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    64 points breve | 24 comments | 04 Dec 25 10:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source | bottom
    1. tietjens ◴[08 Dec 25 15:35 UTC] No.46193454[source]▶
    When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.
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    2. brettermeier ◴[08 Dec 25 15:36 UTC] No.46193466[source]▶
    ~30+ years
    3. marginalia_nu ◴[08 Dec 25 15:39 UTC] No.46193521[source]▶
    I don't even know when I ran into a game that didn't run off Steam on Linux. There's some fiddling gamescope on Wayland to get them to perform well, but most just run out of the box with great performance.

    The stuff that doesn't work typically don't work because kernel level anticheats, so a few competitive titles but even in that space many titles still run.

    4. everdrive ◴[08 Dec 25 15:40 UTC] No.46193527[source]▶
    Wait no longer! Per capita I doubt 5% of games use kernel-level anticheat. Almost anything else runs pretty painlessly.
    5. embedding-shape ◴[08 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46193570[source]▶
    https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

    > Top 10 - 20% Platinum - 30% Gold - 10% Silver - 30% Bronze - 10% Borked

    I'd probably say at least Gold is "reliably click and play without fiddling", so probably we're around 20-50% there right now, if we consider the top 10 games on Steam. Once you start considering top 100 or top 1000, it starts to look a lot better. But still, mainstream games are lagging seemingly.

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    6. windsurfer ◴[08 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46193572[source]▶
    It has been my experience that this is currently the case. I haven't had to even open protondb or search for a workaround in over a year. The only titles I know that don't work are a handful of multiplayer games that have intentionally disabled linux support.
    7. fadeddata ◴[08 Dec 25 15:43 UTC] No.46193576[source]▶
    I use Debian 13 with an Nvidia 50 series card and I’m able to play games fine. Currently playing ARC Raiders and it works great.

    I think there are still some common anti cheats that don’t work. But single player has been flawless for me.

    8. lawn ◴[08 Dec 25 15:43 UTC] No.46193577[source]▶
    I'd wager that 95% of Steam titles does run on Linux. Admittedly some big and popular games use invasive anti-cheat that's not supported, but they're less than 5%.
    9. tapoxi ◴[08 Dec 25 15:43 UTC] No.46193579[source]▶
    I'd just go AMD. The drivers there are much more mature due to Google and Valve contributions, and the performance of an 9070 XT is great while being cheaper than the equivalent 5070 Ti. FSR4 is a solid competitor to DLSS and works in any game that supports FSR 3.1.

    Anti-cheats won't work, I keep a Windows drive just for Battlefield 6.

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    10. jwcooper ◴[08 Dec 25 15:44 UTC] No.46193591[source]▶
    You can do that now, and for at least the last year.

    Very few games don't work anymore, and most that don't are using kernel level anti-cheat or are generally hostile to users anyways (Fortnite and Destiny 2 could work, but they actively block Linux).

    I main Fedora with an Nvidia 3080 and haven't had issues for quite some time now.

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    11. Scramblejams ◴[08 Dec 25 15:46 UTC] No.46193639[source]▶
    Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh.

    I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

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    12. windsurfer ◴[08 Dec 25 15:47 UTC] No.46193651[source]▶
    I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.
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    13. alias_neo ◴[08 Dec 25 15:51 UTC] No.46193697[source]▶
    I got fed up about a week ago and ditched my Nvidia GPU for a 9070XT.

    I run CachyOS and have been having a nightmare of a time on Wayland with my 3D Printer slicer and other tools I use my computer for being unusable.

    The only thing that has ever kept me on Nvidia all these years is that they have been killing AMD performance wise for gaming.

    The 9070XT is easily performant enough for the gaming I'm doing at the moment, and I can finally ditch the last major headache I've had in two and a half decades of being a Linux user - NVIDIA drivers - good riddance.

    I don't play online games other than Helldivers 2 (so anti-cheat is a non-issue) which is working just fine at 70-80FPS max settings in 4K. Also getting good performance with RT off playing Ghostwire in 4K with settings as high as I can get them while staying above 60 FPS with Freesync.

    EDIT: 9070XT seems to have a bit of headroom too I got the Asus PRIME OC version; Using LACT I upped the power limit from the stock 317W to 340W and undervolted by -100mv (YMMV on this value) and can get a decent chunk of extra performance out of it.

    14. marginalia_nu ◴[08 Dec 25 15:52 UTC] No.46193712[source]▶
    Not seeing any issues with my NVidia card.
    15. Scramblejams ◴[08 Dec 25 15:52 UTC] No.46193726{3}[source]▶
    That’s awesome! But not everyone’s library is the same, so YMMV. I regularly see problems with flight sims that are Nvidia-specific, for example.
    16. kachapopopow ◴[08 Dec 25 15:57 UTC] No.46193798[source]▶
    I have an nvidia card on catchyos with catchyos proton and I have not ran into a single game that does not run, well ok some only walk, but that's also a problem on AMD.

    I am excluding games that rely on a kernelmode anticheat.

    17. antonyh ◴[08 Dec 25 16:31 UTC] No.46194288[source]▶
    I can run 99% on Linux + AMD + X11, on Ubuntu 24. The only problematic one is Witcher 3 which insists on Wayland which breaks everything else. Even the UT5 titles work well enough, but then again our gaming is not your gaming and you might be more demanding that we are.

    I'm trying to recall how NVidia behaved for games, but my daily driver is an old 1050 Ti that's been rock solid for years now, also X11.

    Maybe the problem is Wayland not NVidia?

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    18. lacoolj ◴[08 Dec 25 17:14 UTC] No.46194875[source]▶
    I play everything in Ubuntu on my 4080

    From CS2 (native) to the Final Fantasy XV demo (not native) and everywhere in between

    19. nickv ◴[08 Dec 25 21:14 UTC] No.46197737[source]▶
    Games I've played on my Arch Linux desktop with a 4090 in the past few months: Clair Obscur, Disco Elysium, Outer Worlds, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk, Dispatch, Silent Hill f, FFVII Rebirth. I haven't had a single issue with any of these games. What games do you think will struggle? I can give them a shot if I own then and let you know how they do.
    20. morshu9001 ◴[09 Dec 25 00:06 UTC] No.46199515[source]▶
    Gold isn't really play without fiddling. Like look at BeamNG or AOE2DE
    21. senectus1 ◴[09 Dec 25 00:56 UTC] No.46199975[source]▶
    same with a 4070 ti S on fedora

    no issues.

    22. cyberrock ◴[09 Dec 25 10:08 UTC] No.46203267[source]▶
    I've been using 30s and 40s just fine with both nvidia and nvidia-open so every time I see this I don't really understand what card or game we're talking about.

    On the other hand when I tried a 6xx0 XT I always ran into an infamous "ring gfx timeout" GPU crash with certain applications on WINE [0]. Ended up giving that card to a cousin.

    [0] Examples: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/rant-ring-gfx-0-0-0-timeout-... https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/amdgpu-ring-gfx-0-0-0-timeou...

    23. graynk ◴[09 Dec 25 11:22 UTC] No.46203650[source]▶
    Kinda now. That's what I've been doing for a while now. I have a PC though, not a laptop. Running CachyOS with 4070Ti, GNOME with Wayland. Even VR works
    24. mx7zysuj4xew ◴[09 Dec 25 23:06 UTC] No.46211969[source]▶
    Most likely Wayland, I don't recall many of the problems occuring before that