Building a new Gaming PC (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by colebrodine@midwest.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I'm planning on building a new gaming PC in the next couple of months. I haven't done so in about 7 years, so I'm a bit behind the times on hardware. Is there any special considerations you all would recommend when it comes to gaming on Linux? I already run Linux as my daily driver and have a home server, etc, so I'm mainly looking for suggestions regarding current hardware that I would want to consider for my new build.

I haven't done so before, but I'm interested in running Windows in a QEMU VM to avoid some of the pitfalls for certain multiplayer experiences in certain titles. If anybody has any experience with this also, I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks for any input you all have!

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[-] robolemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I think the current received wisdom on Linux gaming boils down mainly to three letters: AMD. As a company they’re “friendlier” to Linux for drivers and such.

That said, I’m running an 11th gen intel i7 and nvidia 3080 and not having any problems. I haven’t tried starfield yet but Baldur’s Gate 3 runs like a champ.

[-] boo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

In contrast I am having lot of problems with Baldurs gate 3 and new AMD 7600 card, their driver oss constantly causes kernel panic.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen some things about maybe stick to a 6000 series for now until AMD gets their 7000 series drivers worked out? Do you have any experience with a 6000 series card?

[-] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a 6600XT and have had zero issues with Ubuntu and Fedora.

[-] boo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Not really, just jumped from gtx 960 to 7600, hope they iron it out.

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