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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoLinux 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.
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.
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
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.
maybe the problem got solved when you reinstalled the system after you got your new CPU.
I didn’t reinstall the OS after getting the new CPU, but had done so multiple times before that.
It can’t be the CPU. unless you were using something very old.
You’re welcome to elaborate on your reasoning for this but I get the impression you haven’t tested it yourself, and I am saying, based on my experience, that you are wrong about it. Why exactly you’re wrong, I don’t know, but it’s wrong.
My point is this: someone with 10+ year old hardware should not be expecting to be able to run most games on linux because it likely won’t work. If you’re not yourself playing games on such a system you shouldn’t be advising people otherwise, because you don’t know.
Did you try cleaning your PC and replacing the thermal paste before upgrading? Linux struggles with CPU temperature
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
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It is a 3060 but I confirmed this is not a GPU issue because replacing the CPU/mobo fixed it.