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.
Fedora 38 specifically is terrible for gaming. Google and you’ll find out how bad. Ubuntu and derivatives still seem to be the best supported for most gaming applications, especially Steam.
I think it mostly centers around the specific implementation choices the Fedora maintainers made with regard to libraries and kernel modules. Nvidia drivers causing lots of issues, people complain about performance degradation after kernel patches…etc. Reddit is full of users complaints, and if you dig in here, you’ll see lots of posts asking for help with issues mention F38.
Nobara is gaming centric, so no. Glorius Eggroll codes on a version of Proton and is the developer of Nobara. However, when I gave it a go I found it to be a bit buggy. YMMV though. (Nobara I mean. His version of Proton is amazing.)
I found Nobara ran pretty well but maybe 5 % of my library wouldn’t work on Nobara but runs on Debian and arch based distros as well as solus on the same hardware.
I exclusively play Steam games on my Ubuntu machine because I don’t have to do anything, it just works for me (only had to set up proton once on Steam and I was done forever).
There are sim games that I just boot into Windows to play them.
The boot up time of programs and privacy is worth it in my mind.
Even with Steam there can still be some strange issues. For example, Far Cry 4 will crash with no error messages if it can see more than 31 logical CPU cores. You have to use the WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY environmental variable to limit it to less cores. Apparently, windows has been programmed to limit the number of CPU cores in certain games to work around bugs that the game developers should have fixed instead. I guess Proton should start doing that too since high core count CPUs are becoming more common.
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.
I have a very similar system to you (Fedora 38 + AMD 5800X3D + AMD 6900 XT) as my daily driver and out of the games you listed I can only tell you that Red Dead Redemption 2 worked out of the box with no tinkering.
One thing that comes to mind, maybe it’s using the integrated GPU of your 4600G?
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