Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don't end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.
One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the "fine details" of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure
Yes, you need closed source Nvidia drivers. That’s a pretty heavily discussed topic. Basically, it’s because Nvidia refuses to open source their drivers. They’ve started open sourcing some components, which is nice, for sure, but not enough to game on. I buy AMD video cards specifically because they work really well on Linux without any work at all.
I’m surprised you’re seeing issues on Hogwarts Legacy though. My wife and I have been playing it over the last few months on two different machines both with Bazzite and haven’t had any issues at all. We don’t use Nvidia cards, so it might be an issue with Nvidia’s drivers.
Same, AMD is where it's at for now if you penguin.
Same. I’ve been avoiding NVIDIA for years now, and haven’t regretted it yet. However, some people say that NVIDIA divers are good now, but I have my doubts about it. Seeing posts like this one just reinforces my confirmation bias.
Jap, I have a laptop with an NV dGPU and it's still a bit hit or miss. And the perf penalty VS Windows is quite steep whereas in the red corner it's pretty margin of error in most cases.
Are you using FOSS divers or the proprietary ones? How about power management, suspend, wake up etc?
Proprietary blob.
edit: there's good advice in the comments for this post.
OK, thanks.
Based on those comments, it still sounds pretty rough. Are those the worst-case scenario, or should all Nvidia users expect that sort of struggle?
Its was fine for a couple fof months but the 575 broke everything for me. The 580 did not change the status quo so I just reverted to 570. 555 worked fine so it's a last nuclear option. You'd think the first company in history to hit 5TUSD cap would have a competent driver team but, here we are... It's a shitshow. In the eternal words of Linus "fuck you nvidia".
I only hope that people who still think that Nvidia drivers on Linux are an old issue that's been solved ages ago, see this post and this comment. It got slightly better, but the problem never went away. Yet, anyway.
The post where the user is missing proprietary multimedia codecs, unrelated to NVIDIA drivers or the comment by the person decrying the problems had by NVIDIA users despite not using NVIDIA cards?
What do you mean "unrelated to NVIDIA drivers"? It's literally the first sentence of OP's post (emphasis mine):
They did say the word driver, yes.
That is in no way evidence that their current problem is a problem with their gpu driver.
Inside the word install is the implication that they installed and configured lot of things in addition to the driver. Considering that the game launches but fails to play some multimedia file it’s incredibly unlikely to be a low level problem like an incorrect driver. This is typically a missing proprietary codec or library inside of the wine environment.
Honestly I’ve had zero issues with nvidia on Wayland for about a year now, before that there were some issues, but it seems to be fine now! Maybe I’m just lucky.
I don't have any real issue either. Have a rtx 4070 card. Or... Well... There was some issues playing darktide on anything but the lowest settings for some reason but other than that its been good.
Note that i mostly play smaller/indie games with very few exceptions.
I had the Darktide problem but I think disabling upscaling fixed the performance/stability issue.
But on closed source drivers, right?
Yes the proprietary drivers.
I read this a lot but I’ve been using nvidia-open, on Arch so I’m not running a LTS distro or anything, for over a year with no breaking issues.
It’s especially annoying in threads where someone is having a technical issue and as soon as they say they have an nvidia card you’ll see a bunch of people decide that it’s a driver issue.
Their issue is that they’re using Valve’s Proton which is missing some commonly used but proprietary video codecs. Using GE-Proton will ensure that they have the correct software to play videos.
I use Valve’s Proton and don’t have this issue. That’s not it.
The parts of Nvidia’s drivers that they’ve released as open source are not enough to game on. You have to add additional code to actually be able to game, whether it’s community drivers or Nvidia’s drivers.