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    I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Serious question: how do nvidia drivers perform on Linux? I've heard they're not very good and missing features. Anything I should know about? I have an RTX 3060ti that I use for both games and stuff like blender, substance designer/painter, etc.

    [–] ronflex 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In my experience, not great. I have a 1080ti and run 2k ultrawide. A bit dated but still a pretty powerful card. Some games weren't too noticably different but on cyberpunk for instance I took a huge performance hit and had to adjust my game to look basically terrible to get it playable compared to windows. I think I did this by setting superfx to performance.

    I have to say though, I am running a pretty old processor (barely meets win11 spec) so that could be contributing to my issues.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Thanks! I've been looking harder at Linux, but the thing that's holding me back is that I'm not sure how well the modeling and texturing tools I use will run on Linux and dual booting is a headache.

    Have you ever tried running windows in a vm, and if so, how well does it run? Only reason why I'm considering this is because I've heard some vm tools can do hardware passthrough to significantly increase vm performance. If the stuff I need to run works on Windows in a vm, then I might do that.

    Edit: you might check cyberpunk again, I've heard the new update currently has it performing significantly better on Linux than in Windows.

    [–] ronflex 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sorry for the late reply, I have tried running windows in a VM and it kinda worked. Big pain was forwarding peripherals, I ended up having to use a ghetto KVM switch setup to get it working at the time. Hardware passthru can work well, but was a huge pain to get working right. Once its working though you get pretty damn close to bare-metal performance. Haven't tried that in years tho cuz all my friends made fun of me for being so masochistic lol

    I'll have to try again soon. Honestly thinking of downsizing and seeing if I could possibility use my steam deck with a dock to play some desktop games that aren't too crazy.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ey! No problem. Thanks for the info, I might check it out this week or something. One of my biggest concerns is mainly with weird drm schemes or niche games not playing nice with compatibility layers. That said, I've heard some drm can tell when it's in a VM, but I'd hope that hardware passthrough would be able to fool it. Not sure I'd be running anything that could tell the difference though.

    [–] ronflex 2 points 1 year ago

    I think most anti-cheat won't care a lot, especially with a lot of them actually supporting proton now. Off the top of my head tho I could guarantee that Valorant anti-cheat probably would not work or you would eventually get banned. Their shit runs like a rootkit basically

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