Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me?
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
First of all, what the hell is going on with your RAM configuration?
Your first stop should have been the protondb page for your game. Given that most other people report it as running out of the box, then the issue lies somewhere else.
Which proton versions have you tried? Since you have an Nvidia card, what is the driver revision? What desktop environment, and version of it are you using?
I hate to say it, but reinstalling your entire OS multiple times, without doing any troubleshooting, has been a waste of your time
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
whats going on with my ram configuration?
i tried using protondb several times, but it rarely if ever has worked with me, the tweaks people suggest i mean.
all between 9 to 5 on many games, sometimes proton ge too but i never noticed a difference when trying to use that one
whats a driver revision?
DE: cinnamon 6.2.9
i have done so much troubleshooting over these years that reinstalling or installing another distro became easier and quicker to do
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Usually people have only same size RAM, but otger configurations can work too. (I have 20GB of RAM running fine, fir example.)
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
do you think that may somehow be the cause of so many problems? or part of it?
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s unlikely to cause anything to outright fail, but it will certainly be creating bottlenecks and inefficiencies
FMT99@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unlikely. It won’t run optimally but it shouldn’t be the cause of crashes or bugs. If you’re not sure you can run a ram test (memtest.org)
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Each nvidia card works better or worse with different version releases of nvidia drivers. Older cards usually need smaller version numbers. Since you are running mint, all versions you need to test should be in the default repos. Try different drivers and see if you can find the right one for your card.
apt-cache search nvidiashould give you a list of options, which you can install with
apt-get install.Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ngl, id rather stick with what is recommended before i go through hundreds of slightly differently named drivers
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s usually only like 5 tracks. “What’s recommended” is nouveau, which works but not for gaming. It’s recommended because it’s open source and can do most things that the proprietary nvidia drivers can do. Nvidia is really bad at maintaining their drivers, and different drivers work better for different cards.
Nvidia sucks. Switch to AMD and never have a problem again. Or spend an hour testing each of the proprietary options maintained in the debian repos, and most likely find that at least one of them works. Until an update to the drivers or kernel comes along, and breaks it again, so you have to play around with driver versions and kernel versions to find a combo that works. That’s less likely to happen if you stick with a debian-based distro vs a bleeding-edge distro like arch.
And buy AMD for your next machine to send a message to nvidia that their driver support sucks!