what video games have you been playing on your Linux machine recently?
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what video games have you been playing on your Linux machine recently?
what video games have you been playing on your Linux machine recently?
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I've been mostly proompting
can anyone redpill me on linux gaming. is it actually a meme?
>installing a videogame and playing it is a meme
if it runs a game worse than windows, yeah.
Runs the same way for anyone who can use his PC.
alright, fair enough. just asking since a lot of v rats like to shit on it
there is one crucial thing i forgot. nvidia drivers are shit so just stick to windows if you have nvidia gpu.
Nvidia works on my machine without problems.
unfortunate. i'll have to stick to windows for now then. thanks tho
makes sense
i'm not too unfamiliar with linux but im no expert in OSs so i might aswell just ask for opinions.
I dont think what people say about Nvidia is true. Its true if you have an older card but people who play games on Linux tend to still have Nvidia cards. Its just that AMD GPUs are very out of the box, the drivers are preinstalled on the OS so you dont need to install them or mess with them really at all. With Nvidia you need to install them and maybe (not my experience) mess with the options a bit
>With Nvidia you need to install them and maybe (not my experience) mess with the options a bit
honestly this wouldn't really bother me.
>Its true if you have an older card
i have a gtx660 so i assume this would apply to me
>but people who play games on Linux tend to still have Nvidia cards
i'll keep this in mind for the future tho.
That is a pre-Vulkan card for Nvidia, so if you switch you won't fully get the benefit of some of the things that make gaming on Linux viable these days.
You would really want to get at least a low-end RDNA2 card.
>people who play games on Linux tend to still have Nvidia cards
AMD has a 60% share of Linux gaming. Even without Deck it is 20% fully Vulkan capable AMD, 10% Vulkan capable Nvidia, 10% pre-Vulkan Nvidia (faking support in the driver), 7% Intel (mostly pre-Vulkan onboard).
Steam survey based stats of course so not fully reliable, but probably accurate enough.
Nvidia being late to the game with Vulkan (and Wayland) support is why people dissuade their use on Linux. It also doens't hurt that AMD hardware has a significant performance advantage vs Nvidia compared how they compare on Windows.
hmm interesting. I have Nvidia right now but I am switching to AMD, not necerssarily because I dont trust that Nvidia wouldnt work its just that I really like the idea of having everything just working out of the box
oh yeah I also wanted to switch to Wayland and with my Nvidia right now Wayland just fricking freezes
It's sort of 50/50, there's some shills epic hired that haven't gotten the memo that Valve doesn't actually "win more" if people install linux, and there's people who are a bit scared of moving over as windows has gotten worse. Something also to keep in mind that at scale when talking about people who aren't just buying OEM which microsoft gets by default, people tend to install windows for Gaming.
baldur's gate 3. not liking it much.
what is there to redpill? it mostly just works except for some mods.
If you have an older pc or amd fx era you might be better off using windows but anything younger and worst cars you’ll see a 5% hit
Lots of games perform better on Linux because of the lighter overhead and proton and dxvk optmisations iirc elden ring and star field were much better performing at launch on linux
>redpill me on linux gaming.
There is no redpill.
Do you have any interest in switching from Windows to Linux?
If so, then you'll be glad to know that playing games on Linux is not impossible.
If not, forget that you ever heard the phrase "Linux gaming" because it doesn't affect you at all.
>is it actually a meme?
The meme is that you should switch to an unfamiliar operating system just because Anonymous told you that some games can run 2% better without the Windows bloat tax.
its not a meme, unless you are trying to play games with malware
said malware has a "make_it_work_on_linux" switch, but devs don't flip it
yeah for regular VAC but I dont know if the kernel level shit that Valorant and soon League of Legends will have will EVER work on Linux
i am talking about EAC
It's snappier than Windows and less of a headache, but there are still occasionally issues.
90% of PC games work.
Most currently popular multiplayer games don't work due to anti-cheats.
If this is a tradeoff you're willing to make just to stop using Windows then Linux gaming is a good choice. Otherwise keep using Windows.
it's a meme
even with the Steam Deck there's virtually no one playing games on linux
something not being popular is not a way to show how something is a meme
OSes are tools, tools don't care about popularity, people simply use the best tools to do what they want
if only a few losers use a tool it's obviously inferior to what everyone uses, this is specially bad for linux since it relies entirely on a community to get any improvements, while proprietary OSes are constantly improving thanks to millionaire companies hiring real developers to work on their software
this argument only works when something is open source. This is why Linux caught up with Windows very fast because things can get better on Linux way easier than on Windows
>if only a few losers use a tool it's obviously inferior to what everyone uses
Good point! Lets look at kernels used by end-user operating systems:
Linux - 44%
NT - 29%
Darwin - 24%
In terms of OS design it looks like this:
UNIX-like - 68%
VMS-clone - 29%
>thanks to millionaire companies hiring real developers to work on their software
IBM, Valve, and Google, are all pretty big companies.
Meanwhile Microsoft has chosen to go it alone vs the rest of the industry and has clearly lost ground as a result.
