I know, lame post, but I wanted to say that Linux gaming has gotten soooo much better, to the point that I honestly think my games are running better than on Windows. I’ve played so many games, but notable ones are Halo: MCC, MS Flight Sim 2020, Satisfactory, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and right now I’m starting a full playthrough of Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is notorious even on Windows for being a pain because it’s such an old game. You have to install the 4gb patch, and even then it’s a bit rocky. Not on Linux though! I did have to install PhysX but I googled it and saw it was 2 buttons to install on Linux! Now it’s been rock solid and stable, with no crashes.

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn, but that bar is constantly getting lower! Exciting times!

  • VictorEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing the resource you followed to get PhysX to install on Linux?

    • ScrubblesOPEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      I’m using Lutris, and Wine is my runner. On my game I could see this button here, for Wine.

      Select the arrow and hit “winetricks”. Then in there it’s a bit convoluted, but

      • Install an Application
      • Cancel
      • Install a Windows DLL or Component
      • Select physx and go!
      • VictorEnglish
        4•5 months ago

        Lutris seems really cool. I couldn’t get it to work.

        I’m on Arch and I tried both the native package as well as the Flatpak version. None of them worked. Something going wrong when installing some shit in an automated installer, I dunno. I wish I could find a good guide. I’m usually handy with these things but I don’t understand the error messages, so…

        • @[email protected]English
          4•5 months ago

          I’m in the same boat. I installed Bazzite oh my desktop as well as on my Legion Go. Everything runs out of the box. Except Lutris.

          • VictorEnglish
            3•5 months ago

            I just don’t get it. 😔

          • @[email protected]English
            2•5 months ago

            I’ve been using Bazzite for about 2 months now (daily driver for about a month and a half) and Lutris came preinstalled for me. I’ve had zero problems using it, I have battle.net games and EA app (fuck that app BTW) games installed and it just works for me.

            Was it not preinstalled with your initial installation of Bazzite?

            • @[email protected]English
              2•5 months ago

              Nevermind. Found out it was a failure on my part. By default it does not show un-installed games. Because I had no games installed, it always showed no games. And I assumed it was broken.

              • @[email protected]English
                1•5 months ago

                Trial and error, I feel your pain. I’ve learned a lot since switching and I’m loving it tbh!

                Glad you got it figured out!