Current status of Intel Arc on Linux : linux

[–] darcmage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd recommend checking out the phoronix Intel forum. We could really use more competition in this space.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is good advice.

I haven't been following progress on Xe/Arc linux drivers, but my impression from a few months ago was that they were still a bit rough for gaming. Maybe things are improving? Intel already has an open-source driver, so they seem well positioned to (eventually) compete in this space.

If build quality matters to you, this Gamers Nexus teardown might be worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N371iMe_nfA

[–] r0mas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/intel-linux/1389340-intel-arc-graphics-a750-a770-quick-linux-competition-with-the-radeon-rx-7600

Looks like the drivers still need more development for the GPU be worth the money (at least for the a770) :(

[+] coldhotman@nrsk.no 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always thought Nvidia was the default choice, but maybe not for Linux?

[+] coldhotman@nrsk.no 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] 2dollarsim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may as well. Proton on Steam is really effective and with GE I haven't had a game be unplayable for a while. I don't really care for modern loot box gambling simulator paid public alpha type games though, so YMMV.

[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, because Foza Horizon 5 was one of the first games to come out for the Steam Deck I bought it for my PC thinking it would run well. Turns out it won't run with the current Linux Nvidia drivers and I had to get a refund.

[–] 2dollarsim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Laaaaaame. At least you managed to get a refund!

I take it you're aware of protondb and tried the suggestions there? There's a few people reporting recently that it works fine for them. Maybe recent updates have fixed issues

[–] cdombroski@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Nvidia was also the default choice for linux until about 5 years ago. Both companies used to only have closed source drivers and AMD's was not very good. The situation got better when AMD rewrote/open sourced their linux driver in 2017

[–] FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Arc won't have proper game support until it's using the Xe driver (not until at least kernel 6.5) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will not be supported with Xe, however.

If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn't require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.

There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don't really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.

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