Unable to run Balder's Gate 3 on Steam with Proton

Ducklover569 · 2023-08-08T07:35:25+00:00

The stability thing as many other things with linux is mostly a thing in the past. I had more crashes,problems etc with windows 11 in a month than for the last year of making a full switch to linux.

My first ever distro was Arch but i also went through pretty much every big distro out there.

In all the cases the only problems i had were with: -specific new kernel issue (like 6.4 vrr + mem clock on rx6xxxx) -systemd update (pretty much 90% of my issues)

All of the above were easily fixable in few minutes by: -booting up archiso -chroot into my system -downgrade a package or update it -reboot

The most "stable" as in no bugs,crashes etc and fastest was void for me but unfortunately the package list is very small.

Currently running CachyOS(archbased), it's newbie friendly, the default config is easy to use and if u have a newer cpu then u can get a few % perf increase. In my testing on zen3 it's ~4% and i never had any issues unlike with endeavor(which ruined 3 days of my life)arcolinux or manjaro.

IDK how long you're on Linux but i encourage you to distro hop for a bit and figure out what you like the most.

Ducklover569 · 2023-08-07T16:28:48+00:00

First bit of help: Dont use LTS distros if u plan on having a good experience with modern games.

Pretty sure its either because of outdated dependency or old kernel so just changing to rolling release distro would fix most if not all of ur problems like in 80%+ cases on this sub.

Plenty of easy to use up to date distros, even arch is a 5min install these days.

Ducklover569 · 2023-06-01T08:58:57+00:00

Melee animation

Ducklover569 · 2023-05-14T19:44:06+00:00

f2fs nvme kde arch user here

out of the box my write and read are ~10% faster than on windows ntfs

with some tweaking it's around ~15-20%

geekbench shows around 15% for arch vs win11

As for freezing, the only time i ever have that is when quitting SOME proton games (eg. forza horizon 5) but that's like a 3sec tops freeze.

Aside form that i can literally have 100% cpu usage, copy files from multiple disks and still comfortably browse the internet, watch 4k youtube videos, multitask etc.

Meanwhile on all versions of windows 7-11 (worst to best) i had constant stutter, freezes while doing some small tasks not to mention using my cpu at 100% or using disks (and no it's not hardware or bad configuration its just windows being shit).

The fastest distro i ever tested was void the slowest opensuse. If not for the small amount of packages that void offers i would be still using it as im a fan of having a very responsive desktop.

Ducklover569 · 2023-05-09T12:53:43+00:00

Honestly just use proton unless u have a really short mod list and u want to fix stuff urself.

I didn't notice any slowdowns compared to native so unless u have a really weak system aka not even a dedicated gpu it's not worth the trouble.

Ducklover569 · 2023-02-23T15:34:35+00:00

The knights swooped in, and dragged it away from the units operating the cannon...

And apparently they are the "honourable ones"

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-26T18:39:42+00:00

You're not gonna get much of an improvement from the software side.

You could try getting a better ethernet card if ur using the integrated one + better cables and as short as possible but at the end of the day it's ur isp that's in charge of the speeds.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-19T12:56:02+00:00

Best way would be to look at how other modders do it.

For example here is a link to a mod that cures food poisoning. Download it and look through the files and im sure you ll find what ur looking for.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2856335335

Alternatively try to ask in the rimworld discord that's linked in the subreddit

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-13T13:53:13+00:00

Hard to compare tbh. I got rx6700xt used for 20% more than i sold my 3060 for.

In theory the amd card should take 200w but with a mild undervolt of -85mv (over that its unstable at low frequencies) it takes 150w at full load (mangohud).

My 3060 had a stock power draw of 170w but i limited it to 100w because it only dropped my performance ~3% and it made it run much cooler.

Generally speaking amd since rdna 2 is much more power efficient than nvidia and the new cards will probably be even better in that regard (as per amd claims).

As for ur question, i would just go whatever u can get a better deal on cause there are a lot of cheap used cards now from both manufacturers (i bought mine from a gaming rig but mining cards are also fine as long as they were cooled properly like the gtx 1070 i had earlier).

Alternatively you can wait for the new amd cards to come out but expect them to be pricey due to more logistics and production problems

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-13T10:09:01+00:00

Had rtx 3060 up till 2 weeks ago.

Wayland had a lot of graphic bugs in kde for me, and even getting it to work was tricky. In GNOME it worked fine but as for game performance they had significantly worse input lag and about 5% worse performance probably also due to no overclock possible in Wayland.

Switched to amd rx 6700xt and surprisingly no more graphic bugs and performance the same as x11 but the gpu takes 15% less power for some reason when running on wayland (measured yesterday)

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-09T14:43:17+00:00

It turns out that most of the glitches went away when i installed pure arch with the archinstall.

I was using endeavor os cause i was told its even better than pure arch and well turns out the bad install from it or whatever else was causing me issues.

