it really depends what games you wanna play, just like every other use case. reminds me of all the talks from people they need a beefy rig and then only play starcraft and CS...
I'm constantly amazed at how this stuff is all just garbage.
are you new to linux? AMD GPUs working flawlessly with linux is mostly just delusional cope by linux cultists, they'll never tell you how many hoops they had to jump through for them to actually work properly or that linux gaming still sucks ass compared to windows
Maybe 15 years ago. Almost all modern games run perfectly fine, and often better on linux. The most common problem is anti-cheat, like battleey and EAC, in multiplayer games. Those games still run fine, just the anti-cheat is fuck. I personally haven't come across a single game that has given me an issue on linux for like 7 years now, but I don't play f2p pay2win multiplayer trash or gacha games with garbage anti-cheat.
so you're telling me that desktop linux has been completely fixed since the last time i gave it a chance about 1.5-2 years ago? was told the exact same thing back then
Man, I don't know what hardware you're using, what distro you installed, how you installed or config'd your machine but there's plenty of retard friendly options that you can install on modern metal that will work out of the box. If your computer has hardware that fits between the recommended specs of most games you should be able to install linux and lutris and play vidya and use your computer like a normal person without issue. The explosion of handheld devices like the steamdeck, which run linux, have certainly helped gaming on linux as a whole in the last couple years however.
was using an R7 2700 + RX 460 back then, tried many different distros and half of them wouldn't even display anything unless i added nomodeset to the boot parameters
1.5-2 years ago that was a 6 year old budget GPU which would struggle to hit 40-50 FPS in low settings in modern games on windows, so I'm not surprised. However if you installed amd-gpu drivers and mesa you should have had no problems using it normally, without using nomodeset in grub and been able to play anything it could handle normally. (linux mint probably would've configured it correctly by default in 2021-22, though I'm not sure)
the issue here is that the games ran perfectly on windows but had garbage performance on linux
was always told that AMD drivers are already baked into the kernel or whatever and that i should not bother downloading them but okay
I would say that for the AMD CPUs with Vega graphics, which they still are selling for some reason and will be in a lot of fairly recent laptops up for sale, they generally just match the better offerings of Intel's Xe IGPUs.
They are, the only thing you might update for gaming is manually going for more cutting edge Mesa drivers.
I will say, Intel's Xe's graphics, the one in my laptop... aren't bad actually. My laptop is a shitbox, but if you load something older on it, it runs it pretty good. Dawn of War 1 runs great
Yeah. I'll admit I'm looking at the 4060 8gb because it's cheap, but I also know 8gb is shrinking in terms of what it can do FAST. Still 8gb of ram would be the most ram I've EVER had on a card lol.
And this is why Windows 11 will be my OS and why I don't plan on changing it on my laptop lol
You wouldn't put an RTX 4090 with a ryzen 3600, because the GPU would never be utilized entirely. I'm asking what AMD card would be at the right power level for my 9900k.
To be fair, that's why I haven't completely dropped it either. Even 2gb of VRAM will still run a lot of games still. Cards like the 1030 still sell for budget rigs. On newer titles, it just means you'll have to accept you won't get 8k 500 frames a second, a great loss, I know.
Now that makes sense. The chip shortages would have affected their design decisions a ton. Newer cards don't have that issue. I will say with the GDDR6X thing, they could have just gone with slightly slower ram, but I also get Nvidia as well.
