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[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago

Gaming on Linux is superior, on a lot of games! I dual booted and ran benchmarks on Windows 11 and Fedora, same hardware. Ran nothing but the OS and Steam in the background, (gaming mode on and off), oddly found better performance with gaming mode off, then tried the same thing with Fedora. 5-10% higher framerates in Fedora running Proton.

Tried the same thing with synched Firefox tabs, half a dozen open tabs, telegram and discord running. Fedora sometimes hit 15% higher framerates.

[-] its_kim_love 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I've been playing Elden Ring with no crashes since switching to Mint.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I have a Ryzen CPU with onboard graphics and then an Nvidia 3060ti mobile. Rpmfusion drivers in Linux and Nvidia experience in Windows.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Interesting!

Theoretically, that (Nvidia graphics + IGP display out) is the worst case scenario for Linux.

I used to get worse performance on my 3090, but it’s been awhile. I will have to try again.

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I've been gaming almost exclusively in Linux since roughly start of COVID. It's come a long way. I am this close to VR on Fedora, but it's still not quite working.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Out of curiosity, what games do you see any gains in, and at approximately what settings?

And if I come across as skeptical, that’s not my intent at all. I’m interested!

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

For me, the most noticeable gain was in Monster Hunter World, but it was what I ran the tests on. I also played a lot of Earth Defense Force 5 and Genshin Impact. GI was always finnicky to get running. MHW did take longer to launch, and the new Monster Hunter Wild takes obnoxiously long to launch on first run after an update.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That’s particularly interesting.

MH is notorious for being unoptimized, right? Maybe DXVK and the sane linux scheduling is working wonders there.

I use DXVK in Windows, on rare occasions, and the gains can be pretty dramatic in (for instance) janky DX9 games.

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