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Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
13 Dec 2020 at 9:14 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: ikiruto
Step by Step:
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There is also a video guide available here.
https://videocardz.com/newz/cyberpunk-2077-gets-fps-boost-with-a-patch-for-amd-ryzen-cpus [External Link]
Or for lazy people like me, try these commands here below:

 
$ cp Cyberpunk2077.exe{,bak}
$ offset=$(xxd -u -p Cyberpunk2077.exe | tr -d '\n' | grep -ob 753033C9B8010000000FA28BC8C1F908 | cut -d: -f1); echo 743033C9B8010000000FA28BC8C1F908 | xxd -r -p -s $(($offset>>1)) - Cyberpunk2077.exe 

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
12 Dec 2020 at 6:41 pm UTC

Quoting: Linuxwarper
Quoting: LordDaveTheKind
Quoting: einherjar*cries in NVidia*
it works also for NVidia btw.

I have completed the tutorial and the first mission (2h of gameplay so far). No critical bugs or issues so far on Nvidia RTX 3090.
So basically you shed only one two tears:tongue: Hope it's fixed asap.
I have to correct myself: it works better than expected.

I have been able to record and post a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2J3C-YYpU [External Link]

(it is a fresh video, HD resolution is still under processing)

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
12 Dec 2020 at 12:26 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: einherjar*cries in NVidia*
it works also for NVidia btw.

I have completed the tutorial and the first mission (2h of gameplay so far). No critical bugs or issues so far on Nvidia RTX 3090.

Just the following remarks:

  • The graphics with no RayTracing is abismal

  • The framerate with no DLSS is criminal (20 FPS)


All the graphical settings (textures, shadows, etc.) can give me a gain of 3fps if I put everything in low. Honestly it is better than expected.

Online services don't work for me, and tbf I don't consider it a bug actually...

Here below a few screenshots:












Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
9 Dec 2020 at 10:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: mishugashuThis is the first time I've seen AMD ahead of Nvidia! The times are changing. Maybe next time I need to buy a GPU, it'll be AMD. What a world.
Honestly I was going to purchase an AMD GPU at this round, and I would have if I had found any in the stores.

By the time there will be back again a supply of AMD cards, CP2077 will be fully playable on Nvidia too.

Collabora put up their patches for Linux Kernel work to help Windows games on Linux
22 Nov 2020 at 12:15 am UTC

Quoting: scaineI'm currently running the latest 5.9 from mainline using the low-latency option. It works really well, but I think I might give Liquorix a shot, since it will update automatically, AND includes the fsync patches. Liquorix (https://liquorix.net [External Link] ) support PPA and AUR updates, which is pretty cool.

If you're on an Arch-based disto, apparently the Zen kernel is also worth a shot (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Kernels&oldid=407966#Official_packages [External Link] ).

Anyone know of any other reliable, solid options for kernel upgrades, particularly on an Ubuntu-based distro?
I don't know. I tried both of them but in my case they both introduced some stuttering and lagging in both the Desktop Environment and the games. Even with the most recent 5.9.0-9.1 release.

In my experience (and I have tried several kernel releases and flavours. A few threads in this forum can prove it) nothing has been better than recompiling the vanilla Linux kernel from a stable or LTS branch. Having the latest brand new bleeding-edge kernel release might be good for testing purposes, but for demanding both performance and reliability you have to stick with the stable releases.

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 Nov 2020 at 2:11 pm UTC

Quoting: kaiman
Quoting: LordDaveTheKindKingdom Come: Deliverance. Let me get this straight: the game is borked like hell, and not because of Proton.
Wonder if the latest patches introducing mod support did more harm than good there. I played it shortly after it came out and it was smooth sailing, except for some stability issues I attributed to certain DXVK versions.
It is more stable, excluding some crashes when going in prison or on fast travel. Mods (in particular the Auto-Save ones) are essential for playing it.

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 Nov 2020 at 11:41 am UTC

Quoting: Lord_JABALately I'm playing Horizon Zero Dawn - great, beautiful game.
The work done by the vkd3d-proton team has been outstanding. All gamers in this community (with the right Hw of course) should give it a go. I'm in doubt now on going for the platinum or not.

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 Nov 2020 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 4

Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Let me get this straight: the game is borked like hell, and not because of Proton. It is neither hard or unfair, it is just unpredictable and unreliable. But I still like it, just for the taste of a badly conceived GTA-style game set in medieval times, where the real challenge is to avoid any bug (in particular the ones never experienced by anyone else in the players community). The only thing I would save is the effort put by the actor casted as Henry.

Now the bug that is blocking me from going on is that Henry is dying of sleep, but as soon as he gets to the bed, a game message says "you have had already enough sleep". Wtf??? I'm working around on it by drinking energy restoring potions (ancient times Redbulls I presume) and never going to sleep lol.

Debian Linux is planning a gaming-focused event online in November
3 Oct 2020 at 11:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).

(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).
IMO Debian Stable is mostly for servers and stuff . . . things that are doing basic workloads and you want them to just keep doing it and never die. If you're going to be playing non-ancient games on a machine, it should probably be using at least Testing and maybe Unstable, which is still about as stable as most up-to-date distros.
I'm not sure about AMD Graphic Drivers, but for NVidia GPUs the best option for me has been Dabian Buster 10, as you can have a very few components at the very top-notch up to date (the GPU driver) but keeping the whole system and its core components (the compiler for instance) frozen to a reliable release, and get just security updates.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release
30 Sep 2020 at 10:49 pm UTC

Quoting: loothelionIt looks like Xpander's using MangoHud [External Link]
Didn't know about that. Thank you. I'll give it a try asap.