Comment on Anon's PC works
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If not playing competitive, there’s very little reason to go latest and greatest. Just buy something with software support, or use Linux where support is practically guaranteed for at least a decade
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Any idea what? Wine/proton should abstract away all those issues
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wine/proton is specifically what doesn’t work.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month 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
Metz@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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
Metz@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Did you try cleaning your PC and replacing the thermal paste before upgrading? Linux struggles with CPU temperature