Update: I installed CS:GO and it runs insanely smooth. Metro didnt start at all. I now have cycled through many compatibility options and tried proton experimental, latest and now linux runtime. Now it works on solid 60 fps!
Hi folks! I made it! I built a daily driver with Linux!
But I'm running into the first walls, which was expected but is still annoying.
So I bought a 3060ti which I got for a reasonable price and tried playing metro last light redux. Sub 10 fps. I'm pretty baffled atm. Have checked (and for sure, reddit was the first answer) but so far no dice. I changed from open source to proprietary driver, no changes either.
Is there a troubleshooting guide or something? Can I even guarantee my card runs on full capacity without windows? (sorry, I'm not used to linux desktop).
Are you sure your using the official (propriatary) drivers? Sometimes just installing the official drivers isn't enough and you still might be using the nouvau drivers. Run lspci -v find your gpu and check whats listed as the Kernel driver in use.
65:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: PNY GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66, NUMA node 0
Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
It looks to me as it would be working.
But now I have another problem: I installed CS:GO and have between 150 and 200 FPS on high. Looks like the 3060ti works after all. :) but now metro doesnt even start. If I hit play, it quickly cycles through start, cloud sync, running, stopped
This happened before. I then verified the game files and it worked again. Any idea what the issue is?
Metro might be running in DX12 mode. The translation layer to Vulkan from DX12 is not as good as the one from DX11 yet. So usually you get better compatibility and framerates by switching the game to DX11 or native Vulkan.
Thanks for answering but I have no idea how that works. Additionally, I got it working now. It is running at 60+ frames after I chose steam linux runtime in the compatibility options.
It should be a in-game menu option or a popup when launching the game. You might have clicked "always use this option" previously, then you need to reset that in the game's steam menu.
I have this exact GPU and can game everyday on my Linux computer with very good performance, so I am not worried for you, you will find a way to fix it. I don't know about this game in particular but for each game I install, I always check protondb website for other user experience on the game and copy past the commands other users recommend. Then I paste the command in steam settings for the game. Moreover I use feral gamemode which helps improving performances, and proton ge.