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Sunshine (she/her) to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago

Is Linux Ready For Mainstream Gaming In 2025?

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Linux is quietly gaining ground on Windows in the gaming space. But how well does it actually perform? Here's what I experienced.
  • Lexam
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    I have no problem playing games on Linux. Currently playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Only thing I had to was turn on compatibility in the steam settings.

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      deleted by creator

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m playing Hogwarts Legacy and needed to tune one system setting to fix occasional crashes. That’s it, and that’s the most trouble I’ve had in a few years.

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        2•2 months ago

        🤮

      • @SolarPunker@slrpnk.net
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        2•4 months ago

        Which one? Maybe it can help my audio issue who brings random audio glitches

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          I think it was increasing vm.max_map_count. I had some weird glitches and it would crash after an hour or so, and this seems to have fixed it.

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            Thanks

            • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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              I hope that fixes it!

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                Arch Linux already incremented vm.max count in a recent update, it seems fixed using these launch options: DXVK_MEMORY_LIMIT_MB=14384 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 gamemoderun %command%

                With latest Proton-GE

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      Do you mind me asking you which distro you use? I’ve tried running BG3 on Linux Mint and I can’t seem to get the game to ever load into the world. I get all the way to the in-game menu and into the loading screen after that and then it hangs and crashes. Every time. I’ve tried using a couple different versions of Proton, tried out a few different versions of Nvidia graphics drivers… No luck yet.

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        It runs fine on Linux Mint Debian under proton for me.

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