That’s what folks over here tell me, and you are most probably right. There is still one more issue scratching my head though: RayTracing performance on Cyberpunk 2077: It works great on high settings with stable 50 FPS minimum on my Windows 10 + Nvidia build, but it’s quite the opposite on this Nobara + AMD system. 5FPS and slowdowns are just unplayable. I expected the bad AMD performance being fixed by today. I think I should swap GPUs between both systems and test again.
Alrighty then: Now I have a reason to switch graphics cards and install Nobara on my other SSD. I bought a Radeon RX 7600 for this setup, because of AMD’s praised open-source drivers. My spare GPU is an RTX 3060, so I can actually test both worlds.
It started with conflicts between the preinstalled gnome extensions - namely the desktop icons broke other extensions, like Pop!_shell for window tiling. So I had to disable desktop icons.
My latest installed kernel (6.5.11) breaks screen detection - The resolution is stuck at 1024x768.
My PC gets stuck (probably on self test) after reboot or switching it on, after Nobara has shut down. Solution: Pull the power plug, wait 10 seconds, reconnect and turn it on.
I expect more to break with the next updates.
I’m currently struggling with Nobara and the growing amount of bugs with each new kernel update.
Otherwise I would have recommended that one, since it offers some great convenient features, like a graphical management tool for all sorts of Wine versions, which can be installed in parallel. The kernel supports fsync and is tuned for low latency. Game performance is decent and I also got all my games and launchers (native Linux and also Wine) working.
For the audio part, there is pipewire, which works like a charm. There is also a compatible flatpack for DSP/equalizer which I couldn’t find it on Ubuntu’s snap store: JamesDSP. Now, after some tuning, my rather flat-sounding headphones sound do super boomy.
I didn’t know, vanilla Wine had no Vulkan support. I took it for granted since I run on Proton GE.
This is not accurate at all. Germans don’t need breakfast. And now get back to work!
Since pipewire is the default in Nobara (I recently started with it), I hope I don’t need to care too much about it (fingers crossed!). What I want to achieve is a realistic feeling of the room accoustics in games. I recently noticed that in Cyberpunk 2077 (windows, with the xbox headset): I could close my eyes and still tell where I am in the game.
I’m not sure AptX is capable enough. In LowLatency mode, it may sound dull again. But higher bitrates come with too much latency.
I guess LLAC would be the codec to go, but I lack the experience with it.
Is there a reason why you chose the smaller X version over the default Barracuda? Was it just the price or did you expect any issues?
Maybe “Spatial audio” fits my description better than “surround sound”. I wasn’t quite sure whether additional processing is mandatory for realistic ingame sound. Back in the day (long long ago), EAX 4.0 was a huge improvement above direct sound. I guess that has changed, luckily!
Long story short: What I’m looking for is an immersive sound simulation for ingame environments, and I don’t like to lack behind proprietary solutions.
This place only unsafe for trolls. And that’s a good thing.
Thanks, and this will it be!
The kernel is heavily optimized for gaming and it has the latest AMD patches applied. Most gaming-related stuff comes pre-installed.
Would you recommend me getting an AMD GPU? Is the driver better under Linux?
I had a look on this and unfortunately, only comparable AMDs (RX 7600) exist in that size. I wish I could do an upgrade with my next card, but since I want to switch to a tiny “portable” PC case, I am limited to small GPUs. That’s why I’d like to try it first with the GPU I am currently runnning on (actually the only part I want to reuse from my current build, lol)
Thanks, I may give that old apart-falling piece a shot.
I was working on integrated Intel graphics most of the time.
AMD Radeon HD 8790M in a Dell Latitude, which seems like a predecessor to AMDs “professional” FireGL/FirePro series.
Back in 2016, a new version of X11 (shipping with the latest Linux distros) killed my AMD graphics because driver support was dropped and open source drivers were not available for my particular model.
I didn’t expect there were more Mac gamers than Linux gamers out there, especially on Steam.
The thing that suprises me in the headline: You can actually run steam and games on macOS?
BTRFS works great across all my drives under Nobara. Same applues when I access these drives from Ubuntu.
Steam also has no issues in my case. Even wine works line Intended.