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Wish me luck. I'm a little unsure if it'll work well. I have an ancient GPU (Nvidia GTX 970) and hope it'll be compatable.

Processor		AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core (12 CPUs) Processor 3.20 GHz
Installed RAM		32.0 GB
Graphics Card		NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) (actually 3.5GB due to hardware defect)
BaseBoard Manufacturer	ASRock
BaseBoard Product	AB350 Pro4

This system is getting old; nearly a decade here. Pretty soon I have to start thinking about upgrading. At a minimum, I should try and upgrade the video card when I can.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

OK the issue with the monitors is odd. It only likes it when the ultrawide is plugged into display port for some reason. Once I did that it detected it the monitor. I think it could be a thing with the 970. Once the kids go to bed I'll give some games a shot.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

I'm on Linux Mint and I have also noticed that it feels like it doesn't play as nicely with any monitors as windows did. Just one of those quirks I guess

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Make sure to check ProtonDB if it seems like something isn't working. Most of the time, defaulting to Experimental is fine, but occasionally some stuff will work better on an older version or with Proton-GE for games that just came out. You can still Proton-GE using ProtonUpQt which is installed by default in Bazzite.