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I feel like the minority. The few times I’ve tried games on linux with decent hardware (eg radeon vii, rx580, rtx3060?) it was just trash. like straight up stuttering and nonsense.

Maybe the only games I ever tried were in that 10% that aren’t supported or will never be supported (hitman, deus ex, etc).

this led me down the rabbit hole for a while of gpu passthrough w/ vfio / sriov and virtual machines. those worked really well but also had their own problems.

in the end i just bought a damned ps5 pro that rarely gets used. but at least it “just works” when I want it to. which is more than i can say for anything remotely related to using linux for games or even as a decent desktop.

and yes, i tried your distro. the only one perhaps that wasn’t a headache was void.

Did you try before or after Valves push for proton? Both of those are rated Platinum.

If platinum-rated, should run fine with latest Proton, and maybe also some environment variables on launch to force using the dedicated GPU. Assuming the kernel and drivers are up-to-date.

fwiw, upgrading from rx580 to rtx5070 solved all of my performance problems (both on windows and Linux) for a number of games.

To fix stuttering I had to disable compositing in the window manager (Xfce on Linux Mint, nVidia proprietary with AMD CPU).

And there's also pulseaudio, which I had to run in some games with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%, other games you can only run in lutris, other games you can't even minimize it or it will mess up with the screen entirely.

Same. Tried Pop OS and Cachy OS. Multiple devices.

A tiny minority of my steam library even runs at all. Most games I click Play, nothing happens, 5 seconds later the play button is green again. The ones that run, stutter.

Is it still possible if I persist? Probably, but so much for this "just works" marketing.

I had the same problem. Installing vulkan libraries fixed that for me.

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