Michael

Last night was the first time I had some genuine problems with gaming under Linux. I've got a laptop with an Nvidia 1660 TI and an AMD APU. I got it working so that Mass Effect Legendary Edition ran using the Nvidia GPU.

But, for the first time since switching to Linux for Gaming full time, I got freezes ingame. Initially it happened every ~2 minutes, making the game unplayable. I then switched off Vsync, and now it's at a playable level, but still freezes occasionally.

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Dec 22, 2024 at 2:20pmWeb
Show threadMichaelDec 22, 2024

That is to say: We came a really far way. mostly thanks to Valve and the Wine project. And this is on my hybrid GPU laptop. No idea whether that makes some sort of problem.

On my desktop at home, with an older AMD GPU, I never had any issue with Mass Effect under Linux.

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Show threadExellentDec 22, 2024
@mmeier just out of curiosity, what distro are you using? Im seeing up my gaming rig with poOs ATM, but wondering what other people choose...
Show threadMichaelDec 22, 2024
@Exellent I'm running the laptop I've got problems with on Fedora, and my desktop where it runs nicely is Gentoo, but in both cases I'm running Steam through Flatpaks.
Show threadExellentDec 22, 2024
@mmeier I tried a fedora (bazzite) my self yesterday, and broke the hole system within an hour, to be unusable / unrecoverable 😅. It's not by flavor I guess :)
Show threadmikeTesteLinuxDec 22, 2024
@mmeier Check if its graphic hybrid, cause me some trouble with my old laptop (but that generally result by a black screen at launch of the game)
Show threadMichaelDec 22, 2024
@mikeTesteLinux It's definitely on hybrid graphics. My desktop runs on the integrated GPU, while I launch the game (or steam, rather) through the right-click menu's "Run on dedicated GPU" option.