Comment on Anon's PC works

ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Linux is actually a problem area here, because various crucial libraries for running games have limited support for hardware that old. I tried for a long time to get it working with stuff from 2012, my problems disappeared after upgrading my cpu recently. Something with Vulkan compatibility I think.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any idea what? Wine/proton should abstract away all those issues

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wine/proton is specifically what doesn’t work.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You get a vulkan error that sounds the same if you have the wrong GPU drivers, some older cards need a different driver eg radeon vs amdgpu

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  • Metz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is only really a problem for CPUs one would consider today as ancient like a Pentium 3 from 1999 because it doesn’t have e.g. SSE2 support. Everything after that should work without any problems.

    With older or slower CPUs performance may suffer, of course, but that is not a compatibility question.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Everything after that should work without any problems.

      Well it doesn’t, again, 2012, gives errors and doesn’t run not performance, idk what else to say except maybe to ask if you have tested this yourself

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      • Metz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Then it was an software problem. It can’t be the CPU. unless you were using something very old. maybe the problem got solved when you reinstalled the system after you got your new CPU.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did you try cleaning your PC and replacing the thermal paste before upgrading? Linux struggles with CPU temperature

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