Linux Gaming thread

The other choice is to use the ConstantlyGettingWorseOS

Play Urban Terror.

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Yesterday one of my friends which I thought was the mildest, least tech aware of my friends, made a system d joke.
I was fucking amazed.

Super Tux Racer

Why should I bother using Linux for games if I could just play the same games on Windows? The games won't play any better, and there aren't any exclusives motivating me to switch. Any non-game things a Linux distro would be better at is irrelevant on Yea Forums

Use windows 7 until support is dropped, then use windows 10 LTSB. I don't see any reason to get involved with linux, especially for gaming.

Some of us like to do the impossible

Not getting interrupted with a forced update, not getting your machine bricked, not getting shoved ads on your face...
All those things can ruin a gaming session, and they don't happen on linux.

Gaming on windows 10 is like having a dreamcast with a fucked power fork or a PS2 with a shitty drive.

>caring about placebo security updates
i highly doubt devs are going to stop supporting 7 for a long while, even then most games are shit nowadays so who cares

I play KSP, CS:GO and CrossCode on Arch
Linux

OR BAD GOYIM AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM

1on1 me in multiplayer

Also now that Epic bought Rocket League devs, the Linux version will most likely become unavailable, so we will have to play the hockey mode in SuperTuxKart to get our dose of carball

Well if it's your cup of tea go for it, I guess. On a related note, do you think that the comments cuck sweeney made will be detrimental to games for linux?

>he likes security holes in his system
Ease up on the faggotry

reminder that using linux is anti-capitalist

>he doesnt have Common Sense™ 2020™ installed

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and that's a good thing!

>Advocates using an unsupported OS
>Has the audacity to tell other people to use common sense
Pic related. It's you.

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anybody here tried using/is using kvm + PCI passthrough?

baraka?

Yes, though I only use it for VR and the occasional game that doesn't work in wine.

What CPU do you have? And is there even a noticeable difference in gayming performance compared to native win?
I really need a new pc soon, so I'll probably have to go intel again because I don't want to slap 2 gfx into my tower.

I have a ryzen 2700x and 2 graphics cards. I haven't noticed any difference from native windows, but I hardly play on native so I don't really have a good frame of reference.

Thanks for the info! You would probably notice at least weird input lag or other stuff of that sort, so that's a plus for kvm. But power yeah, probably gonna wait for a nice 3rd-gen Ryzen w/ igpu, 2 graphics cards only if I find a good low-power option.

>implying it's not

Play Frogatto

Why would Microsoft have any reason to make Windows 10 better once they no longer have to compete with 7?

If you're still running Windows 7, you've waited way too long and we're in for a rough spot no matter what, but its still the case that the sooner you drop Windows 7 and upgrade to Linux the better the future of PC gaming will be.
Do you think Epic would have been able to do have the bad shit they've done this year if Linux use was at 3-5% in the west instead of 1-2%?

I used Mint and Ubuntu, but I couldn't get used to it. I'll probably just force myself to use Ubuntu and practice from Linux Journey.

Crosscode. Blue Revolver and Proton will keep me occupied at least

Factorio.

If you use Linux as your everyday OS but you like to play games or do shit like drawing, video editing, create music, ... you're an idiot.
Linux is good to use as a workmachine, but not for your everyday entertainment or hobbies (except if Linux itself or programming is your hobby)

Linux is fine for illustration. I haven't dabbled in to video editing abd music making, but I can definitely vouche for drawing.

You don't need Photoshop to doodle, despite what everyone says about it. I got along just fine with MyPaint of all things, I'm not hurting for Sai or PS.

Old-school gaming is just as good on Linux as on Windows, in fact most of the emulators and compatibility tools you use on Windows were developed for playing those games on Linux.
Its also fully capable of most entertainment uses, with full featured TIVO solutions, Kodi, and every streaming service you can think of.

Really the only thing that Linux doesn't do well with, are modern AAA E-Sports titles.
The very games Yea Forums professes to hate. If anything, Linux makes boycotting them that much easier.

You have Krita for drawing which is actually great and what makes Windows better for music production?

I use Wine for playing
Arcanum
EYE Divine Cybermancy
Euro Truck Simulator 2
All of the 3 games are installed on my Windows partition.
I also use flatpak to install RetroArch and OpenTTD

Linux has games, what Linux does not have is proper drivers. This won't change, abandon all hope.

Monster Hunter World
FFXIV
Risk of Rain 2
Sekiro
MapleStory private servers

>All of the 3 games are installed on my Windows partition.

How do you avoid the NTFS performance hit?

You can run it in AHCI and make sure your disks are defragmented.

Your harddrives also come with driver updates; but most people don't update their mobos for harddrive specs because, I mean, who exactly cares about that?

I'm not sure if you're fucking with me or not.

