Jambalaya

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Jambalaya,

I use Linux at work, so I am a least familiar with how to tinker with it, but it just can’t seem to find the right settings to get things running smoothly. I can’t imagine a different distro would be any different.

Jambalaya,

Interesting. What issues are there with Nvidia? I was able to get the kernal drivers installed without issue.

Jambalaya,

It’s a wireless Logitech with a little USB dongle. It works from the bios so I wasn’t sure what was up with that.

Jambalaya,

Thanks for the reply.

My main issue is stuttering with baldur’s gate 3 and elden ring, both performing worse than their windows equivalent installations. Also I got HDR working in the desktop with KDE plasma, but the option just isn’t available in games.

Finally, the brightness on my monitor seems to be all over the place.

For now I plan on keeping Linux on one of my drives (maybe try another distro, or just stick to less demanding games) and using Windows for AAA games.

Jambalaya,

Funny enough, helldivers was a game I didn’t have a problem with haha

Jambalaya,

The stuttering is probably the compatibility layer, it doesn’t do it in helldivers, for instance. So I think it’s game specific

Thanks for the Hdr link. I have enabled it for desktop but didn’t realize steam was different.

For the brightness, HDR is enabled, but it seems like it “forgets” what brightness is supposed to be until I wiggle the slider. And every time I boot the pc the brightness needs to be at a different number to match my non HDR monitor. Probably just growing pains with a beta feature, I would guess.

Jambalaya,

Are you sharing steam library with windows? Why would you have an ntfs partition?

Jambalaya,

Thanks for the recommendations everyone! I plan on keeping Linux on my second drive to continue playing around with it, but my gaming will probably go back to Windows. Might give bazzite or popos a try next.

Jambalaya,

Not an external drive, just my second nvme

Jambalaya,

Yes I am using KDE mainly because gnome felt too mac os to me. Also KDE supports HDR (somewhat).

Is there a way to change distro without losing steam installs?

Jambalaya,

Lol

EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com)

There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....

Jambalaya,

I don’t think these games require the EA launcher.

Jambalaya,

Can confirm at least on the C&C bundle there is no EA app requirement

Jambalaya,

Did it arrive on gamepass yet?

Jambalaya,

What did you have against those games? Dos2 is one of the greatest CRPGs ever made in its own right.

Jambalaya,

The story in bg3 is much more complex, well-written, and varied than dos2, but the combat feels similar (honestly might give the edge to Dos2 for combat). I love bg3, but if you didn’t like dos then it may just not be for you.

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