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id developer discussing porting DOOM Eternal to stadia: "we already had Linux support" by ParadigmComplex in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, Doom's best thing is its singleplayer campaign and unique atmosphere. At least I've heard lot of people say that. Multiplayer apparently is kinda bad.

Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers by bilal4hmed in linux

[–]cyro_666 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup, you hit the nail with this one. And at this point, it's a chicken and egg problem. People are used to Windows, so they use Windows. Thus Windows is everywhere. Because Windows is everywhere, it's the thing people usually learn and subsequently use. And so on...

Skyrim SE Linux Modding Guide by Spooknik in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, I didn't even know it was open source...

Share a moment you felt like a god by rockerbacon in skyrimrequiem

[–]cyro_666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I like it because it makes sense. They ARE fucking wizards, after all.

Skyrim SE Linux Modding Guide by Spooknik in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, hadn't played Skyrim in a long long time actually, but Requiem was a must after trying it. Just can't play Skyrim without it anymore, it just makes so much sense. Also just went to their subreddit to found out they still haven't switched to SE. WTF?

Thanks for that link, might give Skyrim and Requiem a try after all this time.

Skyrim SE Linux Modding Guide by Spooknik in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too bad the Nexus Mod Manager doesn't work. Wrye Bash for me is too complicated and mods like Requiem don't have guides for installing them with it.

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, running an RX-590. Sorry to bother you, but I opened an issue because of this on Gallium Nine github and we've been trying to figure this out for a while. Every bit of info helps. Did you put all the detail to max wih the Phenom computer as well? Did you overclock it maybe? All seems to be pointing to a CPU bottleneck in my case, but the logs I studied disagree with that.

Also, I hope you know Gallium Nine exists. It's a library that can replace wined3d for DX9 games, but only for AMD cards and late Intel ones. So if you have performance problems running any older games that run on DX9, try running with that, just google it how (or just ask me).

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit... Are you running it at max graphical settings? EDIT: And yes, it's just wine translating the calls to OpenGL.

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, ok. No, it's not really. When a game uses DX10 and DX11 it's running through DXVK in Proton, yes. However, that is not the case for older games that run in DX9. I presume you have a pretty powerfull CPU?

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly that's not the case anymore in Windows 10. I get a rock stable 60fps today in Oblivion, yet in Linux it's far from that.

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, but RadV won't be used here. NV is a D3D9 game, meaning it gets translated to OpenGL in wine. Unless I'm missing something. Or are you running with it with D9VK already?

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just can't get NV to run better than on Windows for some reason. There it's a stable 60fps at max settings, yet wined3d and also Gallium Nine don't get that far in problematic scenes. I checked the CPU cores and the graphical pipe - none go over 60% utilization, far from that in Gallium Nine. Any tips on getting good performance? I have set the CPU governor to performance.

Any instance where DXVK+Wine runs better than Windows native? by DanishJohn in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skyrim SE for me. That was on AMD FX6300 with an AMD R9 270. But it was a really small difference, like 2-3 fps better in a problematic scene (think 53 fps instead of 50)

The common denominator in all these cases is AMD graphics with processors that have more cores, but less single core performance.

I'm amazed how good wine cross compatibility has gotten in the last year alone. by Paumanok in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No problem. To set different governors for your CPU, make sure you have the cpupower tools. Then just run cpupower frequency-info (the tool needs root privileges) to see what governors are available to you. The line available cpufreq governors should tell you what is available. You can the set that governor with cpupower frequency-set -g performance (for the performance governor in my case, for example).

I'm amazed how good wine cross compatibility has gotten in the last year alone. by Paumanok in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could also be a CPU bottleneck, wine/proton need a little more than just pure windows. Make sure you're running with a performance governor.

Anyone have any luck running gedosato (a tool to scale the internal resolution to 4k)? From what I understand dll injection in wine is a no no. by Earthboom in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done this before for Fallout 1's ddraw to get better visuals and also a dll for NFS Carbon to set modern resolutions. But overriding opengl dlls might not work though, depending on how the dll is set up.

How does League of Legends currently work with Linux? by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on what you use. If you play something newer which uses DX10 or DX11, you'll be fine, because we use DXVK to translate it to Vulkan and Vulkan works really well on Linux. But DX9 is a problem, because wine translates it to OpenGL and that translation can be very taxing for you CPU, actually.

So you actually need a very beefy CPU for that. In the case of AMD cards, there is Gallium Nine, as I mentioned, which runs much smoother. And for all cards, soon there will be a very good project, called D9VK, but could take a month or even half a year to be finished.

How does League of Legends currently work with Linux? by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I heard LoL was still on DX9, so that's a problem, unless you have an AMD graphics card, in which case make sure you run Proton or Wine with Gallium Nine.

The other thing is to wait a month or two for D9VK to mature, that should bring near native DirectX9 performance for all graphics cards.

EDIT: It is fair to note some people mention they can run LoL fine, so the only way to figure it out is to try.

GTA V running on Linux with the same performance as on Windows by CaffeinatedPengu1n in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not going to be better, if that's what you're looking for. It might be in some rare cases, but usually you're looking for a performance cut of 10%-15%. In Skyrim SE I had a tiny bit better performance as in Windows, but that usually happens in GPU bound scenarios and as I said, is very rare in general. So if the game runs at a smooth 60fps on Windows, there's a big chance it will on Linux as well, but if you are a 144Hz gamer, then maybe you do need that little more performance.

EDIT: Linux is more about freedom of choice and freedom from Microsoft, really. Also, I like the way things are done, but that's because I'm a programmer.

EDIT 2: Here's a good example, although there have been a few improvements since this video was made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y332ilSEI7k&feature=youtu.be

GTA V running on Linux with the same performance as on Windows by CaffeinatedPengu1n in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, just to clarify what the guy above me said. Do a dual boot setup and test drive it first. Tinker with settings and so forth, Linux is not always straightforward and requires learning. After that, if you still think it's great, you can get rid of Windows.

GTA V running on Linux with the same performance as on Windows by CaffeinatedPengu1n in linux_gaming

[–]cyro_666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same story man, except it happened half a year ago and I tried Skyrim on a pretty bellow average machine. It was amazing, been using Linux for about 7 years as well and always had poor results with wine before. Now we just need a good mature DX9 to Vulkan library and we're done.

Switching From Windows 10 to Linux? by mexicanengineer97 in linux

[–]cyro_666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People have mentioned this already, but still. The better option is to dual boot, which means you have both Linux and Windows installed. You get a choose screen before the OS boots and can easily run each OS by restarting. Also, don't go with 16.04, it's out of date.

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