Everything in linux is done by Red Hat and Valve, kernel developers are paid by Linux foundations, which is financed by a long list of corporations, including Microsoft.
you can game on linux now, no need to suffer on windows
i just emulate a bunch of stuff
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Been messing around with xCloud, it's ok.
Do I really need to swap to arch if I want to game with an Nvidia card on linux?
>install and play Portal: Revolution
>one update later game is broken
Dammit! Guess I'll go play Another Code: Recollection
recently finished portal revolution
how did it break for you? I had some issue I managed to work around
>how did it break for you? I had some issue I managed to work around
I manage to load the game but as soon as the scene shows up the main menu weirdly become superimposed over it and I can't ESC from it, only exit the game
>Are you playing it as Linux native, or did you force it to use proton?
If to force proton is to force compatibility through properties then yeah I have tried that to an even worse outcome
I'll see if it fixes itself. Sometimes these issues do (experienced it with Days Gone)
Thanks anons
didn't have such issues with amd did you try loading a previous save? the game autosaves often
Are you playing it as Linux native, or did you force it to use proton?
When I tried it, it crashed a lot when running it natively, but switching to proton made it run flawlessly.
Maybe if you knew what you were doing,. Maybe go back to windows with the rest of the brainlets
>go back to windows
Nah, I'll stick with Linux, I like the workflow better, and who cares how you get it to work, as long as it works.
it was working fine for me native, the only time it was hanging for me, I tried the windows and it had the same issue, the solution was to reduce effects details to medium
Been mainly playing EVE Online, I can have some music playing or a stream going with it.
Completed Rogue Trader the other day and now I've started on BG3.
Ground Branch 24/7
In no order
>TF2
>Remnant 2
>Lethal Company 2
>Mount and Blade: Warband
>GTFO
>Succubus Affection
my experience with games so far has been (on GTX 970)
>Nier Automata
>Witcher 3
>Fallout New Vegas
Nier and Witcher 3 worked better on Linux than they did on Windows. As for Fallout my GPU doesnt seem to keep up with a lot of projectiles though I didnt play it for long and my experience is that the more you play the better it performs (something about shaders loading?). I think I patched that game on Windows anyway so this isnt a fair comparison anyway.
If I was playing competitve FPS more I would be more concerned about the performance but so far its clearly either better or a bit more unstable
Max Payne.
Apologies for gaming like a normal person instead of having mangohud running all the time. I think we've reached the point where people will believe that Linux can run a game from the year 2001 without seeing mangohud or neofetch.
>I think we've reached the point where people will believe that Linux can run a game
lmao, wintards will tell you otherwise, whether you post proof or not
you know you can toggle mangohud on and off while playing the game, right?
IT'S PAYNE!
>you know you can toggle mangohud on and off while playing the game, right?
If you mean Shift_R+F12, that would require actually having put mangohud %command% or MANGOHUD=1 %command% in the launch options before starting the game, or some other shit I'm not going to take the time to do.
or you could launch steam itself with that environment variable and it'd be passed to all games
he comes to every thread to post the same two pics, you're wasting your time arguing with some obsessed moron, even more when it comes to obsessed wojack posters
>or you could launch steam itself with that environment variable and it'd be passed to all games
true
I didn't thoughever
>appeal to popularity
cringe ngl
During the past couple of weeks I've played Dominions 6, Civ 6, Civ 5, Rogue Trader and Diablo 3
Finished the new Prince of Persia game through the ubishit launcher.
Ran really well and had 0 crashes.
trying to act like windows became the dominant competitor in the desktop market because it was better is ignoring microsoft's long history of sabotaging competitors and preventing oems from installing other operating systems in their computers. People are gonna use what comes with their system, and then they'll continue using what they know how to use
Tribes 3 is online every weekend so far. Its pretty fun you guys should join in.
they seem desperate to make the game into 5v5 e-sports trash
This playtest seemed pretty dead, couldn't find any servers.
Yeah theres no CTF this weekend so I imagine way less people will play.
Elden Ring on a fx6300, Radeon hd7950. Didn't expect it to run at all, but it's stable at 30fps with high antialiasing (for FSR to look nice).
>bulldozer cpu
why
Not him, but I had a Bulldozer CPU for a long time. They weren't good on Windows, but performed pretty decently for the money on Linux.
Kind of like how right now AMD GPUs are undervalued because they perform a few tiers lower on Windows.
Got an old rigged up system at my family's place where I am right now. Fun to optimize.
I *was* playing LoL until they announced their Vanguard malware, which won't work on Linux. Now I have no main game to play
convert to playing Dota or start playing playing that dont drain your soul out
I tried Dota, but it just doesn't feel as good to play, but that's probably because I'm biased.
But yeah, mobas are pretty soul draining given how insanely toxic their communities are.
Doom 3, it has a source port.
same old
pirated games are a pain on loonix, except for GOG
Anyone can play MTW2 natively? It stopped working and I heard it has something to do with 32 bit binaries
>MTW2 native
That hasn't worked in a very long time. It ran well the last time I ran it with proton though.
native version sucks anyway, it doesn't support mods, I don't think it's even actually truly native, Feral use their own translation layer.
Mostly getting a good chunk of my games running on here.