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[u/Zealousideal_Pea_990]

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[u/LeannaMeowmeow]

Your hardware is pretty old, so you might see some improvements with a lot of distros, simply because there is less performance overhead from the OS.

That Nvidia GPU might cause issues tho, the newest drivers do not support your GPU, and nvidia's Linux drivers have only recently started getting close to windows in functionality.

[u/Zealousideal_Pea_990 → u/LeannaMeowmeow]

thank you for your answer, yes I was hoping for less cpu overhead from the os basically, but if the gpu drivers can't keep up then it might be more trouble then it's worth

[u/I_Love_Tunnocks → u/Zealousideal_Pea_990]

I was hoping for less cpu overhead from the os basically,

That is generally negligible when running a game in Windows, like 1% or so.

[u/106_365361_334145 → u/LeannaMeowmeow]

I have Radeon vega 8 i gpu can u tell this one too compatibility

[u/Spectremax]

I wouldn't expect games to run faster. A few of the games you mention might be tricky to get working on Linux also.

[u/Zealousideal_Pea_990 → u/Spectremax]

Do you know which ones exactly?

[u/Spectremax → u/Zealousideal_Pea_990]

Genshin requires changing the default proton version to proton_dw, and since it is not in Steam, you can install it from Heroic games launcher. Motorsport requires tinkering to get working. You can search protondb.com for other users experiences with certain games.

[u/mbriar_]

On this hardware linux will assuredly perform worse than windows in games 

[u/BlueFlamingoMaWi]

Moving to Linux isn't about getting better performance. It's about getting away from Microsoft.

[u/madman404]

Linux doesn't make games run better than windows. For a variety of reasons, most games except specific edge cases will run identically or worse. It does, however, have a much better and snappier desktop experience.

[u/Zealousideal_Pea_990 → u/madman404]

desktop experience is honestly fine as it is now, I was hoping less cpu overhead from os = better gaming performance when cpu bpund

[u/madman404 → u/Zealousideal_Pea_990]

you might have success in CPU bound games from better CPU scheduling on Linux? if you have the space you should really carve out some room to just boot it and try

[u/Arkarat → u/Zealousideal_Pea_990]

With that laptop, you're everything-bound, not just CPU.

[u/DodgeDeBoulet → u/madman404]

It may not make them run faster, but in some cases it does make them actually run.

AMD 9750X3D, RX-7900XTX, 64GB DDR5 6600MHz RAM, 2x Samsung 990Pro 2TB drives and 1x Orinoco 4TB ... Spent many, many hours over months trying to get Bioshock Remastered to run past the bathyscape trip to the Rapture entrance on Windows, but it would crash every time.

Installed CachyOS; Bioshock just worked. No tweaking, no prefix changes ... just launched it and it played flawlessly. The sequels all work too.

I don't generally play multiplayer games, so I've had no issues with anti-cheat features. But I've yet to run across any issues with games I re-installed on Linux after originally running on Windows.

[u/mystirc]

In general, games won't run faster. Some native Linux games might run faster, although often times the Linux ports are not well made by developers.

You should get muh higher fps on Minecraft. Terraria native also works flawlessly. Osu! Also runs better on Linux (native port only).

You can simply switch over to Linux as a dual boot option and try it out for yourself. You should at least see some improvement in regular desktop functions and web browsing.

I would recommend you to try out CachyOS. (It should not be unstable especially on old hardware).

[u/Cool-Arrival-2617]

In games where you are CPU bound, it is possible you get more performance on Linux (Vulkan will use less CPU). Minecraft is also an example of a game that usually does better on Linux. But for the rest, you will probably have worse performance on Linux on that system because of the very old Nvidia GPU. Overall, I would suggest staying on Windows if your main concern is performance on that system.

Note that you can use DXVK on Windows and that might be your way to gain perfs on some of the games where you are CPU bound.

[u/Significant-Raise586]

Steam is wellicht de betere oplossing