Linux gaming thread

Wayland or xorg for gaming?

Try them both and see what works best for you. Wayland is newer and might not be as stable depending on your hardware

>What are you playing?
struggle,but i tried risk of rain mods yesterday and breaking the game as tracer to solider is fun,and they really got the physics right for rocket jumping.
>What distro are you running?
arch,will probably try something new soon.
>Any tips for new users?
proton is amazing,but native ports will always be more reliable.
>Any new software/kernel updates you're excited for?
deckUI is cozy already,hope they can make it work well for all PCs.

They're basically the same performance wise, I can't see any difference. However Wayland handles multiple monitors and alt-tabbing better. The problem with Wayland is that there are still bugs, especially on KDE.

Also Silent Hill 2 on PCSX2

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I wasn't calling for a containment board. I want a Linux gaming board so I can post on it.

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Can't you make a general on /vg/?

should i use the runelite flatpak or appimage

Is Nvidia really as bad on Linux as people say?

No

no
it works fine on arch, proprietary drivers
t. 3090 user

i installed xivlauncher but it says it can't connect to steam
how do i make it detect steam?

no
the NVIDIA hate comes from the open source community because NVIDIA doesn't give a shit about them
you can argue all day about whether or not that justifies going with AMD but their proprietary drivers work

its not horrible,they're decent,its only bad next to the AMD drivers.

github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0-2
> github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0-2
github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0-2
> github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0-2

And FUCK Media Foundation

In regards of Linux gaming I decided to publish my gaming laptop review right here in this thread since I exclusively run Linux on the device and I only use it for gaming and cooming.

I got myself the Acer Nitro 5
CPU: Intel i5-10300H (8) @ 4.500GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
RAM: 8GB

Running Kubuntu on it with latest nvidia driver. Games run fine and best at 60fps capped, cpu temps can go up to 75°C when under load, the i5 is capable of perfectly emulating PS2 and PS1 (no wonder desu but I wanted to name it) the device begins to struggle when I try to play Death Stranding which seems to be software issue but I am not sure, this is the only game where the experience was not great at all and I consider it unplayable, look at my other post these are all the games I tried and had success playing with enjoyable results, all in all I can recommend this device to anyone who wants to have a portable gaming rig that is capable of playing some good ass games on the go without the need of Windows. You will often need to tweak proton with the DXVK_ASYNC launch parameter aswell.

perfect for cooming and gaming

>What are you playing?
Witcher 3 mainly, also some CSGO, HL: Deathmatch and TF2
>What distro are you running?
Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. Just officially releases and had been running the RC from the start of the month
>Any tips for new users?
Use Lutris. Learn to love the terminal. Try to not use whacky PPAs.
>Any new software/kernel updates you're excited for?
Not really. The latest kernel LTS is good enough and supports all of my hardware.
Only looking forward to improvement in Proton and DXVK.

forgot pic

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The only thing I'm annoyed by is lack of hardware acceleration in browsers. Other than that its fine, using Linux 6 months now and never had a problem with games because of Nv*dia, it works fine but feels just ghetto. I still would get a Radeon given the chance, AMD is just better for Linux

works on my machine
firefox nightly, arch, proprietary nvidia drivers

>Reactor online.
>Sensors online.
>Weapons online.
>All systems nominal.

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>firefox
yeah no thanks

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Works perfectly for gaming. AMD is trash if you want to do any Machine Learning or Blender.

Why are you making shit up?

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cause it just werks

kys

firefox does support hardware acceleration for videos via ffmpeg libraries, the problem is the browser is so fucking shit I just use mpv to and dlp to just download vids and watch them

wasn't that added in 99 though

>gpu usage spikes to ~35% when running this test
get real

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no, it's definitely been in there prior to that

github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

We're talking about hardware video decoding, fucking retard.

>hardware acceleration

Yes, hardware video acceleration. That's what people mean when talking about hardware acceleration in the context of web browsers.

picrel

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alright give me a test and I'll verify that for you

have you tried running Death Stranding under windows with the same hardware? it's a very demanding game

Go play a 4k60fps video on YT and look at CPU usage.

youtube.com/watch?v=PwRtnJXaRQE
gives me anywhere from 20-40% gpu spikes on a 3090 on gotop

Cool but I said CPU usage.
Compare it between Firefox and mpv.

>What are you playing?
factorio
>What distro are you running?
arch (+ KDE)
>Any tips for new users?
use LTSC
>Any new software/kernel updates you're excited for?
native zfs support

it'll work in firefox, like I said it supports it via ffmpeg 4.4 libraries

also this, firefox uses it poorly, it's shit, it's why i dont bother, it has hardware accel but it's very bad performance with it
>factorio
Man I still wanna t

the % difference overall on cpu is like a few single digits more, gpu clearly doing the heavy lifting

fug i hit post by accident

factorioI still wanna try to get better at this game but everytime I do I end up making spaghetti and lose motivation

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How many 100% open-source games (with at least free as in free beer assets) are popular with regular with some degree? I can think of StepMania, 2048, One Hour One Life (>2,5K reviews on Steam).
Glider is also now open-source and free as in free beer, but it was mostly popular among Mac users and now it's mostly unheard of.

What CPU do you have? If it's something highend (which it probably is considering you have a 3090) the difference won't be more than a few percent.

Quake
Quake II
Quake III
Doom
Doom II
Doom III

5800x
mpv uses less resources overall ofc and its what I usually use since I view stuff through invidious links anyway
mpv has the benefit of not being a browser

mpv is more efficient, of course, but even in a browser you shouldn't be using more than 1-3% CPU when playing videos with hardware decoding enabled.
If you're getting something like 5-10% then you're almost certainly using software decoding.

>100% open-source games (with at least free as in free beer assets)

There aren't enough Linux gamers to sustain one. Make a thread on /vg/ and it dies immediately, or maybe gets bumped once or twice by complaints that "[Game] General #84579852395 died for this!" whereas an entirely separate board can just exist even if it's slow.

they work fine, but they're proprietary and closed to hide nvidia's card-gimping code.