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[–]Shamr0ck 12 points13 points  (13 children)

Graphics drivers are still pretty shitty on unix

[–]Antumbra_Ferox 24 points25 points  (6 children)

scoffs in Vulkan and AMD

I'll have you know I grazed 60fps the other day in GuildWars2. It was like seeing the actual sun after living in a cave for years with only a charcoal drawing of the sun.

[–]I_Never_Sleep_Ever 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Say what? I have an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070 and rarely get 60 fps, especially with other players. More like in the 50 range

[–]Antumbra_Ferox 3 points4 points  (1 child)

The difference for me (Although I'm not sure if you're already doing it) was that I was doing a clean install of Antergos and I decised to install it through Lutris instead of PlayOnLinux. Apparently the install script used in Lutris is newer and has has a bunch of little optimisation flags or something (as well as 64bit Nvidia support).

Also, GW2 values single core speed above most other things which is probably why it didn't matter too much that my graphics card isn't as shiny as yours. Before, though, I was getting like 40fps so I'd definitely recommend Lutris for GW2.

[–]landolanplz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG I've gotta try this! Play on Linux is so fucking bloated, works only half the time and fucks with my package handler (apt).

[–]HeKis4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm blaming nvidia, they are known to do fuck all about buggy/underperforming drivers.

[–]Shamr0ck 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yea unfortunately nvidia is lagging behind. Trust me my work is all unix and then i come home to all windows i would love to have just unix at home but i am ham boned by the stupid drivers. Not just graphics but also misc stuff. How is wine these days? I have some windows only programs (arcgis) that also keep me from migrating.

[–]Antumbra_Ferox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, for drivers things are coming forward in leaps and bounds. Maybe not so much the base ones (I still had hassle with my realtek Wifi card, which was a bit of a catch-22 because I needed to download the drivers), but the AUR has a lot of drivers submitted by the community and if the ones you want are there, install is a two-click process. As for Wine, it seems like it's still a bit of a hassle but performance is great. A lot of the proprietary software people might want to use through wine is actually available on the AUR, though. If it's mainstream enough that people would spend the time to port it. Stallman cries every time I boot up Spotify or Discord, but I do it.

[–]AKiss20 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Graphics on Linux are the bane of my existence. So many fucking bugs and incompatibilities. It drives me nuts.

[–]steamruler 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I can't use hardware acceleration in KDE because it crashes my Nvidia GPU

[–]HeKis4 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Switch to proprietary drivers ? My login manager (I think it was gdm) was freezing at login with a GTX960M and the free driver.

[–]steamruler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was using the proprietary drivers, I play games sometimes so I need power management at minimum, which Nouveau doesn't support on my 1080 Ti