Linux users with NVIDIA cards beware!

[WarBaby2]

This game does not work with the current, propitiatory drivers (535.x), only with older ones (up to version 530.x) and even then, those drivers have a bug where the framerate is CPU bound, so it hardly goes over 30fps even on 40 series cards. Valve informed NVIDIA about this, but a fix has yet to emerge...

For more information visit: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7064

[Red River]

this is AMD game so works best with those GPU/CPU
I'm surprised it can even work on this old OS because it's not listed as supported.
does it have built in dx12 / windows emulator or something?

[Fuinelen]

Originally posted by Red River:

this is AMD game so works best with those GPU/CPU
I'm surprised it can even work on this old OS because it's not listed as supported.
does it have built in dx12 / windows emulator or something?

nah ... Linux is soooooo old, we have *Kilobytes* of mem, but each of us has an entire town to house the vacuum tubes ... it hasn't been updated in decades ...

/facepalm

[Trahloc]

Originally posted by Red River:

this is AMD game so works best with those GPU/CPU
I'm surprised it can even work on this old OS because it's not listed as supported.
does it have built in dx12 / windows emulator or something?

The game is supported by Valve on Linux where it works perfectly fine except for the aforementioned nvidia gpu driver issues. Also perhaps you should not join into threads where you obviously know absolutely nothing at all?

[Gaz]

i'm sure nvidia will get right on this issue, which affects about 0.1% of users...

[Inejiro]

The 535 drivers are useless anyways as Optimus switching does not work with them, only with 525.

[TigerWild]

I can verify this. I am running Nobara 38. I built a system for a friend, identical to mine, save for he has a AMD 7900 XTX, while I am using the NVIdia 1080Ti. At first lauch it was running on 1080Ti. Then I shut my PC down, swapped to his card and did further testing, I used his card in my rig and removed all NVIDIA drivers (bad call btw). The game ran flawless with no issues. When I switched back to the 1080 Ti I updated drivers and came up to the NVIDIA 3.535 (piles of ^&(*) drivers. Now I cannot even launch the game as it says the 1080Ti is not the minimum required. GAH.

[TigerWild]

If this game can run on a steam deck, WTH are the NVIDIA drivers so much crap that a 1080Ti cant run it... please fix your drivers!!!! I cannot wait for the open source version of NVIDIA drivers to come out already!

[𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣]

Knowing nvidia and their priorities, this might take months lol.

[david]

Serious question: why would any sane human being torture himself for eternity using linux on desktop? Its absolute trash, no matter the distro. Tried it many times over the years. Unfinished, hacky trash. You always find yourself googling, changing.conf files or inputting some commands into terminal for hours, cause boy, you will run into a ton of problems if you do something else than just browsing youtube.

[𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣]

For me personally, lack of control, bloat and spyware that comes with Windows. I'd take ♥♥♥♥ like this any day instead of using Windows ever again.

[EzRyder]

so you cant use the latest drivers for Linux? (im on windows so no idea)
if you can i would try going forward rather than backward, the latest nvidea drivers are 537.13 dated Aug 22 (im actually still on some 5.36.x version which is what caught my attention here)

"The game is supported by Valve on Linux"
maybe send support to steam?
the game is not supported for linux by the game developer or it would be listed on the store page

[𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣]

nvidia drivers got different version numbers, we are actually on the latest one, nvidia just gotta wake up...and I gotta switch to AMD for my next card, whenever that is

[Fuinelen]

Originally posted by david:

Serious question: why would any sane human being torture himself for eternity using linux on desktop? Its absolute trash, no matter the distro. Tried it many times over the years. Unfinished, hacky trash. You always find yourself googling, changing.conf files or inputting some commands into terminal for hours, cause boy, you will run into a ton of problems if you do something else than just browsing youtube.

said like someone with no clue at all.

[liverlips]

Originally posted by david:

Serious question: why would any sane human being torture himself for eternity using linux on desktop? Its absolute trash, no matter the distro. Tried it many times over the years. Unfinished, hacky trash. You always find yourself googling, changing.conf files or inputting some commands into terminal for hours, cause boy, you will run into a ton of problems if you do something else than just browsing youtube.

Mostly solved these days, try it. Popos + steam flatpak = just works. Enable experimental mode and pretty much all your library works.

Except for this nvidia driver problem - just use the older version until it gets fixed.

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣:

nvidia drivers got different version numbers, we are actually on the latest one, nvidia just gotta wake up...and I gotta switch to AMD for my next card, whenever that is

I switched over. Nvidia was too high. I was nervous at first b/c of all the AMD driver claims and I've been Nvidia since they bought out Voodoo but so far so good. I'll never go back. The software that comes with AMD cards blows Nvidia's ancient control panel nonsense out of the water. Nvidia does have better AA overall though. Also DLSS looks better than FSR 1 and 2 IMO but that could change. FXAA is Nvidia only as well.