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[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have no problem playing games on Linux. Currently playing Baldur's Gate 3. Only thing I had to was turn on compatibility in the steam settings.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Ugh, that's too much work. I'm going back to Winblows

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm playing Hogwarts Legacy and needed to tune one system setting to fix occasional crashes. That's it, and that's the most trouble I've had in a few years.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which one? Maybe it can help my audio issue who brings random audio glitches

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it was increasing vm.max_map_count. I had some weird glitches and it would crash after an hour or so, and this seems to have fixed it.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Arch Linux already incremented vm.max count in a recent update, it seems fixed using these launch options: DXVK_MEMORY_LIMIT_MB=14384 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 gamemoderun %command%

With latest Proton-GE

[–] Saurok@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mind me asking you which distro you use? I've tried running BG3 on Linux Mint and I can't seem to get the game to ever load into the world. I get all the way to the in-game menu and into the loading screen after that and then it hangs and crashes. Every time. I've tried using a couple different versions of Proton, tried out a few different versions of Nvidia graphics drivers... No luck yet.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It runs fine on Linux Mint Debian under proton for me.