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Sure you did, Microsoft. Sure you did... (media.scored.co)
posted 7 months ago by VolanteEternity on scored.co (+1 / -0 / +64Score on mirror )
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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
I have an Nvidia GPU in my 2-year-old Lenovo laptop, and I've had great success running Nobara Linux, and a few other gaming specific distros. NVIDIA drivers in general have gotten much easier to deal with over the last year, and as long as you're distro has a way to install them as part of the initial install, or a guided method to add them post install, it ends up being pretty painless in most situations, as long as your card is 10 series or newer.
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revtreynine on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Yeah it's just quite a bit worse than Windows for DX 12 games especially leveraging Ray Tracing, while AMD can be faster. If you play mostly DX 9-11 games Linux is actually faster on any make GPU and it even is on Windows with DXVK. The reason AMD is much better is it is more open, Steamdeck leverages AMD and the community can contribute a lot more than Nvidia which is much more closed. Nvidia just hasn't felt the need to truly go all in on supporting it yet. Adoption rates get better all the time though so I expect that might change soon.

Even on my Win gaming machine I am constantly using DXVK's DX 9 and 11 dll's and dropping it in non DX 12 games. It just runs them better. Off the top of my head Star Wars Fallen Order stuttered way less on my 4090 with it. DX 9-11 CPU threading and memory management is just such garbage that Vulkan layers are superior.

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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
All true. Closed source NVIDIA drivers tend to be more stable for me, so here's hoping that the open ones catch up.
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