i am full time linux playing contructor plus and cities skylines

Originally posted by twisterbox:

i am full time linux playing contructor plus and cities skylines

I only play games and do school work on windows but for everything else I'm on Linux :D

Cyberpunk 2077 running smoothly.

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

I have not tried that many games yet, but most perform better on Linux than windows. I am using Nobara.

Unreal Tournament 3 performs much worse on Linux than windows, especially through Steam play. Valve's configuration for UT3 is leaving alot of performance on the table.

In my test spot.
Windows: ~165 FPS
Windows with DXVX: ~185-200 FPS
Nobara Linux Steam play: ~98 FPS
Nbbara Linux Wine via Bottles after I configured it: ~140 FPS

I have been trying to find documentation on Steam launch options so that I can configure Steam to use the same settings as I set in Bottles, but there does not seem to be any documentation on the subject. Also Valve has set disable lfx = 1, which I think tells it not to use LatencyFlex. UT3 does not have an anti cheat and Latency Flex does not seem to cause any trouble. Does Valve set it that way for all multiplayer games until they look closer?

I have read many reports of Unreal Engine 3 games often having worse performance on Linux, but many of those reports are old.

Steam also wants to redownload and/or recompile shaders almost every time I start UT3 for the first time since starting Steam. So annoying.


I have been trying to get the Linux version of Unreal Tournament 4 working properly of late. I had to track down a missing library for it to work at all. It plays fine but, character textures are not rendered, the splash screen does not appear, loading screen videos and wallpaper images do not display, and the frame rate is lower than the windows version. Fortunately the windows version works without a fuss on Linux and performs better than on windows.

I would still like to get the Linux version working properly, but I am stuck at the moment. I think there are still some missing dependencies.


Ever since Nobara updated to KDE Plasma 6, Wayland has been unusable do to very high input latency in almost all games. It was hardly usable before in some games because of the Nvidia troubles. I am not sure if Nvidia's drivers, Wayland, or Plasma 6 are at fault for the input latency since they were all updated together. It is looking like I will be sticking with X11 for quite some time.


A nice find recently is that Zone of the Enders 2 does not have the super low volume on Linux that it does when played on windows.


Steam and Gog.com Linux installers are quite annoying, by default they install games for the one user, installing games into the user's folder. So I made a new folder at the root directory that all users can use to install and share games. Unfortunately people tend to blindy click through things, so then I have to move the games so they don't burn up all their storage with a few games. Dear Valve please change the default install location so that programs are installed for all users.

At the moment: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter; Cryostasis: Sleep of reason; Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (campaign) and Battlefield V (campaign).

Recently: Planet Crafter, Manor Lords, Timberborn, Medieval Dynasty, Final Fantasy II PR, Deadlock - Planetary Conquest (an old win 95 game).

Everything has been running pretty smoothly.

Recently:

Balatro, Manor Lords, Elden Ring, Death Must Die, Citizen Sleeper, Dragon's Dogma 2, No Rest For The Wicked

Most run fine on Mint.

Exceptions:

Citizen Sleeper, which has a bit laggy graphics. Luckily it's turn-based, so inconsequential to gameplay.

No Rest For The Wicked, doesn't run perfect. Some fps drops, but it's Early Access and the devs keep improving it.

Dragon's Dogma 2 on the other hand... runs bad. Very disappointed with how the devs (Capcom) have followed up with a very sparse amount of optimization patches.

I've also tried out some of those games on Nobara, which seems to run slightly faster and better in most cases. Except for Elden Ring, which has annoying microstutter on Nobara, for some reason. But yeah, Nobara has also been unstable on my system lately. I'm going to switch from KDE to Gnome to see if that helps.

run dxvk_async and make sure your cpu governor is set to performance mode

I currently play lower production value games at long as the game design is good.

Having a bit of a tired phase so I'm casually playing Solitairica which is good strategy.

Otherwise Invisible Inc, Griftlands (for more casual), King's Bounty:The Legend (which is really well designed), Killing Floor 1 (not recommended for Linux, I got it working finally but two maps still lag a lot), a little bit of Torchlight and rarely Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced in co-op.

I've also set up Might and Magic Book One: Secret of the Inner Sanctum through Steam non-steam game with Boxtron compatibility layer. I also play Heroes of Might and Magic 1 through Lutris which also works well (as does 3 without bug fix mods). 1 is more casual and smaller in nature, so again the tiredness is factored there.

Once I recover my strength I'll probably go back to King's Bounty: The Legend (which is highly replayable with a dizzyingly wholesome amount of gameplay with the long campaign, 3 classes and good procedural generation). I also have all sequels barring King's Bounty II (which is actually a sequel of 1990's King's Bounty, not the new series).

Then I'll play one of the DnD/Dnd-like real time with pause games I have (never played the style outside of Beyond Divinity which is only a little similar in some aspects). I intend to see the Disciples series performance on Linux (GOG version through Lutris) and will play the Heroes of Might and Magic series again. I also have set my eyes upon Dead Monarchy, a mostly solo project with seemingly long playability, good design and a work of passion. At some point I'll also look at old X-Com (GOG, Lutris).

When I find a soundtrack compilation to replace the default (it is supported in game) I'll start playing Severed Steel again too (which runs well on Linux). I already have the band on mind and the vibe fits the gameplay, but I haven't selected the playlist out of all their songs yet.

My Games Run Great, But I Don't Run Them Online... ^_-

Sooo, I have nothing to worry about, =D

Originally posted by Mog:

Curious to hear what you guys are all playing right now, and how your experieicne has been so far? I currently went full time into linux on my main gaming rig around 3 hours ago, and ive almost (finally) beaten the RE4 remake, and i have to say im really happy with how it runs, but i know thats a game that uses proton really well.

Ive also been play ghost of tushima but ive lost around 14-20 fps on that game, and it runs a lot choppier than on windows, hope a fix is done soonish.

I play on linux pretty much everything you can find in my library.
For example, Elden Ring works great, whole Dark Souls series works great, also old games like Enclave work even better than on windows (less crashes, no issues with brightness setting, no alt+tab issues). Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Left 4 Dead works great.

The only exception that hurts me a bit, is HEAVILY MODDED Skyrim: it is a dumb game that relies on windows-specific shared video memory swapping, so if you install 4K textures, then GPU memory gets 100% used, and some textures are swapped to system RAM, and performance drops drastically, from 60 fps to 25 fps in my case. but most of games work well. I don't play multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat, so I have almost nothing to worry about.

I use arch btw

Originally posted by Viphyte:

Cyberpunk 2077 running smoothly.

I tried to play that game recently on the current version of Ubuntu and couldn't get it to launch at all, even with the help of Steam Proton.

Cogmind and I just stream most windows exclusive games through GeForce NOW cause im too lazy to wait to install them