I'm playing through the Rance series (using wine). Started X recently. No problems so far.

Waiting until 8.1 support ends then moving to gentoo and openbsd.

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Are you using a VM? Theres no way those specs are real. Are you from 2004?

Well no, NTFS is a file system that subordinates data logically. You could run it in RAID 0, or just do Advanced Host Controller Interface (which is easier) to get a bunch of speed out of it.

Defragmenting is important too, since it keeps your drives nice and orderly.

>When you defrag your computer you not only increase the speed of the computer but you also keep your hard drive healthy and extend its lifespan. The wear and tear of fragmentation will eventually shorten its life but with proper maintenance you keep it running smooth and steady.

Then you can update the motherboard chipset drivers themselves, to help with the actual longevity of your parts.

>It is important to keep the components on your motherboard in good working order, not just for playing games but for general system performance. The best way to accomplish this is to keep your motherboard's BIOS and chipset drivers up to date.

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That's what happens when you're poor, but had a nice window to buy a new computer many, many years ago.

>what makes Windows better for music production
The fact that every single piece of music production software on linux is complete ass.

It will change, but slowly, with time.

>Do you think Epic would have been able to do have the bad shit they've done this year if Linux use was at 3-5% in the west instead of 1-2%?
Epic launcher is proprietary software either way. It does not matter if you run it on linux or windows, they'll fuck you over the same way.

Linux comes with drivers for most standard hardware out of the box. Some FOSS drivers, such as several GPU ones, are nowadays better than proprietary Windows variant.

If game developers allowed Linux programmers to "volunteer" their free time to coming into the studio and porting the game over to Linux then we'll see a lot more linux games.

But lets face it no developer is gonna want to open their secret sauce source code no matter how many non-disclosure agreements the linux volunteer signs. And no highly paid linux dev in their right mind would spend their precious free time developing a game of all fucking things.

Works on my machine™

There are instances where old Windows games will run better through Wine than on modern Windows, and there have been some very rare instances where more modern games will actually run better on Linux through shit like Gallium9 (but, this is an exception, not a rule).

Yes. It's honestly not terribly difficult to get working, but it can take a lot of tweaking to get the best performance out of it. When properly configured, you're effectively getting 98-99% the performance of just running the OS natively. The only real downsides are the setup, the hardware required, and the fact that a handful of multiplayer games (I'm only aware of CS:GO, but there may be more) won't be very happy about being run in a VM. There's still a fair bit of stuff that doesn't run through Proton, so passthrough helps fill in those gaps. My problem with it is my main display only has 2 inputs, one of which is a shitty old revision of HDMI. So, I either have to have my host at 60hz and my guest at 144hz, or vice versa. I may buy a KVM switch one day to rectify that, but for now I just dual boot when necessary.

OR TRANNIES AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM

most of industry is recognising that going open source is the future.

Regarding game engines, there is really nothing to lose if you show your sekrit hax to some nerds in order to get a Linux port.

>most of industry is recognising that going open source is the future.

Gonna need a sauce on that. Developer tools like like UE4 or unity is semi-open at best.

>If game developers allowed Linux programmers to "volunteer" their free time to coming into the studio and porting the game over to Linux then we'll see a lot more linux games.
Nobody is going to volunteer their free time in general. There are porting studios out there like Feral Interactive that will port games, but it's obviously not free. Honestly, Wine/Proton is currently the most realistic solution towards making Linux viable as a gaming OS--it takes having to port shit or develop for Linux, as well as having to support a Linux port, out of the equation. Most game developers have no fucking clue how to develop for Linux in the first place and create half-assed ports that are impossible to support, then they turn around and blame the operating system rather than their own inexperience, so it's really for the best. There are a LOT of games in my library that run better through Wine/Proton than they do through their native Linux version.

>But lets face it no developer is gonna want to open their secret sauce source code no matter how many non-disclosure agreements the linux volunteer signs
You act as if it's a necessity that a game be open source to run on Linux. The overwhelming majority of native Linux games are proprietary and running on proprietary engines.

He's most likely referring to the tech industry as a whole, which has been shifting quite heavily towards open source for basically every non-desktop use case, especially as the role of the desktop becomes less important (even on the desktop, we can see Microsoft becoming more favorable towards open source with all of their recent "We Love Linux" initiatives).

good plan

Embrace, extend, extinguish

Is it even possible to extinguish open source project?

No, which is why the only Windows-competitors left are the open ones. Even the vastly technologically superior options like BeOS were killed off, locked in a box and forgotten about which pretty much puts a lie to the idea that in a capitalist system the better option will always ultimately win.

I have 290 games in my library that I could install and run right now including Dark Souls 3, Sekiro, Stellaris, Red Orchestra 2, Ace Combat 7, Devil May Cry 5, Resident Evil 2 Biohazard, Guilty Gear Revelator, and more.

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