Who needs a video tutorial for “hit the play button in Steam”?
How to get performance boosts through the newest drivers. How to play games and streaming them on discord without tanking the framerate. How to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. Which kernel to use, etc.
There are so many Nuances to gaming on Linux, so there’s definitely a market for it. Not seen this video yet though, could be just surface level stuff.
How to get performance boosts through the newest drivers
aka. How 2 install updates
Which kernel to use
The default one
Its not that hard if you RTFM. And if you dont, you shouldnt use linux in the first place
That’s a bit reductive, don’t you think?
The beauty of Linux is its wonderful ability to be customized. Maybe Xanmod is a good kernel for you if you play games?
Maybe if you use a desktop environment with Wayland, you’ll have less issues with screen sharing in Discord.
It’s always nice to hear what other people’s experiences are. Depending on the distro, updating drivers can be a bit trickier than noobs might expect since “Driver manager” might not actually have the newest drivers, etc.
Telling people to RTFM is all well and good, but why not share the stuff you’ve learned with others who are just getting started?
You are talking about an imaginary Audience
The normal just switched from win guy who looks up youtube videos about how to game on linux knows and cares less about linux than my guinea pig (tho, I think she knows more about linux than me after listening to me try to install gentoo for a week straight, so idk). Telling them to use x kernel, y DE with z Kernel Flags with a changed vim.conf just makes it look like its a hassle to use Linux. If someone wants to learn about linux and go into such details, they will
- Not look up a frickin youtube video since they are the worst place to learn about anything which changes every month or so
- Look up something more akin to „Which linux kernel is best for gaming“
So by making it look like these are basic steps in order to get a game running is counterproductive if only meant well
Its like if you would ask me how to drive a car, and I would go on a 2 hour tangent about synchronising the time the spark plugs fire and replacing the carburator for a more costum design so it sucks out the condensation out of the pipes after shutting off, therefore making corrosion less likely.
Even tho I could have just as well told you to fill up the gas tank at a station and turn the keys, which would have brought me sufficient results anyway
The Linux community had never once been able to grasp the concept of someone using Linux and not giving a single flying fuck about Linux.
People are here cause they hate windows, not cause they like Linux. Describes a LOT of gamers that are coming over right now.
Yet people keep pointing them at distros that ARNT something like cachy.
Valve, targets a arch based kde distro. THAT is what you should be giving gamers. That’s going to have the least issues, the best support, is what most gaming communities make their tools, tutorials and guides around.
Do not give them gnome, stop suggesting mint or pop os. Great distros, but for people that want to use Linux. Not gamers wanting to game.
Gaming basically mandates that you are on very up to date systems if you want properly supported anything. It’s like that in windows it’s no different on Linux. You can be on a out of date system and have things works but it only creates more and more possible problems.
The fact I see people in this thread talking about proton 9 beta when 10 is out SCREAMS that the problem is almost entirely because they are on a distro that’s using a older kernel and out of date packages.
This
You dont expect every car owner to know everything about it, so dont place the same standard for Linux
Seither that, or gatekeep Linux The right way
Aye, alright fair enough.
I won’t argue with you.
- Download Heroic
- Download drivers
- Click play
Playing on Linux is not that hard. Dont make it look like it is.
I so wish that was the case.
Half the games I tried on Heroic don’t run and most of them run at <5 FPS even though I own a 4070 and the games I try to run are e.g. Bioshock. Number 1. The original, non-remastered one.
And stuff like Dawn of War crashes once I start the game, same as Bioshock 2, Neverwinter Nights and quite a few other older titles.
And even games that generally work fine (like Shadow of Mordor) sometimes randomly decide to run at 2 FPS.
If anyone has advice about what could cause that, I’d be grateful.
I’m on Fedora 41, running newest proprietary Nvidia drivers.
In that case you seriously fucked something up when installing the drivers
You sure you only have 1 GPU? (No APU) and how did you install them drivers?
And most importantly: What Wine prefix are you using, what wine Version, and did you restart your PC after doing updates?
Yes, my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS which doesn’t have an iGPU. My Nvidia 4070 is the only GPU present on my system.
My GPU driver version is 570.153.02, which is the currently newest production version. When installing it, I used this guide: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
I tried Wine-GE-Proton8-26, GE-Proton-latest, Proton Experimental and Proton 9 (Beta). I tried each of these options with Esync and Fsync enabled and disabled and every combination of these two options.
I tried enabling/disabling VKD3D and DXVK-NVAPI.
And of course I tried rebooting.
I found quite a few people with similar issues online, but never with a fix that actually works. Most of the people with the same issues don’t get any replies at all, and if they do it’s some condescending posts from people who lucked out and don’t have the same issue and think that that makes them better people or something.
(For context, I am a software developer, I programmed for embedded Linux devices for 12 years now. I used Linux as my work OS for the last 7 years until I changed jobs half a year ago and my new company mandates Windows and now I have to deal with WSL. I use Linux as my main private OS for the last 3 years. I compiled kernels for embedded devices quite a few times. It’s fair to say that I do have a little bit of experience when it comes to troubleshooting Linux issues, and I’ve gone through a lot of troubleshooting.)
That’s super bizarre and sorry you’re having those issues. I have a 4070ti w/ an 11900k on arch (use debian on my laptop and printers, chose arch for more recent releases for drivers in particular) and guess I’ve been lucky, arch wiki won’t 100% help but might point you at other possible configs?
Had solid luck with the nvidia-open drivers, and really other than setting a few flags for hdr in KDE (which I’m not sure it’s still needed), I do recall looking at DRM kernel mode settings (section 1.2), most of my grief though has been HDR related (and gamescope doesn’t play nice with some games, steam big picture also can render strange on higher resolutions)
Could be the AMD CPU (had a few kernel issues with that CPU, for example on anything newer than 6.10 the laptop doesn’t wake from sleep, that’s a well-documented issue either with the CPU or the chipset), could be the mobile 4070, could be because I’m using Fedora (some of the issues I have like the one with performance randomly dropping to single-digit FPS and that not clearing up with a reboot are reported quite often on Fedora), could be something entirely different.
I’m on a budget gaming laptop (Lenovo LOQ), could be that they messed up something there, don’t know.
I haven’t even touched HDR so far, because the base function isn’t there.
Games on Steam don’t tend to give me trouble, for some reason it works better there, but I don’t have 300 or so free games on Steam.
I love Garuda, I’ll have to give it a watch. Thanks!
Download drivers, Steam, log in, download some games and play.
