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I've been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)

So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.

I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it's part of the fun!

Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)

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[–] inurblacchole@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

howwwwww. i have a pretty nice amd chip and radeon graphics card, on arch with wayland. i get stuttering, which i read was normal, on my more intensive games like dead space. deep rock galactic i can't play with my friends and it also stutters...what were the small issues you troubleshooted?

[–] MrShelbySan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have made quite a few tweaks to my system :

  • My kernel is the linux-tkg kernel
  • I've installed gamemode
  • I use wine-tkg to get FSYNC
  • I check ProtonDB for each game I install, to check for any launch parameters that might be needed / help with performance
[–] sunred@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yeah, the linux-zen kernel is a good alternative to linux-tkg for gaming that's available in the official repos. What most likely makes the biggest difference and is probably the issue for @inurblacchole is the lack of gamemode. Depending on the cpu and the default governor used it might not boost enough in games where performance or schedutil is needed.

[–] inurblacchole@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

thanks so much to you and @mrshelbysan! gonna try the tweaks out

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