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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Anyone know if CP2077 runs better on Linux than Windows?

By much? With HDR?

Sorry for the drive by comment, but this is like the one game my 3090 can’t quite handle to my satisfaction. I've thoroughly disabled the thing from rendering in Linux and don’t want to undo all that… But if I could get like another 10% over Windows, that would be incredible. Even 5% would be awesome.

[-] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Hey there! Recently downloaded Cyberpunk again to test my graphics card out.

openSUSE Tumbleweed, a 144hz 1080p ultrawide monitor (21:9), i9-10850K, nvidia 5080, raytracing and all settings on ultra, no DLSS fake frames only DLAA

I was getting from 75-120 (120 could be lower or higher as I can’t get to my computer right now) depending on what was on screen. In the city with lots of neon and ads going while driving around? 75-80 fps

Inside a building or not near any of the reflective causing lights? 90-120

I’m pretty sure my CPU is bottlenecking me for the most part, but it has never sweated on anything I threw at it, so didn’t see the need to upgrade just yet.

Hopefully that helps you out a little! I’ve got a lot of games I can report back on too, if needed! :)

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[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Anyone have good experiences with the NVIDIA 50 series on Linux? I've tried a bunch different flavors over the years and I'm fairly distro agnostic as long as it doesn't get too esoteric.

Also weird question does anyone know if Single Player Tarkov with Project Fika works on Linux? I think it should

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[-] commander@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It'll be a slow grind. I view. Linux today similar to Macs in like 2003. Low single digit market share but increasing adoption. What doesn't match is the lack of a huge company pushing out flagship advertised laptops/desktops with them that tie in to a very popular device like iPods. But today there's so many more computers being used that a low single digit market share today is probably way more people than Macs back in 2003. And Linux gaming today is better than gaming on MacOS has ever been. Today MacOS is like 15%

[-] Addv4@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Honestly, I kinda suspect the tariffs are speeding this up. I recently upgraded my desktop due to the suspicion that prices are gonna go bonkers shortly and since I was basically rebuilding it anyway, I went ahead and switched my last windows PC to Linux. Been a lot smoother than I had suspected, highly recommended.

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[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So Linux bumps up 2 percentage points due to steam decks and all the linuxbois are taking a victory lap

Windows lives in your head rent free

You're worse than vegans, at least vegans have a moral position.

Edit: screenshotting this for when the mods ban me again

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[-] hex@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago
[-] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

What’s the best Linux distro to play games? Im currently on Ubuntu 22.04 and won’t leave it as my main but I have a AMD TR 1950 with a GTX 1080 TI will to play some final fantasy.

[-] offspec@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

If you just want an experience as straight forward as the steam deck I have heard that the move is to just run Bazzite.

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

I left Debian for Arch recently and let me tell you, you immediately feel the difference with running the latest drivers for your machine. The bleeding edge drivers have upped my frames per second significantly in videos games compared to sticking with stable releases on Debian (and Ubuntu).

With the built-in archinstall script making Arch so easy to get going, I’d only reach for anything else if I really needed the stability.

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

I'm doing my part! Moving to a new country in a few days, part of the prep for that was to ditch my Windows desktop and I've been setting up a Linux laptop. Arch with KDE Plasma is so far the most enjoyable experience I've had with an OS

I've tried at various times to switch to Linux in the past. I'm enough of a turbo nerd you'd think it would have been easy for me but it was never quite there for one reason or another. This latest attempt though hot damn it's all smooth sailing. I've even converted one of my friends to Mint and making progress convincing people who don't want to use Windows 11 to just make the switch

[-] dil@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Beware some issues if your hardware isnt popular, I have freezing on all kernels past 6.136-2, so I'm stuck there. (test them all every update, no matter what I get hella random freezing requiring a power button restart) It is very stable and fast tho, kinda scary thinking the bug never gets fixed tho, still new to Linux and assuming it's bad to not update the kernel longgerm.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I had that issue last time I switched to Linux. Thankfully eventually it went away. It should help to distro hop to a more bleeding edge distro. Fedora specifically gets system updates every night through Discover.

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[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Okay, I finally installed a new SSD yesterday so I could dual boot and put CachyOS on it. Played a few games and it worked surprisingly well.

But it did take quite a bit more doing than installing Windows. The USB drive wouldn't boot when made with Rufus and I don't quite get how to manage the games installed in Proton (like where is their virtual C: drive?).

I plan on migrating more of my stuff onto Linux in the coming days and will see if it can't replace Windows eventually for me.

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[-] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

This is good. This data will eventually help influence game developers to support Linux. It won't happen over night, but we this trend continues, it'll eventually start getting some attention.

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