Guides for working settings for each game
Guides for working settings for each game
I’ve dabbled with Linux and I’ve finally decided to try and switch to it for real, mostly because I’m starting a new job soonish that will require more Linux knowledge, but also because I’m getting sick of all the Windows privacy issues.
I’m actually liking it better than I thought. Taking an attitude that I’m sticking with it is giving me more of a drive to actually fix the issues I’m having rather than moaning about them, and it’s a good opportunity to learn.
The one thing I’m struggling with though is gaming. I’ve got a 2060S which I need for CUDA, but I’ve got the drivers working. I’ve not exactly been through my whole Steam library but I’ve not had anything running acceptably yet. DEATHLOOP, for example, on Windows runs at smooth at near 4k. On Wayland the input latency is unplayable and it crashes out every few minutes anyway. I improved it by switching to X11 but I’m still only getting 10-15 FPS when it was smooth in Windows. Even Skyrim has input latency and it’s clearly not running as fast as it should be.
When I check on ProtonDB for help I see no consistency in the settings people are using. Most of the time they just say Experimental, and I figure that changes over time anyway so it’s no help to me anyway.
Is there any helpful advice online as most of the time I just get told to try every proton version and fork until I find something that works? I’ve not even gotten into figuring out what stuff like Lutris is.
I’m on Fedora in case that’s important.
Some Distros come with Nvidia drivers preinstalled and I have heard people being succesful with them PopOS and Nobara come to mind. Nobara is very similar to Fedora, it is in fact based on it.
With such low FPS, it sounds like you’re using nouveau and not the proprietary NVIDIA driver. How did you install your drivers?
Using a guide I read, done through the terminal. That’s all I remember. How could I tell if I’m using Nouveau?
Enter this command into your terminal:
lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
The output will contain "NVIDIA Corporation" in the compatible controller and subsystem section and "nvidia" in the kernel driver in use section.
I had a GTX1660 on Fedora and I played with mostly the same performance as my Windows setup but was really awful to test if things were working correctly, I don't know if the drivers work differently with RX but you could try different distros, Nobara is built using Fedora as a base and have the NVIDIA drivers bult-in.
I'm linking some tutorials to install and configure NVIDIA GPU on Fedora.
Honestly, just get an AMD, it'll make your Linux life much more easier. You could still keep your nVidia card around for CUDA (just blacklist the nvidia/nouveau drivers and install only the CUDA part of the drivers, so it should still be available for compute tasks).
Your 2060S's equivalent is the RX 6600, and you can buy one (or the XT version even) for just ~$172 on eBay (or $200 brand new), so there's really no excuse to not get one (unless your mobo only has one PCIe slot).
It does actually only have two slots, and the other one can’t fit anything because the 2060 is too big.
edit: Correction, I only have one full sized slot.
You could get an angled extension cable, which should be able to slip under and past your 2060. Something like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002364461314.html