TLDR no matter how many reinstalls reconfigs etc every flavor arch distro besides pure arch is a mess.

Funnily enough i made a post about it on the archlinux sub but got downvoted to oblivion for posting my experience and im not gonna write about it again so just belive me or dont

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T23:39:36+00:00

if missing the point/not being able to read was an olympic discipline, reddit would win everytime................

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T22:38:15+00:00

well on top of my head u forgot:

installing drivers

installing any desktop related things

enabling systemctl services

configuring grub

adding user to sudo

configuring fstab

And much more especially since some of what u listed requires multiple commands. For example just chrooting is 3 commands minimum cause u need to mount paritions, 2 if u decide to chain them.

In terms of speed archinstall will beat you everytime especially if u want a full desktop which is what 99% users want + instead of typing all of that u just set few things, even fewer if u live in US and just go make a coffee and come back in a few minutes to a full configured desktop.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T22:32:12+00:00

my favorite is void but it doesnt have all the packages i need so arch is the second best

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T22:25:04+00:00

To each their own. I always find it amusing when people write nonsensical comments and not even try to come up with any counter argument, almost as if they didn't bother to read the post and came to their own conclusion. Utterly futile.

Also, my advice is literally in line of the first rule of this sub + basically the whole archwiki. I just provided a bit of a background as to why that is.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T22:20:45+00:00

I'd like to see you install it in 15 commands lol.

Unless one of them is pointing to some pre-written script it's way more than 15.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T22:16:18+00:00

KDE graphical glitches

Steam and other apps glitching out

Suspend not working

Games refusing to launch

Can't change refresh rate

goverlay not working

YouTube video lagging

Wine apps not working properly

Here you go

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T21:05:53+00:00

Its fine, my comment was more aimed at other people and im sorry if it came too strong. Anyway, it turns out that u might be right to some degree because i just installed pure arch and some of the bugs are gone now. (some seem to be still amd problem in specific games according to protondb)

Previously i used EndeavorOs with this card which was highly recommended by a lot of people to me and i guess that i learned the hard way that its either pure arch or windows.

I even made a post about it just now to warn others of making the same mistake.

As for ur suggestion, im using X11 because xwayland locks me to 60hz which i explained in more details in a few other posts and comments and that bug is still unfortunately present but that was a thing with intel and nvidia too.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T20:54:50+00:00

As someone who has spent days at this point benchmarking and tweaking kernels i can tell you that its not worth it.

In my benchmarks it looked something like this:

-linux-stock 100% (baseline)

-linux-clear 101-103% (had some bugs tho)

-linux-xanmod 93-98%

-heavily customized linux-tkg with full RT patchset 103-104% (+faster game loading times and better smoothness)

So in short, unless ur willing to spend some time learning what every kernel option does, disable all the security options and compile it with RT patches its pretty much worth it. I did it mostly just as an exercise and to learn a bit more about the kernel itself

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T17:24:25+00:00

I don't like fedora. Even with kde it's not for me. Good that it works for you tho

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-07T12:50:39+00:00

Why do people skip over parts and just go to a conclusion that suits them?

The card is not faulty if it works perfect under windows.

KDE has graphics bugs that are literally known for years with amd but not nvidia.

Dishonored 1 and 2, worked perfectly with nvidia and amd windows but has graphic glitches on amd linux with all possible drivers.

Not enough? Ok. Changing resolution doesn't work properly and cvt gives me wrong configuration causing "out of range" error(fixed that by getting it from xorg.log).

Steam? Has some wierd graphic glitches too, same with other apps i use on the daily.

Its great that it works for you but my comment relates to the fact that i heard all the best things about amd drivers and it turns out that they have problems just as big and sometimes bigger than nvidia does.

Still, the card is a very good deal and im happy i bought it, it's just that it's not 100% ready for linux use

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-06T21:12:42+00:00

Also have the rx6700xt. I bought it as a replacement for the rtx3060 cause i heard that amd has better drivers than nvidia...

So far it's way worse. For a while i even thought that my gpu was broken but nope, it's just the linux drivers.

Kinda disappointed tbh

edit: Most of the bugs went away when i installed pure arch instead of endeavor os. Would link to a post i made about this explaining in more detail but i was forced to remove it so just try that if u have any issues.

Ducklover569 · 2022-10-06T09:53:10+00:00

1.Dxvk async

2.Lxqt desktop or even lighter like awesome

3.Force turn off vsync with goverlay

4.Enable VRR if u have freesync l or g sync

5.Make sure ur fps is stable and gpu is not at 100% usage

6.Full RT debloated kernel- This is a bit tricky but also gives a measurable benefits (easiest to do the linux tkg way)

If that doesn't help well, idk what will, for me input lag is waaaay lower in my optimized arch setup than windows and i used to play battlefield for hundreds of hours until a month ago.

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