I know, lame post, but I wanted to say that Linux gaming has gotten soooo much better, to the point that I honestly think my games are running better than on Windows. I’ve played so many games, but notable ones are Halo: MCC, MS Flight Sim 2020, Satisfactory, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and right now I’m starting a full playthrough of Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is notorious even on Windows for being a pain because it’s such an old game. You have to install the 4gb patch, and even then it’s a bit rocky. Not on Linux though! I did have to install PhysX but I googled it and saw it was 2 buttons to install on Linux! Now it’s been rock solid and stable, with no crashes.

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn, but that bar is constantly getting lower! Exciting times!

  • Chloë (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yep, all my games just work, to be honest it takes me less time to setup my gaming rig on Linux than windows, and it feels solid as hell. If I have a Linux PC I can get steam in a few seconds and start playing just like that!

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It’s gotten to the point that I buy games without looking them up first. I’ve been running Linux as my daily driver for over a decade, and buying a game used to take research. Is there a native version (probably not but it happens once in a while)? What it scoring on ProtonDB? What have the Lutris folks figured out?

    Now I just buy the game and play it. Granted I don’t tend to play competitive multiplayer games so I don’t run into cheat prevention system nightmares.

  • GreenBottles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Next time I build a gaming machine it will be Linux based. 2x GPU’s and I’ll do a IOMMU passthrough to a Windows VM for any games that I still need it for. I have several machines and all but two are linux currently. My recording studio is Windows because I have too much invested in software at this point. And this rig which is my main\gaming pc. And if it wasn’t for some anticheat systems I would wipe this thing right now.

    • ulkesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Good luck. My experience with vfio is that it works…ish. There are a lot of compromises still, depending on what kind of setup you really want. I’ve effectively said now that if the game doesn’t work on Linux (which now, like you mentioned, is anti-cheat-related), then it’s not worth playing. Windows Recall was enough to finally break me of this “Windows safety blanket” that I’ve had for 25 years of trying to game on Linux. With Proton and Glorious Eggroll’s ge-proton, everything effectively just works. And one day, all this anti-cheat nonsense will be a thing of the past.

      • GreenBottles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’ve done it in the past. It’s always a bit of work. But I really only need it for a handful of things at the most.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing the resource you followed to get PhysX to install on Linux?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’m using Lutris, and Wine is my runner. On my game I could see this button here, for Wine.

      Select the arrow and hit “winetricks”. Then in there it’s a bit convoluted, but

      • Install an Application
      • Cancel
      • Install a Windows DLL or Component
      • Select physx and go!
      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Lutris seems really cool. I couldn’t get it to work.

        I’m on Arch and I tried both the native package as well as the Flatpak version. None of them worked. Something going wrong when installing some shit in an automated installer, I dunno. I wish I could find a good guide. I’m usually handy with these things but I don’t understand the error messages, so…

        • brocon@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’m in the same boat. I installed Bazzite oh my desktop as well as on my Legion Go. Everything runs out of the box. Except Lutris.

          • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.caEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I’ve been using Bazzite for about 2 months now (daily driver for about a month and a half) and Lutris came preinstalled for me. I’ve had zero problems using it, I have battle.net games and EA app (fuck that app BTW) games installed and it just works for me.

            Was it not preinstalled with your initial installation of Bazzite?

            • brocon@feddit.orgEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Nevermind. Found out it was a failure on my part. By default it does not show un-installed games. Because I had no games installed, it always showed no games. And I assumed it was broken.

              • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.caEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Trial and error, I feel your pain. I’ve learned a lot since switching and I’m loving it tbh!

                Glad you got it figured out!