Hi all, I bought a gaming PC with the intention of installing Linux to play recent games. I chose AMD for the GPU because I know the drivers are more optimized on Linux.

After receiving and assembling my machine, I installed Fedora without any problem. I found a lot of software on Github to replace the proprietary software for my AIO and headphones. Everything worked the first time except… Steam! Unable to launch it, black window which restarted in a loop.

After searching on the internet, I found that it was enough to modify PrefersNonDefaultGPU on steam to solve my problem (but I understand that ordinary people do not want to bother with this kind of hack and prefer the windows experience that works out of the box).

Then I installed Cyberpunk and… well the game runs at 120fps in ultra, what more can I say… Oh yes, the keyboard preset is in Qwerty even though I have an azerty keyboard (sorry Baguette) and in the first hour of play, I was able to notice a bug in a rather disturbing shadow/light and in the drops of water on a windshield which appeared and disappeared in a strange way.

So with my €1500 machine I got a little upset… and I wanted to install Windows out of curiosity.

Installation is…complicated! No driver for my network card, a ton of software that I don’t need, in short, Windows…

I installed steam, launched Cyberpunk and… my keyboard is recognized, 120 fps too (I am offered raytracing which does not interest me and makes me lose fps but it is available) and in the first hour of play NONE bug.

So here I am, I hate Windows, but it runs my games better than Linux and I’m really lost. I’ve just discovered Nobara, I would have loved to try it but I’m tired of starting the first 3 hours of cyberpunk again and I’m convinced that I’ll have some graphical bugs with it.

(also another problem, there are too many Linux distributions, too much choice kills choice)

TDLD: I bought an expensive computer to play under Linux, but a few bugs made me reluctantly install Windows.

  • gaiussabinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    11 months ago

    Dunno bro everything works for me on mint. I also have higher frame rates and better stability. Getting Stable Diffusion working on my AMD card is probably the hardest thing i have had to do. Even that is three lines in the terminal now. You may need to dick around with proton settings and read the forums to find what Cyberpunk runs on best if you want to deal with the bug.

      • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I’m using Stable Diffusion on my 6000 series card and it works fine. Obviously a lot slower than Nvidia cards, but definitely usable.

        • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Is there an up do date installation instruction for it that doesn’t require some higher degrees in terminal magic? The last time I checked, which wasn’t too long ago, I just stopped bothering when reading halfway through.

          • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’ve been cheating a bit and just using EasyDiffusion. It’s just a shell script that runs and configures everything for you. It’s basically a portable installation that keeps everything in a nice neat folder. I have actually gone through the whole installation process before, and it can definitely be a slog with my limited experience.

            • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
              2·
              11 months ago

              Huh, that did actually work. Except that the download doesn’t like VPNs. I did get a potential performance warning though.

              MIOpen(HIP): Warning [SQLiteBase] Missing system database file: gfx1030_16.kdb Performance may degrade. Please follow instructions to install: https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/MIOpen#installing-miopen-kernels-package

              Edit: Is there a way to install extensions like ReActor? The wiki has a plugins section but that seems to be not helpful at all.

              • gaiussabinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                There is a line you need to change in one of the files so it looks for gfx1024 or whatever your card is. Its a pain.

              • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                I don’t recall getting that warning, but I did need to adjust a few things to get my GPU recognized. I haven’t had a chance to read too much about your message, but with a quick skim over the documentation it appears it just affects startup latency.

        • pelotron@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’ve been using it the last couple days on a 7800xt. It works but has been fairly unstable. Hopefully that’s just new hardware driver problems that will get sorted out eventually.

          • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Is it just in Stable Diffusion or in general? I’ve been happy with my 6800xt so far, but it’s always nice to know what’s available. I keep meaning to try it with the Arc A750 I have laying on the shelf, according to some benchmarks I’ve seen it’s better than my card at image generation.

            • pelotron@midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              In general, unfortunately. I’ve had a couple instances of my machine hard locking up, game crashes causing the entire desktop session to restart, and have had to try many different kernels.

              • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Hmm, that’s not good. Good to know though. I see it launched 4 months ago, so I hope it’ll get a good bit better! It’s definitely a major downside to having a cutting edge system.