I’m having a good time even on an 11th gen mobile Intel processor with its iGPU. For more demanding games I use FSR to get much more bang for buck from the GPU, on Linux it’s pretty easy to activate in almost any game. On a side note, Waydroid (with libhoudini) also has excellent performance on this setup.
Baha i have the particular experience of an AMD card that is a weird age, apparently. I still have an old R9 390 which defaults to using the older-compatibility “radeon” drivers instead of the “amdgpu” drivers. Turns out this card doesn’t work terribly well with those old drivers, and can’t even play videos.
Took me a while to figure out what was wrong, testing out a fresh linux mint install to try and dip my toes in ;p
That said, i still would prefer this over the proprietary drivers and difficulty with that~
Finally found the options but what make it work was disabling them. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it run at a playable frame rate. Funny enough other games works flawlessly with my potato setup
Does it have to be a mini-PC like that? If you can put together a PC (or know someone who'll do it for free/cheap) you can get a significantly better midi-tower PC for less money.
Could cut that price down even more picking up some used parts locally, but thats quickly putting time into the equation, and money might be more well spent by Op getting something complete in a box vs time spent on all this.
I have an XPS 13 with the i7 1165G7 and Xe graphics are fine for light stuff like Minecraft (even with shaders) or indie titles from the last 10 years. He won’t be able to push very high framerates or resolutions, but at 1080p with low/medium graphics, it should be workable.
Yea, he has a 1080P monitor and we use sodium; he gets entity lag at times and if he uses the Bobby mod to render a 64-chunk radius his client crashes, but I think he won’t notice. In general, it’ll be a huge improvement.
I had a similar experience switching from my GTX 1070 to a 6700XT last year. Things had improved significantly over the years I used the 1070 but the experience has been overall much more seamless after switching
Oof, sorry to be the deliverer of bad news. In another thread someone suggested to reach out to the developers and ask them about the future of Linux. I couldnt really find any place to reach out though, so if you have already bought the game, you could check whether the credits might mention contact details. Having already bought the game is obviously a better foot to stand on as well, so that might help the argument.
What desktop environment or wm are you using? Are you using a login manager or launching your session from tty?
I’ve had similar issues in the past but in my case I had to configure things so that when I log in it sets environment variables correctly and have my sway config start up xdg-desktop-portal correctly.
I’ve also had situations where specifically xdg-desktop-portal-gtk was causing problems so id uninstall that while keeping the other xdg-desktop-portal-* packages, so it could be one of those causing it
Some annoyances exist though, like trying to use hardware en(!)coding while retaining the mesa drivers for gaming. HW Enc. is only available with the proprietary amdgpu-pro drivers, which are no good for gaming. You can work around that by using distrobox to setup an arch container on any distro and then using the AUR to install the proprietary drivers and obs in that container. That way, the rest of the system still runs on mesa, but obs loads with hardware encoding support. You can then export obs using distrobox-export -app obs-studio to make it available on the rest of your system like any other app. On nvidia, you install the proprietary drivers anyway, so obs will let you encode on hardware right away.
Hmm, I’ve just tried a fresh install of Manjaro and it’s exhibiting the same problems as Pop. It could be something to do with my setup? Or maybe there’s some other Linux fuckery going on? It’s strange though, since Windows works just fine.
What kind of problems are you seeing? The only issue I had was stuttering but I fixed that with corectrl. I have an AMD GPU and running Wayland if that helps.
When launching SteamVR my headset turns on but all I see is a grey screen. In the left eye there’s a very glitchy image of my desktop that flickers rapidly. Disabling asynchronous reprojection fixes the flickering desktop but the view is still completely grey.
Also, my base stations don’t wake up when launching SteamVR. Trying to scan for them results in it find them but being unable to connect (with an unhelpful error message that says “failed to connect” or something along those lines). I assume the lack of base station connectivity is causing the grey screen in the headset, but I’m not sure how to get them to connect.
I’ve tried using lh.py to get them to wake up, but there’s some Bluetooth error that happens that I haven’t figured out yet: bluepy.btle.BTLEManagementError: Failed to execute management command ‘le on’ (code: 17, error: Invalid Index). I read somewhere that this might be because the Index’s Bluetooth chip doesn’t work on Linux and that I may have to buy a separate Bluetooth adapter :/
I’ve followed the Bluetooth instructions but now SteamVR crashes on launch.
I get a 109 error on the 1.14 Linux branch (no change from before).
On the beta branch it crashes as soon as I launch it (nothing specific, just a message saying SteamVR is disabled because it crashed and a Retry button). Upon retrying my entire system froze and I had to hard reset. Upon rebooting and trying again it broke the window manager so now I have no window chromes (if that’s what you call them on Linux? the top bar and title and min/max/close buttons) so I had to reboot again.
On the stable branch it seems to now work but there’s a very noticeable delay in my head movements, which is very nauseating. Disabling asynchronous reprojection seemed to slightly improve this, but it’s still noticeable.
If I can’t find a fix for that, it seems like Linux VR is still a pipe dream for me. But in any case, thanks for your help so far!
Regarding the lag, to fix that I had to make sure the gpu was using it’s full capacity which I managed to do by using the Corectrl app to add a SteamVR profile and setting it to max. Without it I would see the same issue where it didn’t move fast enough with my head movement.
It seems CoreCtrl doesn’t support Nvidia GPUs, which is unfortunate. I did also attempt to set PowerMizer mode to Maximum Performance in nvidia-settings but that didn’t help. I suppose I’ll need an AMD card to have a good Linux VR experience?
I was having similar problems on a fresh arch install with multiple apps taking upwards of 15 seconds to launch, and the “fix” ended up being to uninstall one or more of the “portal” packages (there are several with names like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk). gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/…/74 and bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285334 for more info.
Could be completely unrelated, but it might be worth a try.
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