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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CPU: OK ✅

RAM: OK ✅

GPU: OK ✅

Storage: WTF 🤯

Sound Card: The time has come and so have i 🎵😎

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

rn downloading and its 33.3GB + 1.7GB shader cache

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Bought include both storage for downloaded compressed archives and then to unpack before deleting them?

I've run into this when updating games where I have the game installed and enough space for the update but not enough for that middle ground when it's getting unpacked

[–] deus 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's much more reasonable, I don't even have 85GB available. Why would they recommend that much storage?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a dev just right click propertied their folder and typed that in haha. I think it's probably downloaded and cached community content. Unless it's a hint at new danger zone stuff

[–] Jontique 3 points 1 year ago

My guess is that the shown number is the storage requirements when they add the war games maps and Danger Zone maps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My guess is future proofing.

AKA Subtly forcing users to buy more storage real state 💾💵

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I have that, but 85GB of space? I need some space left to store my offline backup of Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

all the knife skins

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think it's closer to 45, might be a typo

[–] warmaster 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just played a match, it's working perfectly on Wayland and pipewire. I'm using -vulkan as a launch parameter.

[–] Linus_Torvalds 1 points 1 year ago

Coo, thanks for the info! FYI, the best place for those kind of Linux reviews is ProtonDB (here directly linked to the game). You can specify and filter for --launch-options, distro, GPU, ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Especially VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library is interesting. This means mesa 23.1 or higher on AMD GPU's is a must. Iirc Nvidia supports vk gpl for a year or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That just says recommended - you likely get frame stutter without GPL but the game would probably smooth out after 5 minutes or so.

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

Highly recommended in the minimum spec sheet is a must for me lol

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

Latest graphics drivers are always a good idea regardless.

[–] bery 2 points 1 year ago

True. Recently I updated my 1050ti graphics driver on my dads windows machine and it now runs valorant at 120 FPS instead of being locked to 60 to not drop frames too often

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

What does that mean for my RX 5600XT?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The gpu supports gpl, but it depends on yoir distro and how Steam is installed which mesa version you have. What's you distro release? Native package manager or flatpa?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Run vulkaninfo | grep VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library and see if it's there.

[–] Linus_Torvalds 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I just ran vulkaninfo and it's there. Btw: You can check your version apparently with vulkaninfo | grep driverInfo.

[–] GustavoM 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Minimum:

CPU: A potato

RAM: One thousand ants

GPU: Your soul

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Still not bad requirements at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if it has a native Vulkan renderer now or it just has DXVK baked in. If the latter, bad news is it halves my framerate İN CS2LT on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source 2 has native Vulkan and DX11 suppport. CS2 on Linux uses Vulkan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even without the '-vulkan' launch parameter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is Ubuntu is a requirement or am I misunderstanding?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically I believe latest Ubuntu LTS and SteamOS (specifically on the Steam Deck) are the only officially supported distros for Steam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AKA It also works on Mint.

[–] fromaj_debite 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mint is defuckulated Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There is a difference between "supported" and "works"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I believe steam only officially supports ubuntu, but it will work on any distro.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The steam runtime runs ubuntu anyway, so don't worry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit late to the party, but so far the game seems to be working fine on my Manjaro install (running Wayland+Pipewire, RX 6800 XT).

[–] WereCat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you noticed any artifacting when looking at smokes and molotoves? The "hot air" effect for me just displays purple glob sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, in further testing I've seen purple artifacting around smokes, and sometimes around molotovs. It seems to be worst with the smokes, though.

[–] Darkpepito_tux 2 points 1 year ago

It took me 3h to download and my gpu is too low... I have to change this shitty laptop