So after one of my recent comments about if Linux is ready for gaming, I decided to pick-up a new Intel based wifi adapter (old one was broadcom and the drivers on fedora sucked and would drop connection every few minutes).
So far everything is great! Performance wise I can usually run every game about one tier higher graphically (med -> high) with the same or better performance than on Windows. This is on an rx 5700 and an ultrawide.
Bazzite is running great as always. Still getting used to the immutability of the system as I usually use Arch btw, but there are obviously workarounds to that.
Overall I’m still getting used to the Steam “processing vulkan shaders” pretty much every time a game updates, but it’s worth it for the extra performance. Now I’m 100% Linux for my gaming between my Steamdeck and PC.
Turning it off just pushes the shader cashe-ing to runtime. You might have micro stutters, but it’s temporary as things get cashed as you play.
yep, I’m aware. I just haven’t observed* any compilation stutters - so in that sense I’d rather keep it off and save the few minutes (give or take) on launch
*Now, I’m sure the stutters are there and/or the games I’ve recently played on linux haven’t been susceptible to them, but the tradeoff is worth it for me either way.
If you’re using AMD, you probably have ACO compilation which tends to be much faster than LLVM.
For me I use pre-compilation + ACO + DXVK Async so it compiles and cache super quickly.
amd cpu, but nvidia gpu, so as far as I’d understand, not using ACO then?
Correct. Your GPU is probably just really fast.
NVK is going to be killer on your system.